Between Rights and Responsibilities: A Fundamental Debate

Between Rights and Responsibilities: A Fundamental Debate

Douglass Cassel, Notre Dame Law School
Barbara Fick, Notre Dame Law School

Description

Book Chapters

Douglass Cassel, Steering Clear of the Twin Shoals of a Rights-Based Morality and a Duty-Based Legality, in Between Rights and Responsibilities: A Fundamental Debate 51 (Stephan Parmentier, Hans Werdmödler and Michaël Merrigan eds., 2016).

Chapter Contents
The Poverty of a Rights-Based Morality
A Religious Perspective
Affirmative Duties in International Human Rights Instruments

  • Universal Declaration of Human Rights
  • American Declaration of the Rights and Duties of Man
  • African Charter of Human and Peoples' Rights

Duties as Restrictions on Rights
Codifications of Duites
'Horizontal' versus 'Vertical' Duties
Conclusion

Barbara Fick, Human Rights in a Globalising Economy: Rights and Responsibilities of Trade Unions, in Between Rights and Responsibilities: A Fundamental Debate 113 (Stephan Parmentier, Hans Werdmödler and Michaël Merrigan eds., 2016).

Chapter Contents
Introduction Unions as Beneficiaries of Human Rights Protection
The 'Traditional' Role of Trade Unions
The Importance for Unions to Perform a Broader Role
Are Trade Unions Fulfilling their Responsibility?
The Way Ahead