Human rights, southern voices :: Francis Deng, Abdullahi An-Na'im, Yash Ghai and Upendra Baxi /: edited by William Twining.

Name: Human rights, southern voices : Francis Deng, Abdullahi An-Na'im, Yash Ghai and Upendra Baxi / edited by William Twining.
ISBN: 9780511808364

Twining, William,

Human rights, southern voices : Francis Deng, Abdullahi An-Na'im, Yash Ghai and Upendra Baxi / edited by William Twining.

Twining, William, 1934- editor.

2009

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Human rights, southern voices : Francis Deng, Abdullahi An-Na'im, Yash Ghai and Upendra Baxi / edited by William Twining.

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Twining, William, 1934- editor.

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Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2009.

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1 online resource (viii, 238 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Series

Law in context.

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Francis Mading Deng
The cow and the thing called "What": Dinka cultural perspectives on wealth and poverty
Human rights, universalism and democracy
A cultural approach to human rights among the Dinka
Abdullahi An-Na'im
Context and methodology: the Second Message of Islam
Shari'a and basic human rights concerns
Culural legitimation: towards a cross-cultural approach to defining international standards of human rights: the meaning of cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment
Islam and the secular state
Economic, social and cultural rights (ESCR)
Yash Ghai
Universalism and relativism: human rights as a framework for negotiating interethnic claims
Understanding human rights in Asia
Quotations
Upendra Baxi
Voices of suffering and the future of human rights
Rights and "development."

Summary

A just international order and a healthy cosmopolitan discipline of law need to include perspectives that take account of the standpoints, interests, concerns and beliefs of non-Western people and traditions. The dominant scholarly and activist discourses about human rights have developed largely without reference to these other viewpoints. Claims about universality sit uneasily with ignorance of other traditions and parochial or ethnocentric tendencies. The object of the book is to make accessible the ideas of four jurists who present distinct 'Southern' perspectives on human rights.

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English