Human Rights Without Democracy?: Reconciling Freedom with Equality

Haller, Gret

 
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argues that Human Rights must be established democratically explains why, from a philosophical point of view, liberty and equality need not be mutually exclusive outlines the history of the concept of Human Rights compares how Human Rights are understood in the United States in contrast to Great Britain and Continental Europe and uncovers vast differences.

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Gret Haller is a lawyer, politician, and author. In 1987 she became a member of Swiss parliament and in 1993/94 was its Speaker, as well as a member of the Parliamentary Assemblies of the Council of Europe and OSCE. She has served as Swiss ambassador to the Council of Europe and from 1996 to 2000 was OSCE Human Rights Ombudsperson for Bosnia and Herzegovina in Sarajevo. The University of St. Gallen awarded her an honorary doctorate for her work in human rights. Her publications include Limits of Atlanticism: Perceptions of State, Nation and Religion in Europe and the United States (2007) and Menschenrechte und Volkssouveränität in Europa. Gerichte als Vormund der Demokratie? (with Klaus Günther adn Ulfrid Neumann, Campus Verlag 2011).

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