Human Rights, Southern Voices: Francis Deng, Abdullahi an-Na'im, Yash Ghai and Upendra Baxi
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A just international order and a healthy cosmopolitan discipline of law need to include perspectives that take account of the standpoints, interests, concerns and beliefs of non-Western people and traditions. The dominant scholarly and activist discourses about human rights have developed largely without reference to these other viewpoints. Claims about universality sit uneasily with ignorance of other traditions and parochial or ethnocentric tendencies. The object of the book is to make accessible the ideas of four jurists who present distinct 'Southern' perspectives on human rights.
Acknowledgments ix1 Introduction William Twining 12 Francis Mading Deng 42.1 Introduction 4Readings 92.2 The Cow and the Thing Called "What": Dinka Cultural Perspectives on Wealth and Poverty 92.3 Human rights, universalism and democracy 30(a) Traditional institutions and participatory democracy in Africa 30(b) Globalisation and localisation of democracy in the African context 33(c) Universalism versus relativism in cultural contextualization of human rights 36(d) Cultural constraints on the universality of human rights 39(e) Dinka moral values and human rights principles 422.4 A cultural approach to human rights among the Dinka 442.5 Suggestions for further reading 523 Abdullahi An-Na'im 533.1 Introduction 53Readings 583.2 Context and methodology: the Second Message of Islam 583.3 Shari'a and basic human rights concerns 623.4 Cultural legitimation: Towards a cross-cultural approach to defining international standards of human rights: The meaning of cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment 793.5 Islam and the secular state 91(a) Why Muslims need a secular state 91(b) Islam, Shari'a, and constitutionalism: non-Muslims 94(c) Audiences 96(d) Inclusive public debate 97(e) Secularism in context 983.6 Economic, social and cultural rights (ESCR) 983.7 Suggestions for further reading 1024 Yash Ghai 1044.1 Introduction 104Readings 1094.2 Universalism and relativism: human rights as a framework for negotiating interethnic claims 109Introduction 109(a) Relativism: a critical assessment 113(b) Generalizations from national studies 1154.3 Understandinghuman rights in Asia 1204.4 Quotations 150(a) The Asian values debate 150(b) Confucianism 151(c) Hong Kong's Basic Law 151(d) The nature of economic, social, and cultural rights 152(e) The Justiciability of economic, social, and cultural rights 152(f) Poverty and human rights 154(g) Post-modernism, globalization, and the nation state 1554.5 Suggestions for further reading 1565 Upendra Baxi 1575.1 Introduction 157Readings 1625.2 Voices of suffering and the future of human rights 1625.3 Rights and "development" 204(a) "Development", "terror" and the posthuman world 204(b) Gandhi and development 207(c) Time and development: The Millennium Development Goals 2085.4 Suggestions for further reading 2106 Conclusion William Twining 211Bibliography 222Index 231
