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Human Rights and the United Nations: Paradox and Promise

Human Rights and the United Nations: Paradox and Promise

Author: Abigail B. Bakan; Yasmeen Abu-Laban
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781032519234
Published In: March 2025
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
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This book considers the complex and contradictory role of the United Nations when it comes to human rights around the world. It depicts the United Nations as a global arena in which state and non-state actors continuously contest issues around human rights. This ongoing contestation simultaneously produces both advances and setbacks when it comes to the rights of stateless populations, women, Indigenous Peoples, racialized people, as well as rights related to health and the environment.

Since the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights and throughout various subsequent expansions, conventions and declarations, the United Nations has been central to the development and advancement of human rights as a primary, stated goal of global governance. However, there are various inherent contradictory tensions and challenges embedded in United Nations promise for human rights. This timely collection investigates the United Nations’ role as knowledge producer, its relation to non-state actors, and the United Nations’ role as a system for grouping sovereign states, where there is uneven buy-in within non-binding agreements and tensions between national sovereignty and human rights. At a time when the world faces existential challenges from climate change to pandemics, which disproportionately impact the world’s most vulnerable populations, this book addresses future challenges and possibilities for the United Nations.

Human Rights and the United Nations: Paradox and Promise will be an important read for researchers and students across the fields of human rights, political science, international relations and global development, as well as for United Nations and governmental policy analysts and advisors.

Introduction: Thinking About the Paradox and Promise of Human Rights and the United Nations

Abigail B. Bakan and Yasmeen Abu-Laban

Part 1: The United Nations as Knowledge Producer

1. Knowledge Production: Gender, Race, Indigenous Peoples and Politics and the UN

Abigail B. Bakan and Yasmeen Abu-Laban

2. Towards Reproductive Justice in the Global Gender Equality Agenda: The UN and Canadas’s Compliance and Non-Compliance with Beijing and Beyond

Nariya Khasanova

3. Human Rights for Human Remains: How International Frameworks Facilitate Transnational Knowledge Production

Nicole Anderson

Part 2: Stateless and Non-State Actors

4. Statelessness as a Window on the Paradox of the United Nations

Yasmeen Abu-Laban and Abigail B. Bakan

5. The Paradox of Visibility and the ILO’s Decent Work for Domestic Workers Convention

Annie Chau

6. The Paradox of Indigenous Peoples’

Participation at the UN: The Dance of Meaningful Change Against State Sovereignty and Territorial Integrity

Sheryl Lightfoot and Utkarsh Khare

Part 3: Global Challenges and Sovereign States

7. The UN’s Contradictory Impact and Failure to Protect Women in Humanitarian Settings: Racist Frames in Post-Earthquake Haiti

Célia Romulus

8. Mandating Global Health to Foster Health Security: Spotlighting the Africa Health Strategy (2007-30) and the United Nations

Christopher Isike

9. Will a Human Right to a Clean, Healthy and Sustainable Environment Address the Wrongs of Environmental Degradation?

Karen Morrow

10. The UN Human Rights Paradox During the Interregnum: Yemen and Myanmar as Case Studies

W. Andy Knight

Afterword: Naming and Framing Paradox Yasmeen Abu-Laban and Abigail B. Bakan

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