Human Rights after 75 Years of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Borhan Uddin Khan, Ph.D., School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, is currently a Professor in the Department of Law, University of Dhaka and also an advisor and adjunct Professor in the Department of Law, Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB). His recently coedited book publication is: Human Rights and International Criminal Law (Brill/Nijhoff, 2022). Md Jahid Hossain Bhuiyan, Ph.D., The University of Queensland, Australia, is currently an Associate Professor at the Department of Law, Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB). He is the co-editor of Human Rights and International Criminal Law (Brill/Nijhoff, 2022).

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Part 1

Nature and Development of International Human Rights Law

1 Seventy-Five Years after the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: Reflections on Contemporary Discourse of Human Rights from the Global South

  Borhan Uddin Khan and Md Jahid Hossain Bhuiyan



2 Development of International Human Rights Law after the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

  Borhan Uddin Khan and Jobair Alam



3 Is the Universal Declaration of Human Rights Truly Universal?

  Thamil Venthan Ananthavinayagan



4 The Implementation and Enforcement of International Human Rights Law: Reflections on the Drafting History of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

  Anthony T. Cullen



Part 2

Interaction between Human Rights and Other Key Regimes

5 Human Rights and International Trade: Making the wto Human Rights Friendly

  M Rafiqul Islam



6 Foreign Direct Investment and the Protection of Human Rights in the Host States

  Nakib Muhammad Nasrullah



7 Progressing by Minimising the Gap? Corporate Social Responsibility and Business and Human Rights Notions in the UN Initiatives for Human Rights in Business

  Mia Mahmudur Rahim



8 The Interconnection of Human Rights and Climate Change: Framing Climate Change Litigation from a Human Rights Perspective

  Shawkat Alam



9 Climate Change and Human Rights: Setting Loss and Damage in a Context

  Abdullah Al Faruque



10 Human Rights Paradox in the International Intellectual Property Regime: Setting the Pecking Order

  Mohammad Towhidul Islam and Sadman Rizwan Apurbo



11 Refugee Protection and Human Rights

  Özlem Gürakar Skribeland



12 A ‘Brand-New’ Human Right at Work?: Implications of Incorporating a Safe and Healthy Working Environment into the ilo’s Fundamental Principles and Rights Framework

  Bas Rombouts



13 Shaping the Humanitarian Sphere: The Profound Influence of udhr on International Humanitarian Law

  Sanoj Rajan



14 Rape and Other Forms of Sexual Offences as International Crimes and the impact of Human Rights Law

  Manjida Ahamed



15 The Construction of Humanitarian Consent of Non-state Armed Groups

  Matthias Vanhullebusch



Part 3

Human Rights of Vulnerable Population

16 Drawing Inspiration from the udhr: Lessons about Understanding the Role of Law in Protecting Minority Rights

  Joshua Castellino



17 The udhr, and the Rise and Fall of Group Rights in International Human Rights Law

  Mohammad Shahabuddin



18 The udhr, Children’s Rights, and the Global South

  Elvis Fokala, Laura Lundy, and Noam Peleg



19 Women’s Rights and the Right to Freedom of Religion or Belief: The Long Road to Addressing Sexual Discrimination and Gender Inequality

  Md Jahid Hossain Bhuiyan



Part 4

Key Contemporary Challenges and Issues

20 The Test of Human Rights in the Era of the covid-19 Pandemic: An Evaluation of Australian Responses

  Tanzim Afroz, Haydn Rigby, Jamie Paterson and Mostafa Naser



21 Harmonising Human Rights and Religion: State-Religion Identification in a Changing World

  Borhan Uddin Khan and Md. Al Ifran Hossain Mollah



22 Nationality, Statelessness, and Human Rights: Does ‘Everyone’ Really Have the Right to Nationality under Article 15 of the udhr?

  Md Jobair Alam and Md Naimul Hasan



23 udhr and Modern Slavery: Exploring the Vulnerability Approach to Address Migrants’ Slavery-Like Situations

  Jamal Barnes, Joshua Aston, Mostafa Naser and Tanzim Afroz



24 Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights under Modern International Human Rights Law: Transformation of the Non-justiciable Moral Statement in the udhr to Justiciable Rights

  Muhammad Ekramul Haque



25 Modern Discourses on the Nature of Human Rights: Towards a Relational Normativity

  Matthias Vanhullebusch



Index