Preventive Human Rights Strategies

Download or read book Preventive Human Rights Strategies written by B. G. Ramcharan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book identifies the need for preventive human rights strategies, maps what exists by way of such strategies at the present time, and offers policy options to deal with the world of the future. In the future, preventive human rights strategies will need to be developed to address human rights aspects of problems such as the following: environmental changes pandemics mass migration global poverty and pervasive inequality inter-state conflicts terrorism, including WMD terrorism; gross violations of human rightsWe are already in a quite different world in the 21st century and human rights thinking will need to evolve to meet its needs. The book sets out the changing problematic and makes the case for new human rights thinking.