Buch, Englisch, 440 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 799 g
An Essay on International Human Rights Law
Buch, Englisch, 440 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 799 g
ISBN: 978-0-7923-3018-9
Verlag: Brill
This book is the first to examine sexual orientation from the viewpoint of international human rights law. It does not simply 'create' a platform of rights and argue for their 'introduction' in human rights law. Rather, it examines how extant international norms should be construed to include rights against discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, including rights of privacy, equality, speech, expression, and association. It raises questions of cultural relativism, religious faith, social science, and legal theory. It will be of interest to international jurists, human rights organizations, gay rights organizations, constitutional scholars, and anyone interested in expanding the role of international human rights law as a formidable adversary of persecution and discrimination throughout the world.
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Part 1: The Oldest and Newest of Problems.
1. Less Equal?
2. Sexual Orientation and Sexual Minorities.
Part 2: From Western Concepts to Universal Law?
3. The Problem of Universality.
4. Rights, New and Old.
5. Practical Concerns.
6. Rights of Sexual Orientation in the World Today.
Part 3: Methodology.
7. Rights, New and Extant.
8. Jurisprudential Foundations.
Part 4: Fundamental Rights of Sexual Orientation.
9. Personhood.
10. Privacy.
11. Liberty.
12. Equality.
13. Towards a Jurisprudence of Sexual Minorities.
14. Other Rights.
Part 5: Towards Positive Law.
15. A Model Declaration.
16. Recommendations.
Appendix: Excerpts from International Human Rights Instruments.
Works Cited.
Index.
