Recent years have seen an increase of interest on the part of human rights theorists in the
“supply-side” of human rights, ie, in the duties or obligations correlative to human rights …

In his extensive body of work, Professor Abdullahi Ahmed An-Naim challenges both
historical interpretations of Islamic Sharia and neo-colonial understanding of human rights …

The social dimension of sustainability recently attained acceptance as an elemental
component of sustainable development. Social sustainability has been achieving interest in …

Human rights and democracy have been regarded as a mutually reinforcing couple by many
political theorists to date. The internationalisation of human rights post-1945 is often said to …

This article interrogates the widely held, but rarely defended, view that states wield
legitimate power over potential immigrants when and because they refrain from violating …

International institutions have become increasingly important not only in the relations
between states, but also for individuals. When are these institutions legitimate? The …

In the last seven years, over twenty thousand people have died trying to reach Europe by
crossing the Mediterranean Sea. Rescue missions by private actors and NGOs have …

The world's problems--climate change, epidemics, and the actions of multinational
corporations--are increasingly global in scale and beyond the ability of any single state to …

This article looks at emerging threats to human security in East Asia posed by the Fourth
Industrial Revolution (4IR), defined here as emerging business models and techniques that …

Durante décadas, los filósofos han concebido los derechos humanos como una clase de
derechos naturales de los que gozamos por el mero hecho de ser seres humanos. Sin …