The sense, meaning, and significance of the Twin International Covenants on Political and Economic Rights
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Clara Chapdelaine-Feliciati
Clara Chapdelaine-Feliciati (b.1981) is a lawyer and a PhD student at the University of Oxford 〈clara.feliciati@exeter.ox.ac.uk 〉. Her research interests include the semiotics of law, international law, human rights, children's rights, and criminal justice. Her publications include “The right to food for children in Brazil: A ‘modest proposal’?” (2005); “Restorative justice for the girl child in post-conflict Rwanda” (2006); “Child justice in Canada and the four Ps: protection, prosecution, prevention and participation” (2007); and “Les droits de l’homme de la femme: polysémie ou androcentrisme?” (2010).
Abstract
The drafting process of international human rights instruments exemplifies the import of terminology. Government representatives meet over the course of years to discuss every word enshrined in international instruments. They understand that terminology determines the scope of rights and corresponding duties both legally, as such instruments are binding, and symbolically, as they constitute an apparatus of signs through which the existence of rights becomes universally acknowledged. The purpose of this article is to apply Lady Welby's Threefold Laws of Meaning to the Twin Covenants of the International Bill of Rights: the Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. First, this article will explore the Sense, Meaning and Significance of the original single Covenant and its subsequent division into twin Covenants. Second, it will provide a comparative analysis of the terminology defining States Parties obligations in the Twin Covenants. Third, it will examine two additional distinctive characteristics of the Twin Covenants: the absence/presence of a remedy and the Human Rights Committee. Lastly, this article will consider the ultimate Significance of terminology in the Twin Covenants as regards the implementation and universal recognition of Economic Rights, and the Promised Land of Human Rights.
About the author
Clara Chapdelaine-Feliciati (b.1981) is a lawyer and a PhD student at the University of Oxford 〈clara.feliciati@exeter.ox.ac.uk〉. Her research interests include the semiotics of law, international law, human rights, children's rights, and criminal justice. Her publications include “The right to food for children in Brazil: A ‘modest proposal’?” (2005); “Restorative justice for the girl child in post-conflict Rwanda” (2006); “Child justice in Canada and the four Ps: protection, prosecution, prevention and participation” (2007); and “Les droits de l’homme de la femme: polysémie ou androcentrisme?” (2010).
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Artikel in diesem Heft
- Masthead
- Introduction
- Lady Welby and Lady Petrilli
- Victoria Lady Welby – A pioneer of semiotic thought rediscovered by Susan Petrilli
- The life of significance: Cultivating ingenuity no less than signs
- Mother sense and the image schema of the gift
- Signification, common knowledge, and womanhood: The significs of Lady Victoria Welby and beyond
- Science: The question of its limits
- Susan Petrilli's archival research on Victoria Welby and its implications for future scholarly inquiry
- The “dialogue” between Victoria Lady Welby and Mikhail Bakhtin – Reading Susan Petrilli's Signifying and Understanding
- Christine Ladd-Franklin's and Victoria Welby's correspondence with Charles Peirce
- Tracing signs of a developing science: On the correspondence between Victoria Lady Welby and Charles S. Peirce
- Signs, senses and cognition: Lady Welby and contemporary semiotics
- Space and time: Continuity in the correspondence between Charles Peirce and Victoria Welby
- Significs and semiotics: Chronicle of an encounter foretold
- Hic et nunc: Evidence from canine zoosemiotics
- Lady Welby: Significs and the interpretive mind
- The translating and signifying subject as homo interpres and homo significans: Victoria Welby's concept of translation – a polyfunctional tool
- Semiosis and intersemiotic translation
- Signs, translation, and life in the Bakhtin circle and in Welby's significs
- Significs and mathematics: Creative and other subjects
- The sense, meaning, and significance of the Twin International Covenants on Political and Economic Rights
- Significal Designs: Translating for meanings that truly matter
- Mysticism and mind in Welby's significs
- On the translatability of liturgical texts: A significal perspective
- Money and metaphor in Welby Prize winner F. Tönnies' “Philosophical terminology”: Some critical considerations
- Lady Welby and logic
- Willing science – observing nature: Welby and Latour lift the veil
- In search of the other: Reading Victoria Welby's significs
- The aphasic utterance: A significal perspective
- The articulate music of language in The King's Speech
- Applying significs
- Presentation: Two texts at the beginning of a research itinerary. From significs to semioethics
- Theory of meaning and theory of knowledge: Vailati and Welby
- Sign and meaning in Victoria Welby and Mikhail Bakhtin: A confrontation
- Early recognitions of Welby's significs and the movement it inspired in the Netherlands
Artikel in diesem Heft
- Masthead
- Introduction
- Lady Welby and Lady Petrilli
- Victoria Lady Welby – A pioneer of semiotic thought rediscovered by Susan Petrilli
- The life of significance: Cultivating ingenuity no less than signs
- Mother sense and the image schema of the gift
- Signification, common knowledge, and womanhood: The significs of Lady Victoria Welby and beyond
- Science: The question of its limits
- Susan Petrilli's archival research on Victoria Welby and its implications for future scholarly inquiry
- The “dialogue” between Victoria Lady Welby and Mikhail Bakhtin – Reading Susan Petrilli's Signifying and Understanding
- Christine Ladd-Franklin's and Victoria Welby's correspondence with Charles Peirce
- Tracing signs of a developing science: On the correspondence between Victoria Lady Welby and Charles S. Peirce
- Signs, senses and cognition: Lady Welby and contemporary semiotics
- Space and time: Continuity in the correspondence between Charles Peirce and Victoria Welby
- Significs and semiotics: Chronicle of an encounter foretold
- Hic et nunc: Evidence from canine zoosemiotics
- Lady Welby: Significs and the interpretive mind
- The translating and signifying subject as homo interpres and homo significans: Victoria Welby's concept of translation – a polyfunctional tool
- Semiosis and intersemiotic translation
- Signs, translation, and life in the Bakhtin circle and in Welby's significs
- Significs and mathematics: Creative and other subjects
- The sense, meaning, and significance of the Twin International Covenants on Political and Economic Rights
- Significal Designs: Translating for meanings that truly matter
- Mysticism and mind in Welby's significs
- On the translatability of liturgical texts: A significal perspective
- Money and metaphor in Welby Prize winner F. Tönnies' “Philosophical terminology”: Some critical considerations
- Lady Welby and logic
- Willing science – observing nature: Welby and Latour lift the veil
- In search of the other: Reading Victoria Welby's significs
- The aphasic utterance: A significal perspective
- The articulate music of language in The King's Speech
- Applying significs
- Presentation: Two texts at the beginning of a research itinerary. From significs to semioethics
- Theory of meaning and theory of knowledge: Vailati and Welby
- Sign and meaning in Victoria Welby and Mikhail Bakhtin: A confrontation
- Early recognitions of Welby's significs and the movement it inspired in the Netherlands
