03789cam a2200517M 4500 9781003404453 FlBoTFG 20251030122244.0 m o d cr |n||||||||| 250211s2025 xx o 0|| 0 eng d OCoLC-P eng OCoLC-P 9781040325964 (electronic bk.) 1040325963 (electronic bk.) 9781003404453 (electronic bk.) 1003404456 (electronic bk.) 9781040325988 (electronic bk. : EPUB) 104032598X (electronic bk. : EPUB) 1032519231 9781032519234 10.4324/9781003404453 doi (OCoLC)1498541720 (OCoLC-P)1498541720 JC571 POL 035010 bisacsh POL 011000 bisacsh JP bicssc HUMAN RIGHTS AND THE UNITED NATIONS [electronic resource] : paradox and promise. [S.l.] : ROUTLEDGE, 2025. 1 online resource Routledge Explorations in Development Studies 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, and 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 the 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. OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record. Human rights. 58427 United Nations. 64733 POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom & Security / Human Rights bisacsh 94276 POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General bisacsh Bakan, Abigail B. (Abigail Bess), 1954- https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJxMjCWM3b7YgGdJhHkMT3 94277 Abu-Laban, Yasmeen, 1966- https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PCjDfGJDCxdtKggJMXBrtqP 94278 Routledge explorations in development studies. 94279 Taylor & Francis https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781003404453 OCLC metadata license agreement http://www.oclc.org/content/dam/oclc/forms/terms/vbrl-201703.pdf E-Books 67760 67760