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The Contributions of Professor Amartya Sen in the Field of Human Rights
Full text linkThis paper analyses the work of the Nobel Prize winning economist Professor Amartya Sen from the perspective of human rights. It assesses the ways in which Sen's research agenda has deepened and expanded human rights discourse in the disciplines of ethics and economics, and examines how his work has promoted cross-fertilisation and integration on this subject across traditional disciplinary divides. The paper suggests that Sen's development of a 'scholarly bridge' between human rights and economics is an important and innovative contribution that has methodological as well as substantive importance and that provides a prototype and stimuli for future research. It also establishes that the idea of fundamental freedoms and human rights is itself an important gateway into understanding the nature, scope and significance of Sen's research. The paper concludes with a brief assessment of the challenges to be addressed in taking Sen's contributions in the field of human rights forward.Amartya Sen, human rights, poverty, freedom, obligation, capability approach, meta-rights, entitlements, opportunity freedom, liberty-rights
The holes in the UK levelling up strategy: key omissions from the government’s metrics
No full textPolly Vizard assesses the suite of metrics the government proposes to use to measure the delivery of its ‘levelling up’ objectives, and which will remain relevant if the policy is not dropped by Boris Johnson’s successor
Antecedents of the Idea of Human Rights: A Survey of Perspectives
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The Equality and Human Rights Commission: a new point of departure in the battle against discrimination and disadvantage
No full textConclusion Towards a ‘Working Model’ of International Accountability and Responsibility in the Field of Global Poverty and Human Rights
No full textIs Poverty Relevant to the Characterization of Fundamental Freedoms and Human Rights? The Broader Debates in Ethics and Political Theory
No full textDeveloping and agreeing a capability list in the British context: What can be learnt from social survey data on ‘rights’?
Full text linkThe paper examines what can be learnt about the 'valuation' of freedoms and opportunities (or capabilities) using a general population social survey data source on values. On the assumption that rights can be understood as protecting underlying critical freedoms and opportunities, social survey data on public attitudes towards the rights that people "should have" is interpreted as providing empirical evidence on the 'valuation' of freedoms and opportunities by individuals and groups. The paper addresses the extent to which data of this type provides empirical evidence of the 'valuation' of the 10 domains of freedom and opportunity that are specified in the capability lists for adults and children that have been developed and applied in previous projects (namely, Life; Health; Physical security; Legal security; Standard of living; Education and learning; Productive and valued activities; Individual, family and social life; Identity and self-respect; Participation, influence and voice). Particular emphasis is put on moving beyond the 'legalistic' methodology for deriving a 'human rights-based capability list' applied in previous projects, and examining whether empirical research on values provides an alternative, overlapping or supplementary informational base for deriving a list of this type. The research findings can be interpreted as providing broad empirical underpinnings for the 'valuation' of nine out of the ten domains of freedom and opportunity specified in the capability lists that have been developed and applied in previous projects. The Life domain was effectively not covered by the research exercise, since the underlying social survey data did not include questions on public attitudes towards the right to life.Capability approach, capability lists, human rights, public attitudes, values
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