Title Can we still afford human rights? : critical reflections on universality, proliferation and costs / edited by Jan Wouters, Koen Lemmens, Thomas Van Poecke and Marie Bourguignon

Published Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, Massachusetts, USA : Edward Elgar Publishing Limited, 2020

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Description 1 online resource Series Leuven global governance series Leuven global governance. Contents The interdependence of issues relating to the universality, proliferation and costs of human rights / Thomas Van Poecke, Marie Bourguignon, Jan Wouters and Koen Lemmens -- Part I: The universality of human rights -- The mythic universality of the Universal Declaration on Human Rights : revisiting the drafting history of the UDHR in search of a foundational theory / Nick Goetschalckx -- The case for a comprehensive global human rights treaty under UN auspices / Konstantinos D. Magliveras -- The universality of human rights : a European perspective / Paul Lemmens -- Recognition of same-sex relationships under the ECHR : till death, or the lack of European consensus, do us part / Johan Lievens and Nele Verbrugghe -- Part II: The proliferation of human rights -- The proliferation of human rights : between devotion and calculation / Kasey McCall-Smith -- Human rights adjudication : between hopes and failures / Dalia Palombo -- Sustainable development in "new generation" trade agreements of the European Union : towards integration or fragmentation of the human rights language? / Michelle Meulebrouck -- Denationalization under the EC(t)HR : a need for an autonomous human right to a nationality? / Louise Reyntjens -- Part III: The costs of human rights -- Economic, social and political costs of the (non-)realization of human rights : towards a new social contract / Felipe Gómez Isa -- Conflicts in human rights-based development / Gustavo Arosemena and Bart Kleine Deters -- Rights and development : the costs of human rights in Ethiopia / Dina Townsend and Nicky Broeckhoven -- The least financially accountable branch? : the right to health and the judiciary's power of the purse : an Israeli perspective / Hillel Sommer -- The human rights project : perspectives on universality, proliferation and costs of human rights / Dima Yared Summary "This insightful book offers a critical reflection on the sustainability and effectiveness of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) and its legacy over the last 70 years. Exploring the problems surrounding universality, proliferation and costs, it asks the provocative question, can we still afford human rights?" Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from title screen (Elgaronline, viewed on November 3, 2020) Subject United Nations. General Assembly. Universal Declaration of Human Rights. SUBJECT Universal Declaration of Human Rights (United Nations. General Assembly) fast Subject Human rights -- Economic aspects Human rights -- Social aspects International and municipal law. International human rights law. Human rights & civil liberties law. Human rights. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Human Rights. LAW -- Civil Rights. LAW -- International. Human rights -- Economic aspects Human rights -- Social aspects International and municipal law Form Electronic book Author Lemmens, Koen, editor. Van Poecke, Thomas, editor. Bourguignon, Marie-Amélie, editor. ISBN 183910032X 9781839100321

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