Both indigenous peoples and the capability approach (CA) take a holistic view on development and stress the multiple dimension of development as the expansion of people's well-being including social, cultural and spiritual elements. The paper investigates to what extent the capability approach...

A discourse on human rights, is built on including such rights as part of a broader, universal framework (accommodating for moral, ethical claims) that go beyond any constitutionally derived claims and rights or any given set of legitimate laws that are defined by the sovereign of a country. In...

In Article 25 (1) of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the United Nations recognized in 1948 the basic human right to “security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond ... control.” This paper...

The Goldstone Report is unique among United Nations reports in having been eventually repudiated by its principal author. The Report criminalized self-defense against state-sponsored or state-perpetrated terror. We use voting on the two UN General Assembly resolutions relating to the Goldstone...

The United Nations Goldstone Report criminalized self-defense against state-sponsored or state-perpetrated terror. We use voting on the two UN General Assembly resolutions relating to the Goldstone Report to study whether support for the Goldstone principle of criminalization of self-defense...

The Author examines the right to an adequate standard of living - as a subset of the right to life, dignity, and the pursuit of happiness - and assesses the extent of its realization in Africa. The paper assumes the normativity of socio-economic rights - quite apart from debates on their...

En la postmodernidad, las personas que transitan la vejez con frecuencia son relegadas por la sociedad a ámbitos de olvido, indiferencia, e incluso a la violencia; que afectan su calidad de vida. Como afirma Norberto Bobbio (1997), tal vez porque el curso histórico es cada vez más acelerado; o...