HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE 21ST CENTURY: BETWEEN CRISIS AND A NEW BEGINNING Cover Image

ЉУДСКА ПРАВА У XXI ВЕКУ: ИЗМЕЂУ КРИЗЕ И НОВОГ ПОЧЕТКА
HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE 21ST CENTURY: BETWEEN CRISIS AND A NEW BEGINNING

Author(s): Miodrag Jovanović, Ivana Krstić
Subject(s): International Law, Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Civil Society
Published by: Правни факултет Универзитета у Београду
Keywords: Universal Declaration; Fragmentation of international law; Universality of human rights; Crisis of human rights;

Summary/Abstract: The authors tend to sketch the up to now development of international human rights law. In that respect, they emphasize that the development of this field of law represents а significant improvement of the classical international law, insofar as it recognized the legal subjectivity of individuals, and fostered the creation of a global civil society. The document that paved the way for this development was the 1948 Universal Declaration on Human Rights. Six decades later, it is possible, however, to trace certain signs of crisis of the human rights project. Its promoters often propagate some sort of exclusivism of this field of law, thus contributing to the fragmentation of public international law.

  • Issue Year: 57/2009
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 3-13
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: Serbian