Islamic Human Rights Discourse and Hermeneutics of Continuity

Talking human rights: How social movement activists are constructed and constrained by human rights discourse

Human rights discourse is central for the work of international social movements. Viewing human rights as a context-dependent and socially constructed discourse, this article investigates how it is used by a specific social movement – Israel-critical diaspora Jewish activists – and argues that it can simultaneously challenge and reproduce existing practices of domination. The article applies co...

"Human Rights"؛ "Citizen Rights"؛ "Human Rights Declaration"؛ " Middle Eastern States"

حقوق بشر و حقوق شهروندی از حقوق ذاتی و طبیعی انسان نشأت گرفته و در طول تاریخ بین اندیشمندان مناطق مختلف جهان و همچنین در مکاتب الهی توجه خاصی به آنها شده است. اما متاسفانه تا پایان جنگ جهانی دوم حقوق بشر بصورت گسترده اقبالی کسب ننمود. اگر چه با اعلامیه جهانی حقوق بشر سال 1948 و دیگر کنوانسیون های مربوطه، حقوق بشر شکل جهان شمولی بخود گرفته ولی هنوز بسیاری از دولتهای خاورمیانه حاضر به پذیرش تمامی...

Rights discourse and neonatal euthanasia.

Red Reason and Green Rights Illuminationist.Anthropology and Human Rights

Referential continuity and the coherence of discourse.

Two experiments were carried out to investigate the role of referential continuity in understanding discourse. In experiment I, a group of university students listened to s?ories and descriptive passages presented in three different versions: the original passages, versions in which trCze sentences occurred in a random order, and randomised versions in which referential continuity had been rest...