Rereading the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: Plurality and Contestation, Not Consensus

Hoover, Joe

doi:10.1080/14754835.2013.784663

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“…As origens do conceito moderno de DH são um reflexo do Holocausto, ocorrido na II Guerra Mundial. Ao término do conflito, criou-se a ONU, em 1945, e, posteriormente, a Declaração Universal dos Direitos Humanos, em 1948 (Hoover, 2013;Muchlinski, 2001). Para o movimento Anistia Internacional (2021), "[...] não existe uma definição única de Direitos Humanos, mas comum a todas as abordagens é a convicção de que eles são fundamentais para vivermos com dignidade como seres humanos".…”

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Negócios e direitos humanos: uma análise das tentativas de neutralizar as denúncias de violações contra os direitos humanos

Maritan

Oliveira

2022

Cad. EBAPE.BR

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Resumo Análise das tentativas de empresas de neutralizar denúncias de violações contra os Direitos Humanos (DH). A revisão da literatura concentra-se nas noções que o termo DH adquiriu na área de negócios. O material empírico é composto por fontes secundárias como jornais, portais de notícias, relatórios produzidos por organizações não governamentais (ONGs), blogs e outras publicações decorrentes de iniciativas voltadas às causas ambientais e de DH. Este material empírico foi a base para a análise de denúncias de violações aos DH de nove multinacionais e, ainda, valendo-se do aporte teórico e de fontes selecionadas, utilizou-se a análise temática (AT) como proposta metodológica para atingir os objetivos. Os resultados mostraram que as empresas atuam como players globais e adotam posturas corporativas de cumplicidade, abstenção de responsabilidade e uma recorrente tentativa de negação, por meio da desqualificação e desacreditação das denúncias, criação de gabinetes de guerra e uso de estratégias de negação como a negação do passado, literal e implicatória.

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Negócios e direitos humanos: uma análise das tentativas de neutralizar as denúncias de violações contra os direitos humanos

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Oliveira

2022

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“…The drafting process was generally marked by numerous political, cultural, ideological, religious, and gender conflicts (Adami, 2017). The deliberations produced a document that reflects this plurality: it is based on consensus as much as on ambiguity, contestation, and even omission (Adami, 2017; Hoover, 2013). In the final decision about the endorsement of the UDHR in the UN General Assembly in December 1948, of the then 58 member states 48 states voted in favor of the declaration (none voted against it), 33 of which were non-Western.…”

Section: Are Human Rights Western?mentioning

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“…Dynamic pluralism entails contradicting and pluralistic struggles. As discussed with regard to the institutionalization of human rights, many such struggles consist of contradictions, contestation, and ambiguities (Hoover, 2013). In effect, they may be strengthening as well as weakening human rights.…”

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Are human rights western—And why does it matter? A perspective from international political theory

Mende

2019

Journal of International Political Theory

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A widespread assumption alleges that human rights are not universal, as they claim to be, but are instead Western oriented. Yet a growing body of research provides evidence that human rights are not just Western. Both perspectives are critical of repressive dimensions in the human rights regime, though they recommend different approaches to addressing them. This article explores both viewpoints from an International Political Theory perspective. Examining the pluralist idea, institutionalization, and application of human rights, the first section argues that human rights are not just Western. The second section investigates why it nevertheless matters to ask whether human rights are Western. This article develops four interrelated criteria: dynamic pluralism, awareness of power and inequalities, contextual universalism, and open normativity. These criteria help determine whether human rights are (not just) Western, and, more importantly, they provide the basis for an emancipatory human rights regime.

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“…56 Th e drafting of the UDHR included delegates from over sixty countries, representing diff erent and sometimes agonistic religious and non-religious belief systems. 57 Th e over two hundred UN sessions where the declaration was being debated and discussed were open for media coverage and hundreds of NGOs were present to lobby (for example for the inclusion of womens' human rights). Th e wording in the UDHR was being stripped down through the drafting process, taking away all direct or indirect cultural, religious and ethnic references to God and particular beliefs -so that the delegates, coming from agonistic belief systems, could agree on the same text.…”

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Paideia and Cosmopolitan Education: On Subjectification, Politics and Justice

Adami

2016

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<em>Can human rights in education enhance students and teachers capacity to reimagine their local community and to rethink the rules and laws that support such a social community? This paper is a political philosophical inquiry into human rights in education, drawing on the work of Hannah Arendt, Cornelius Castoriadis and Adriana Cavarero. By placing learning at the center of political philosophy through the notion of paideia, we need to ask how such an education can look like. According to Castoriadis, society exists only insofar as it is embodied in its social individuals. Society and its individuals are in a constant process of becoming toward relational autonomy that implies a moral self-limitation. At the core of my philosophical inquiry into moral subjectification is the need to re-think human rights and the pedagogical subject in relational terms that imply self-limitation and political engagement in a wider cosmopolitan community</em>

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Rereading the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: Plurality and Contestation, Not Consensus

Abstract: This is the accepted version of the paper.This version of the publication may differ from the final published version. Permanent

Cited by 25 publications

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Negócios e direitos humanos: uma análise das tentativas de neutralizar as denúncias de violações contra os direitos humanos

Negócios e direitos humanos: uma análise das tentativas de neutralizar as denúncias de violações contra os direitos humanos

Are human rights western—And why does it matter? A perspective from international political theory

Paideia and Cosmopolitan Education: On Subjectification, Politics and Justice

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