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"Academic, public, school, and special libraries are all institutions of human rights and social justice, with an increasingly apparent commitment to equality, to ethical principles based on rights and justice, and to programs that meet needs related to human rights and social justice. Key topics at the intersection of information, human rights, social justice, and technology include information access and literacy, digital inclusion, education, and social services, among many others. Edited by Ursula Gorham, Natalie Greene Taylor, and Paul T. Jaeger, this volume is devoted to the ideals, activities, and programs in libraries that protect human rights and promote social justice. With contributions from researchers, educators, and practitioners from a range of fields, this book is an important resource for library professionals in all types of libraries, a reference for researchers and educators about all types of libraries, and an introduction to those in other fields about the contributions of libraries to human rights and social justice. "

"[The book examines commonalities and differences in the operation of various structures of power (gender, class, race/ethnicity, generation) and their interactions within the institutional domains of intra-national and especially inter-national migration that produce context-specific forms of social injustice. Additional contributions have been included so as to cover issues of legal liminality and how the social construction of not only femininity but also masculinity affects all migrants and all women. The resulting set of 19 detailed, interconnected case studies makes a valuable contribution to reorienting our perceptions and values in the discussions and decision-making concerning migration, and to raising awareness of key issues in migrants’ rights. , The book examines commonalities and differences in the operation of various structures of power (gender, class, race/ethnicity, generation) and their interactions within the institutional domains of intra-national and especially inter-national migration that produce context-specific forms of social injustice. Additional contributions have been included so as to cover issues of legal liminality and how the social construction of not only femininity but also masculinity affects all migrants and all women. The resulting set of 19 detailed, interconnected case studies makes a valuable contribution to reorienting our perceptions and values in the discussions and decision-making concerning migration, and to raising awareness of key issues in migrants’ rights. ]"

"Having articulated numerous human rights norms and standards in international treaties, the pressing challenge today is their realisation in States' parties around the world. Domestic implementation has proven a difficult task for national authorities as well as international supervisory bodies. This book examines the traditional State-centric and legalistic approach to implementation, critiquing its limited efficacy in practice and failure to connect with local cultures. The book therefore explores the permissibility of other measures of implementation, and advocates more culturally sensitive approaches involving social institutions. Through an interdisciplinary case study of Islam in Indonesia, the book demonstrates the power of social institutions like religion to promote rights compliant positions and behaviours. Like the preamble of the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the book reiterates the role not just of the State but indeed 'every organ of society' in realising rights."

"Examining Critical Perspectives on Human Rights sets out a practical and theoretical overview of the future of human rights within the United Kingdom and beyond. A number of internationally renowned scholars respond to David Kennedy's contribution 'The International Human Rights Movement: Still Part of the Problem?' from a range of different perspectives. With its combination of theory and practice of international and domestic human rights at this key juncture in the human rights project, it is relevant to all scholars and practitioners with an interest in human rights"-- Provided by publisher.Part I. Introduction -- Examining critical perspectives on human rights : an introduction / Ole W. Pedersen & C. R. G. Murray -- The international human rights regime : still part of the problem? / David Kennedy -- Part II. Domestic Human Rights Perspectives -- What is the point of human rights law? / Keith Ewing -- If you cannot change the rules of the game, adapt to them : United Kingdom responses to the restrictions set by Article 3 ECHR on 'national security' deportations / David Bonner -- The right to security : securing rights or securitizing rights? / Liora Lazarus -- Of fortresses and caltrops: national security and competing models of rights protection / C. R. G. Murray -- Part III. International Human Rights Law Perspectives -- The rule of law and the role of human rights in comtemporary international law / Elena Katselli -- The construction of the constitutional essentials of democratic politics by the European Court of Human Rights following Sejdić and Finci / Steven Wheatley -- Universal human rights : a challenge too far / Rob Dickinson -- Part IV. Theoretical Perspectives on Human Rights -- The reality and hyper-reality of human rights : public consciousness and the mass media / Eric Heinze -- Human rights and the struggle for change : a study in self-critical legal thought / Christine Bell -- Lawfare and the internatinal human rights movement / Richard Mullender."

"The place that human rights occupies in national and international discourse ha> been hard thought for over the past live decades. Now. it is safe to predict that governments' agendas at national, regional and global levels will include human rights in domestic and foreign bilateral and multilateral matters, whether involving economic assistance, diplomacy, trade, or military assistance. Human rights is an evolving system that has increasingly become integral to today's global affairs. At the same time, human rights continues to reflect the value system that more man live decades ago was instmmental in generating the promotion and protection of human rights. Within the evolving human rights system, the seminal notion of ot each human being's entitlement to equal rights is based on the fact that he or she has been born - nothing more than that, and nothing less.' The system's mechanisms and procedures keep pace with political developments. As a result, while the human rights value system maintains its integrity, the mechanisms and procedures bear less resemblance to those of fifty years ago.This article first considers the foundations of the human rights system enshrined in the United Nations Charter of 1945 and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948.' It then touches on examples of practical questions of implementation of human rights via the treaty-based committee system, and ends by surveying problematic questions of universality of rights in relation to cultural relativism and traditionalism.Today, human rights looks back un five decades of successes and failures. The system has developed often useful but often futile implementation methods, and broad dissemination of human rights goes on alongside widespread censorship. Overwhelming numbers of people in every corner of the globe each day suffer violations of basic rights ? the right to be secure from torture and other maltreatment, the right to an adequate diet and to health care, the right to protection of the right to think and speak. Indeed, a deep-seated right that is basic to all those rights ? the right to learn that everyone has rights - represents perhaps the most deep-seated contradiction of all. Despite the current Decade of Human Rights Education', education on human rights conlinues to exist more in theory than in practice. Recognition of" the urgent need for human rights education was expressed recently by a distinguished Indonesian who stated firmlyThe Indonesian government will relentlessly continue to pursue political reforms

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people will know their rights and exercise them with confidence that they will he respected and protected. Knowing and exercising their rights, they can more actively participate in the decision-making process that affects their lives."'

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