THE PLACE OF human rights in society is far from being settled. Distinguishing the
prescriptions and idealism of human rights from their actual empirical properties as a social …

This article addresses what is increasingly perceived as a crisis of human rights. While
contemporary critiques of human rights address a diverse set of challenges and issues, this …

This paper aims to assess progress toward the objectives of the Copenhagen Declaration
on Social Development (referred to as “the Declaration”) and Programme of Action by using …

Chou En-lai was allegedly asked what he thought were the results of the French Revolution.
He supposedly replied:" It's too early to tell." Adam Hochschild's prize-winning study of King …

The introduction of the Human Rights Act has led to an explosion in books on human rights,
yet no sustained examination of their history and philosophy exists in the burgeoning …

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PERSPECTIVES, NEW REALITIES EDITED BY ADAMANTIA POLLIS AND PETER SCHWAB …

Transitional justice is in crisis. Assumptions have turned into questions and core elements of
the paradigm have been subjected to sustained critique. However, there is much less …

Inspired by feminist legal theory and postcolonial literal studies this article interrogates the
'transitional justice discourse'and coins critiques which re-examine the discipline's key …

The plethora of literature produced over the past decade in response to the perceived failure
of the human rights project to deliver results for billions of people living in …

In recent years, human rights have come under fire, with the rise of political illiberalism and
the coming to power of populist authoritarian leaders in many parts of the world who contest …