Authors: Evelyn Kallen
ISBN-13: 9780333924280, ISBN-10: 0333924282
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Date Published: March 2004
Edition: New Edition
Evelyn Kallen is Emeritus Professor and Senior Scholar on the Faculty of Arts, York University.
This book uses a human rights framework to analyze how group-level social inequalities and injustices are socially constructed and maintained through violations of human rights on grounds of race, gender, sexuality, etc., and how human rights legislation can help such violations to effectively be redressed. Although it focuses primarily on democratic nations, it uses international case material to highlight key global issues.
List of Tables and Figures | ||
List of Key Human Rights Cases | ||
List of Case Studies | ||
Preface | ||
Introduction: A Human Rights Approach | 1 | |
1 | The Human Rights Perspective International Human Rights | 13 |
2 | The Social Construction of Inequality | 31 |
3 | Prejudice and Discrimination: Building Blocks of Social Inequality | 56 |
4 | The Experience of Degradation, Abuse and the Harmful Impact of Hate | 74 |
5 | Equality/Equity-Seeking Protest Movements 1: Women's Rights | 96 |
6 | Equality/Equity-Seeking Protest Movement 2: Gay and Lesbian Rights | 120 |
7 | The Roots of the Aboriginal Movement: Colonialism and Cultural Genocide | 141 |
8 | Aboriginal Rights and New Nationhood Movements | 154 |
9 | Conclusion: Strengths and Weaknesses of the Current Human Rights System | 176 |
App. A | Universal Declaration of Human Rights | 186 |
App. B | Draft Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples | 192 |
References | 202 | |
Index | 214 |