Title Human rights and justice : philosophical, economic, and social perspectives / edited by Melissa Labonte and Kurt Mills

Published Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2018

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Description 1 online resource Series Routledge global institutions series Global institutions series. Contents Cover; Half Title; Title page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of tables; List of contributors; Abbreviations; Introduction; Why human rights and justice?; Engaging a complexity of perspectives on human rights and justice; About this book; Notes; 1. What kind of justice for human rights?; Justice and human rights; Kinds of justice; Human rights and their fit with forms of justice; Forms of justice in action; Conclusion; Notes; 2. Freeing human rights from the requirement of moral feasibility; Moral feasibility; Freeing human rights from the moral feasibility requirement; Conclusion AcknowledgementsNotes; 3. Conflating human rights and economic justice -- a genealogy of the right to development; Background; The Ganji reports (1969-1974); The "right to development" train jumps the tracks: 1974-1977; The right to development resurrected; 1977: the watershed; Conclusion: rights and justice; Notes; 4. Accessing justice? India's Right to Education Act; Right to education or right to learn?; Right to education: ICESCR Article 13 and CRC Articles 28 and 29; India's Right to Education Act in historical perspective Accessing justice? the social life of the RtE Act from above and below33Conclusion: "it shakes up the ground"; Notes; 5. Responsibility for climate justice: A human rights approach to global responsibility for environmental change and impact; A human rights view of climate change injustice; A human rights theory of responsibility for climate change; Taking on the climate change versus justice debate; Notes; 6. Between rights and resilience: Struggles over understanding climate change and human mobility; Human rights, climate change, and human mobility Complexity, climate change, and human mobilityChallenges for a human rights-based approach; Alternative narratives for understanding climate change and human mobility; Entry points for human rights to the discourse; Conclusion; Notes; 7. A responsibility to protect: Seeking justice for cultural heritage; From human rights to justice; Justice and cultural heritage; Distributive justice; Retributive justice; Restorative justice/restitution; Justice as recognition; Conclusion; Notes; Index Summary The relationship between human rights and justice is significant, deep, and ultimately contested. The two terms themselves? human rights and justice? have experienced both conceptual and operational pushback from many quarters in recent years Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Subject Human rights. Social justice. Justice (Philosophy) Human Rights Social Justice POLITICAL SCIENCE -- International Relations -- General. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- International Relations -- Diplomacy. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Civil Rights. Human rights Justice (Philosophy) Social justice Form Electronic book Author Labonte, Melissa, editor Mills, Kurt, editor ISBN 9781315178325 131517832X 9781351713030 1351713035

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