The hidden face of rights : toward a politics of responsibilities

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Label

The hidden face of rights : toward a politics of responsibilities

Title remainder

toward a politics of responsibilities

Statement of responsibility

Kathryn Sikkink

Creator

• Sikkink, Kathryn, 1955-

Author

• Sikkink, Kathryn, 1955-

Subject

• Responsibility -- Political aspects
• Human rights
• Responsibility -- Political aspects
• Human rights

Language

eng

Summary

Why we cannot truly implement human rights unless we also recognize human responsibilities. When we debate questions in international law, politics, and justice, we often use the language of rights-and far less often the language of responsibilities. Human rights scholars and activists talk about state responsibility for rights, but they do not articulate clear norms about other actors' obligations. In this book, Kathryn Sikkink argues that we cannot truly implement human rights unless we also recognize and practice the corresponding human responsibilities. Focusing on five areas-climate change, voting, digital privacy, freedom of speech, and sexual assault-where on-the-ground (primarily university campus) initiatives have persuaded people to embrace a close relationship between rights and responsibilities, Sikkink argues for the importance of responsibilities to any comprehensive understanding of political ethics and human rights

Member of

• Castle lectures in ethics, politics, and economics

Cataloging source

YDX

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Series statement

The Castle lectures in ethics, politics, and economics