Human Rights in Iran : The Abuse of Cultural Relativism / / Reza Afshari

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910464119203321
• Autore: Afshari Reza
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Philadelphia : , : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2011]; ©2001
• ISBN: 1-283-89007-0; 0-8122-0105-1
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (436 p.)
• Collana: Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights
• Disciplina: 323.0955
• Soggetti: Human Rights - Iran
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (pages 395- 402) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- A Note on Transliteration -- Preface -- Chapter 1. Islamic Cultural Relativism in Human Rights Discourse -- Chapter 2. The Shiite Theocracy -- Chapter 3. The Right to Life -- Chapter 4. The Right to Freedom from Torture -- Chapter 5. The Right to Liberty and Security of Person and to Freedom from Arbitrary Arrest -- Chapter 6. The Right to a Fair Trial -- Chapter 7. The Right to Freedom of Conscience, Thought, and Religion -- Chapter 8. Renounce Your Conscience or Face Death -- Chapter 9. The Right to Freedom of Thought, Conscience, and Religion -- Chapter 10. Official Responses to the United Nations -- Chapter 11. Change of Tactics After Ayatollah Khomeini's Death -- Chapter 12. The Special Representative's Meetings with the Judiciary and Security Officials -- Chapter 13. The Right to Freedom of Opinion, Expression, and the Press -- Chapter 14. The Most Revealing Cases of Violations of the Right to Freedom of Expression and the Press -- Chapter 15. The Rights to Participate in the Political Life of the Country and to Peaceful Assembly and Association -- Chapter 16. The Rights of Women -- Chapter 17. UN Monitoring, 1984-2000 -- Conclusion -- Afterword -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments
• Sommario/riassunto: Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic TitleAre the principles set forth in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights truly ; universal? Or, as some have argued, are they derived exclusively from Western philosophic traditions and therefore irrelevant to many non-Western cultures? Should a state's claims to indigenous traditions, and not international covenants, determine the scope of rights granted to its citizens?In his strong defense of the Declaration, Reza Afshari contends that the moral vision embodied in this and other agreements is a proper response to the abuses of the modern state. Asserting that the most serious violations of human rights by state rulers are motivated by political and economic factors rather than the purported concern for cultural authenticity, Afshari examines one particular state that has claimed cultural exception to the universality of human rights, the Islamic Republic of Iran.In his revealing case study, Afshari investigates how Islamic culture and Iranian politics since the fall of the Shah have affected human rights policy in that state. He exposes the human rights violations committed by ruling clerics in Iran since the Revolution, showing that Iran has behaved remarkably like other authoritarian governments in its human rights abuses. For more than two decades, Iran has systematically jailed, tortured, and executed dissidents without due process of law and assassinated political opponents outside state borders. Furthermore, like other oppressive states, Iran has regularly denied and countered the charges made by United Nations human rights monitors, defending its acts as authentic cultural practices. Throughout his study, Afshari addresses Iran's claims of cultural relativism, a controversial thesis in the intense ongoing debate over the universality of human rights. In prison memoirs he uncovers the actual human rights abuses committed by the Islamic Republic and the sociopolitical conditions that cause or permit them. Finally, Afshari turns to little-read UN reports that reveal that the dynamics of power between UN human rights monitors and Iranian leaders have proven ineffective at enforcing human rights policy in Iran. Critically analyzing the state's responses, Afshari shows that the Islamic Republic, like other oppressive states, has regularly denied and countered the charges made by UN human rights monitors, and when denials were patently implausible, it defended its acts as authentic cultural practices. This defense is equally unconvincing, since it lacked domestic cultural consensus.

Convergence in ergodic theory and probability [[electronic resource] /] / editors, V. Bergelson, P. March, J. Rosenblatt

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910785816003321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berlin ; ; New York, : Walter de Gruyter, 1996
• ISBN: 3-11-088938-2
• Edizione: [Reprint 2011]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (456 p.)
• Collana: Ohio State University Mathematical Research Institute publications, , 0942-0363 ; ; 5
• Classificazione: SD 1993
• Altri autori (Persone): BergelsonV <1950-> (Vitaly); MarchP <1955-> (Peter); RosenblattJ <1946-> (Joseph)
• Disciplina: 515/.42
• Soggetti: Convergence; Inequalities (Mathematics); Probabilities; Ergodic theory
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Papers from the Conference on Convergence in Ergodic Theory and Probability, held at Ohio State University, in June, 1993.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- A Zd Ergodic Theorem with Large Normalising Constants / Aaronson, Jonathan / Weiss, Benjamin -- A Repeated Filling Scheme for Upcrossings / Akcoglu, M. A. / Baxter, J. R. / Ferrando, S. E. -- When is a Transitive Map Chaotic? / Akin, Ethan / Auslander, Joseph / Berg, Kenneth -- Une Nouvelle Loi Forte des Grands Nombres / Atlagh, Mohamed / Weber, Michel -- An Approximation Condition for Large Deviations and Some Applications / Baxter, John R. / Jain, Naresh C. -- Sets of Recurrence and Generalized Polynomials / Bergelson, Vitaly / Håland, Inger Johanne -- The Strong Arc-Sine Law in Higher Dimensions / Bingham, Ν. H. -- Integer and Fractional Parts of Good Averaging Sequences in Ergodic Theory / Boshernitzan, Michael / Jones, Roger L. / Wierdl, Μáté -- The Uniqueness of Induced Operators / Bradley, Robert E. -- On Convergence of Partial Sums of Independent Random Variables / Etemadi, Nasrollah -- Harmonic Analysis of Operators Associated with a Multiparameter Group of Dilations / Fefferman, Robert A. -- Markov Matrices / Foguel, S. R. -- Existence and Continuity of the Quadratic ; Variation of Strong Martingales / Frangos, Nikos E. / Imkeller, Peter -- Convergence Rate in the Strong Law of Large Numbers for Markov Chains / Fuh, Cheng Der / Lai, Tze Leung -- A Mean Ergodic Theorem for 1/NΣNn=1f(Tnx)g(Tn2x) / Furstenberg, Hillel / Weiss, Benjamin -- Convergence of Ergodic Averages / Jones, Roger L. / Wierdl, Μáté -- Bourgain's Entropy Criteria / Lacey, Michael -- Self-Intersections of Closed Geodesies on a Negatively Curved Surface: Statistical Regularities / Lalley, Steven P. -- A Note on the Law of the Iterated Logarithm for Weighted Sums of Independent Identically Distributed Random Variables / Li, Deli / Rao, M. Bhaskara -- Besicovitch Functions and Weighted Ergodic Theorems for LCA Group Actions / Lin, Michael / Olsen, James -- A Remark on the Strong Sweeping Out Property / Losert, Viktor -- Ergodic Invertible Liftings / Maharam, Dorothy -- The Uniform Ergodic Theorem for Dynamical Systems / Peškir, Goran / Weber, Michel -- Pointwise Fourier Inversion and Related Jacobi Polynomial Expansions / Pinsky, Mark A. -- The Distribution of the Particles of a Branching Random Walk / Révész, P. -- On a Random Ergodic Theorem for Bistochastic Operators / Rubshtein, Ben-Zion -- A Central Limit Theorem for Conditional Distributions / Rubshtein, Ben-Zion -- Complex Methods in the Calculation of Some Distribution Functions / Sagher, Yoram / Xiang, Niandi -- Exponential Integrability of Rademacher Series / Sagher, Yoram / Zhou, Kecheng -- Weighted Averages of Contractions Along Subsequences / Schneider, Dominique / Weber, Michel -- On Uniform Distribution of Sequences / Sun, Yeneng -- Ergodic Theorems for Exit Laws / Wittmann, Rainer -- On Skew Products of Irrational Rotations with Tori / Zhang, Qing