Conceiving human rights without ontology

Article Abstract:

Thomas Pogge argues about the responsibility and capacity to change the global institutional order in a way that deals more justly with those who live in poverty, in his book, 'World Poverty and Human Rights'. He concludes that the attempt to establish a single, universal criterion of justice, and to express it in the language of human rights, is undermined from within for as long as it fails to engage with ontological concern.

College teachers, College faculty, Authorship, World Poverty and Human Rights (Book), Pogge, Thomas

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Child soldiers and international law: Patchwork gains and conceptual debates

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A study reviews the development of law relating to child soldiers, and identifies the legal and conceptual discrepancies in the child soldiers issue and how they relate to and affect each other. An overview of the child soldiers issue is presented, together with a summary discussion of the respective strengths and weaknesses of international humanitarian law and human rights law in regard to child soldiers.

Child soldiers, Civil rights

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Paradoxical bedfellows: Nihilism and human rights

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The existence of a manifest paradox contained within the doctrine of human rights is identified. The justification for human rights envisages a single, universal community of human beings, whereas the actual application typically testifies to the existence of two distinct communities of victims and perpetrators.

Analysis, Social philosophy

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