Giuseppe Capograssi : filosofo del nostro tempo / Enrico Opocher

• Record Nr.: UNISA990000931200203316
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Milano : Giuffrè, 1991
• Descrizione fisica: 1110 p. ; 23 cm
• Collana: Fondazione Giuseppe Capograssi Roma-Sulmona ; 1
• Soggetti: Capograssi, Giuseppe
• Collocazione: COLL.HRG 1
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Italiano
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia

Insincere commitments [[electronic resource] ] : human rights treaties, abusive states, and citizen activism / / Heather M. Smith-Cannoy

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910463542903321
• Autore: Smith-Cannoy Heather M
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Washington D.C., : Georgetown University Press, 2012
• ISBN: 1-58901-896-6
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (221 p.)
• Disciplina: 341.4/8
• Soggetti: Human rights - International cooperation; Human rights - Government policy; Human rights monitoring; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction -- A new approach to commitment and compliance -- Patterns of commitment -- Causes of commitment -- Individual petitions in Eastern Europe: racial discrimination in Slovakia -- Hungary and the Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination ; Against Women -- The Human Rights Committee in Central Asia: Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan -- The causes and consequences of commitment reconsidered.
• Sommario/riassunto: Paradoxically, many governments that persistently violate human rights have also ratified international human rights treaties that empower their citizens to file grievances against them at the United Nations. Therefore, citizens in rights-repressing regimes find themselves with the potentially invaluable opportunity to challenge their government's abuses. Why would rights-violating governments ratify these treaties and thus afford their citizens this right? Can the mechanisms provided in these treaties actually help promote positive changes in human rights?Insincere Commitments uses both quant