Contemporary challenges to international human rights law and the role of human rights education

dc.contributor.authorViljoen, Frans
dc.date.accessioned2012-04-24T07:59:51Z
dc.date.available2012-04-24T07:59:51Z
dc.date.issued2011
dc.descriptionReworked version of an inaugural address, delivered as head of department (‘Director’) of the Centre for Human Rights, Faculty of Law, University of Pretoria, on 11 May 2011. A revised version of this address was also presented on 14 November 2011 at the Second International Conference on Human Rights Education, held from 14 to 16 November 2011, in Durban.en_US
dc.description.abstractIn hierdie bydrae word vier hedendaagse uitdagings aan international menseregte onder die loep geneem. Hierdie uitdagings is: (1) Die internasionale menseregte-sisteem is oormatig ingewikkeld en gefragmenteerd, dog steeds onvolledig in die substantiewe beskerming wat dit bied. (2) Internasionale menseregte het nie voldoen aan die beloftes wat dit voorgehou het nie. (3) Die staats-gesentreerde aard van menseregte gee aanleiding daartoe dat state die paradoksale posisie inneem as beide menseregte-beskermer en menseregte-skender. (4) Internasionale menseregte het nie voldoende aandag geskenk aan die behoeftes van die mees behoeftige lede van samelewings nie. Hierdie artikel maak die argument uit dat elkeen van hierdie uitdagings beter verstaan en benader kan word indien ´n multidissiplinêre, eerder as ´n streng judisiële of regsgebaseerde benadering gevolg word. Die inhoud van menseregte-opleiding moet dus krities heroorweeg word, en toelatingsvereistes vir meseregte-programme behoort aangepas te word om so ´n multidissiplinêre benadering te vergestalt.af
dc.description.abstractThis address explores the broader idea of human rights, and reflects on contemporary challenges to international human rights law and their relevance for human rights education. Under the term “international human rights law”, I understand the human rights treaties and other documents and related institutions and processes at both the global level (under the auspices of the United Nations) and at the regional level (under the African Union).en
dc.description.librariannf2012en
dc.description.urihttp://www.dejure.up.ac.za/en_US
dc.identifier.citationViljoen, F 2011, 'Contemporary challenges to international human rights law and the role of human rights education', De Jure, vol. 44, no. 2, pp. 207-231.en
dc.identifier.issn1466-3597
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/18616
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherPretoria University Law Press (PULP)en_US
dc.rightsPretoria University Law Press (PULP)en_US
dc.subjectInternational human rights lawen
dc.subjectHuman rights educationen
dc.titleContemporary challenges to international human rights law and the role of human rights educationen
dc.title.alternativeHedendaagse uitdagings vir internasionale menseregte en die rol van menseregte-opleidingaf
dc.typeArticleen

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