Human Rights and Human Development: Thailand Country Study

human development, human rights

Sexualities, genders and rights: implications for the Asian region: keynote address

"The topic at hand is challenging because it invites us to recognize human biodiversity – with a degree of self-reflection and open-mindedness. This invitation to be humanistic and pluralistic is evidenced clearly in the great array of papers and abstracts submitted for this international conference on sexualities - from all over the world. The words used by these written submissions are wonderful and wondrous in their diversity and ingenuity. Many are most telling in their apprehensions, aspersions and aspirations, and call upon us to respond with a sense of humility and humanity. In all seriousness, a sense of humour is also needed at times in the face of the global environment of felicitous filibuster and rambunctious rancour."AsiaPacifiQueer Network, Australian National Universit

A commentary on the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, Article 34 : sexual exploitation and sexual abuse of children

This volume constitutes a commentary on Article 34 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. It is part of the series, A Commentary on the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, which provides an article by article analysis of all substantive, organizational and procedural provisions of the CRC and its two Optional Protocols. For every article, a comparison with related human rights provisions is made, followed by an in-depth exploration of the nature and scope of State obligations deriving from that article. The series constitutes an essential tool for actors in the field of children’s rights, including academics, students, judges, grassroots workers, governmental, non- governmental and international officers. The series is sponsored by the Belgian Federal Science Policy Office

Ordem política e sujeito de direito no debate sobre direitos humanos Political order and subject of right in the debate about human rights

O debate teórico sobre os direitos humanos durante os anos noventa é analisado a partir de dois eixos: a ordem política que garante esses direitos e a relação do sujeito à regra de direito. Estes eixos têm como pontos extremos: o primeiro, a ordem estatal e a ordem global e o segundo, uma concepção institucional e uma concepção sociológica da relação do sujeito à regra de direito. Isso permite identificar quatro posições polares, juntamente com os problemas teóricos e práticos que enfrentam.<br>The theoretical debate about human rights during the nineties is analyzed according to two axis: the political order that grants those rights and the relation between the subject and the rule of law. The ultimate questions those axis point out are: first, the state order and the global order and, second, an institutional conception and a sociological conception about how the subject is related to the rule of law. Four polar positions are, then, identified, along with the theoretical and practical problems they face