17 National and International Public Spheres and the Protection of Human Rights
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Georg Lohmann
Abstract
Since the founding of the UN, the protection of human rights has been a national and international challenge. In international human rights covenants, State Parties firstly commit themselves to respecting human rights in their respective constitutional area and to protecting and possibly incorporating them into the relevant constitution, but, secondly, they also submit to an international control. National protection is usually organized by different institutions (Constitutional Court, “Human Rights Commissioner of the Government”, etc.), but also accompanied by critical NGOs and the national civil public. International protection is on the one hand implemented by a number of international organizations and institutions (Human Rights Council in Geneva, UN Human Rights Commissioner, monitoring bodies to individual contracts, regional and international human rights courts), but on the other hand is accompanied by a critical, now regionally and internationally operating public. This includes a number of permanent NGOs, but also ad hoc groups, tribunals and the various media (print, TV, internet) and anonymous campaigns on the Internet and the social networks. This paper examines the functions and tasks of such concomitant national and international public spheres and tries to assess their importance for the protection of human rights.
© 2016 by Walter de Gruyter Berlin/Boston
Artikel in diesem Heft
- Masthead
- Editorial Preface
- Contents
- 1 Preface
- 2 The Current Situation of Chinese Philosophy: Problems and Tasks
- 3 Chinese Philosophy – Philosophy in China
- I Public Sphere and Globalization
- 4 The Publicity of Reason(ing)
- 5 Digitalization: Another Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere?
- II Fundamental Philosophical Questions in Public Sphere
- 6 Pluralism, Autonomy and Public Deliberation
- 7 Kant on the Public Sphere and Some Reflections on Hannah Arendt and the Contemporary Intercultural Discussion
- 8 The Public Sphere and the Faculty of Judgment: Hannah Arendt’s Theses on Public Opinion
- 9 On Political Freedom in Public Sphere in View of the Contrast Between Téchne and Túche – A Comparison Between Arendt and Heidegger
- 10 Habermas on Instrumental Reasoning in Public Sphere
- III Public Sphere and Ethics
- 11 Republicity
- 12 Changing the Imperial Mindset
- 13 Communicative Power and the Public Sphere
- IV The Problem of Public Sphere in Asian Cultures
- 14 Public Sphere and Open Society from the Perspective of Axial Age China
- 15 How to Jointly Decide What Ought to Be Done?
- 16 The Confucian Concept of “Cheng” (Integrity) in Relation to Publicity and Justice
- V Public Sphere and Democracy
- 17 National and International Public Spheres and the Protection of Human Rights
- 18 International Justice and the Limit of Public Reason
- 19 Privacy and/in the Public Sphere
- 20 Context, Perspective and Research Method: Several Problems of the Research on Publicness
- VI Publicity and Justice
- 21 Origins of Justice Theory in China and West
- 22 Representation, Political and Juridical
- 23 Tolerance and the Legitimacy of Law
- 24 Justice, Primary Goods and Public Reason
- 25 The Ethics of Whistleblowing
- 26 Practical Wisdom in Confucian Philosophy
- 27 The Challenges of Cognitive Science to Philosophy
- 28 On “Intentionality” and “Meta- Intentionality” in Eastern and Western Philosophies of Consciousness
- 29 Marx’s Theory of the Historical Path and its Commitment to Concretization
- 30 Characteristics of Chinese Philosophy and the Chinese National Spirit
- 31 Utopisches Denken in der Chinesischen Gegenwartsphilosophie
- Bio-Bibliography
- Name Index
Artikel in diesem Heft
- Masthead
- Editorial Preface
- Contents
- 1 Preface
- 2 The Current Situation of Chinese Philosophy: Problems and Tasks
- 3 Chinese Philosophy – Philosophy in China
- I Public Sphere and Globalization
- 4 The Publicity of Reason(ing)
- 5 Digitalization: Another Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere?
- II Fundamental Philosophical Questions in Public Sphere
- 6 Pluralism, Autonomy and Public Deliberation
- 7 Kant on the Public Sphere and Some Reflections on Hannah Arendt and the Contemporary Intercultural Discussion
- 8 The Public Sphere and the Faculty of Judgment: Hannah Arendt’s Theses on Public Opinion
- 9 On Political Freedom in Public Sphere in View of the Contrast Between Téchne and Túche – A Comparison Between Arendt and Heidegger
- 10 Habermas on Instrumental Reasoning in Public Sphere
- III Public Sphere and Ethics
- 11 Republicity
- 12 Changing the Imperial Mindset
- 13 Communicative Power and the Public Sphere
- IV The Problem of Public Sphere in Asian Cultures
- 14 Public Sphere and Open Society from the Perspective of Axial Age China
- 15 How to Jointly Decide What Ought to Be Done?
- 16 The Confucian Concept of “Cheng” (Integrity) in Relation to Publicity and Justice
- V Public Sphere and Democracy
- 17 National and International Public Spheres and the Protection of Human Rights
- 18 International Justice and the Limit of Public Reason
- 19 Privacy and/in the Public Sphere
- 20 Context, Perspective and Research Method: Several Problems of the Research on Publicness
- VI Publicity and Justice
- 21 Origins of Justice Theory in China and West
- 22 Representation, Political and Juridical
- 23 Tolerance and the Legitimacy of Law
- 24 Justice, Primary Goods and Public Reason
- 25 The Ethics of Whistleblowing
- 26 Practical Wisdom in Confucian Philosophy
- 27 The Challenges of Cognitive Science to Philosophy
- 28 On “Intentionality” and “Meta- Intentionality” in Eastern and Western Philosophies of Consciousness
- 29 Marx’s Theory of the Historical Path and its Commitment to Concretization
- 30 Characteristics of Chinese Philosophy and the Chinese National Spirit
- 31 Utopisches Denken in der Chinesischen Gegenwartsphilosophie
- Bio-Bibliography
- Name Index
