Teaching the History of Human Rights and "Humanitarian" Interventions by Mary Nolan

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4. Towards a History of Human Rights by Franco Motta, Alessandro Maurini

“…Keywords: Human Rights, History of Human Rights, Enlightenment, Natural Rights History …”
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História social dos direitos humanos e políticas de igualdade de gênero (Social history of human rights and gender equality politics) Doi: 10.5212/Emancipacao.v.14i2.0003 by Rosana Mirales

“…Abstract: This paper seeks to demonstrate the relationship between women’s rights and the social history of human rights. It presents the reading on the dynamics established in the fight for human rights, from the point of view of the concepts that base them and the concrete reality that materializes them in national societies, pointing out the forces that drive their discussions and the incipient materialization of justice. …”
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História social dos direitos humanos e políticas de igualdade de gênero (Social history of human rights and gender equality politics) Doi: 10.5212/Emancipacao.v.14i2.0003 by Rosana Mirales

“…</span></p><p align="left"><span style="font-family: Arial-BoldMT, serif;"><strong>Abstract: </strong></span><span style="font-family: ArialMT, serif;">This paper seeks to demonstrate the relationship between women’s rights and the social history of human rights. It presents the reading on the dynamics established in the fight for human rights, from the point of view of the concepts that base them and the concrete reality that materializes them in national societies, pointing out the forces that drive their discussions and the incipient materialization of justice. …”
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From Magna Carta To The Contemporary System Of Financial Penalties In The Criminal Law by Deanoska – Trendafilova Aleksandra

“…Magna Carta Libertatum or the Great Charter of the Liberties is a historical document of great significance for the constitutional history and human rights and liberties development. Although at its initial version it addressed a limited number of liberties and principles, it represented a solid foundation for the evolution of the principles of the rule of law, right to justice, right to a fair trial, just and reasonable sentencing, limitation of powers, etc.…”
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5. The ‘Natural Rights History’ Portal and Its Design by Mila Fumini

“…Keywords: Human Rights, History of Human Rights, Digital Humanities, Web Publishing, Digitisation of Historical Sources …”
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Cultural context in medical ethics: lessons from Japan by Powell Tia

“…<p>Abstract</p> <p>This paper examines two topics in Japanese medical ethics: non-disclosure of medical information by Japanese physicians, and the history of human rights abuses by Japanese physicians during World War II. …”
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Democracy and Human Rights. The Abolition of Regulated Prostitution in Germany and Italy 1918-1958 by Malte König

“…The essay explores the connections between the abolition of legalized prostitution and the processes of democratization in Germany and Italy, starting from the history of human rights and its interaction with the political system. …”
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6. Sources for a History of Women’s Rights by Valentina Altopiedi

“…On the long wave of the politicization of literature in the 18th century, the novels and plays of the revolutionary decade preserve the traces of a culture of emancipation which had to confront a historical practice of exclusion—when the false universal represented by the homme as the bearer of rights was challenged by Olympe de Gouges. Keywords:  History of Human Rights, Olympe de Gouges, Declaration of the Rights of Women, French Revolution, History of French Theatre …”
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Scandinavian Legal Realism and the Challenge of Recognizing Emergency Medical Service as a Legal Norm by Jenna Uusitalo

“…Supplementary scholarly views, as well as a history of human rights, are also applied to support the main arguments. …”
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The European Convention on Human Rights by Cătălina Mititelu

“…A true “Charter” of Human Rights, the Convention - which was revised and amended by additional Protocols – enounced not only the human rights and fundamental freedoms, but also provided the framework of their legal protection, which laid the foundation of a new era in the history of human rights. Among others, our paper emphasizes also the fact that the European Convention on Human Rights sets not only the general principles of the EU law, principles that have the force of “Jus cogens” for all EU states in the field of human rights and fundamental freedoms, but also it guarantee them a proper legal protection. …”
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El Salvador, 1983: Marianela Garcia Villas n. 43.337 nell’elenco delle vittime civili by Chiara Forneris

“…Marianela’s history, as human rights (HRs) activist, raises a fundamental question on how a woman could relate with a death scenario and a death context in her HRs political care. …”
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LOS DERECHOS HUMANOS Y LOS TRATADOS QUE LOS CONTIENEN EN EL DERECHO CONSTITUCIONAL Y LA JURISPRUDENCIA DE GUATEMALA by Carmen María Gutiérrez de Colmenares

“…<br>This article offers a brief history of Human Rights in Guatemalan constitutions and the development of a constitutional jurisdiction. …”
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Human rights teaching: snapshots from four countries by Carole L Hahn

“…The author found that schools taught about the history of human rights, rights in terms of national constitutions, and violations of human rights in the Global South; she observed fewer examples of human rights discourse addressing national and local issues.  …”
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The Human Rights Policies of the EU: Political Nature, Existing Incoherencies and Institutional Bifurcation by Branimir Stanimirov

“…The history of human rights in the context of the European Union (EU) is complex and riddled with contradictions. …”
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Humanitarianism in nineteenth-century context: religious, gendered, national by Green, A

“…This article surveys the wave of new historical and political-science literature exploring humanitarianism and the ‘pre-history’ of human rights in the long nineteenth century, noting the presentist assumptions underpinning much of this literature. …”

Democracy & Human Rights Promotion in US Foreign Policy by Arif Mammadov

“…This theoretical framework has been selected because of its insistence on the logic of consequences and this work’s recognition that democracy promotion is not an instinctively altruistic policy choice of the US. Also, the history of human rights and democracy promotion in US foreign policy is traced to the presidency of Woodrow Wilson. …”
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Teaching recent history in countries that have experienced human rights violations: Case studies from Chile by Maria Isabel Toledo, Abraham Magendzo, Renato Gazmuri

“… Incorporating recent history into the educational curricula of countries that have experienced human rights violations combines the complexities of teaching history, teaching recent history, and  human rights education. Recent history makes a historical analysis of social reality and a historiographical analysis of the immediate. …”
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Teaching recent history in countries that have experienced human rights violations: Case studies from Chile by Maria Isabel Toledo, Abraham Magendzo, Renato Gazmuri

“… Incorporating recent history into the educational curricula of countries that have experienced human rights violations combines the complexities of teaching history, teaching recent history, and  human rights education. Recent history makes a historical analysis of social reality and a historiographical analysis of the immediate. …”
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Human Rights: From Theory to Politics by A. I. Kugay

“…At the level of political practice, the history of human rights, as in the time of Locke, retains all the signs of social inequality, remains the history of drawing the boundaries of the rights of some social groups, strata and peoples at the expense of limiting others. …”
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