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176What Future for Human Rights?Ethics and International Affairs 28 (2): 213-223. 2014.Like people born shortly after World War II, the international human rights movement recently had its sixty-fifth birthday. This could mean that retirement is at hand and that death will come in a few decades. After all, the formulations of human rights that activists, lawyers, and politicians use today mostly derive from the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and the world in 1948 was very different from our world today: the cold war was about to break out, communism was a strong and opt…Read more
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58Should Undocumented Aliens Be Entitled to Health Care?Hastings Center Report 16 (6): 19-23. 1986.Congress recently decided that undocumented aliens are ineligible for medical benefits under the 1966 Medicaid Act, overruling a judicial decision that would have required the federal government to reimburse states partially for the costs of providing free care. Is providing such care simply a matter of prudence and charity? Or do illegal aliens have strong moral claims to medical care that generate duties for hospitals and government agencies?
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97Winner of The Philosophical Quarterly Essay Prize 2004: Poverty and RightsPhilosophical Quarterly 55 (220). 2005.I defend economic and social rights as human rights, and as a feasible approach to addressing world poverty. I propose a modest conception of economic and social rights that includes rights to subsistence, basic health care and basic education. The second part of the paper defends these three rights. I begin by sketching a pluralistic justificatory framework that starts with abstract norms pertaining to life, leading a life, avoiding severely cruel treatment, and avoiding severe unfairness. I ar…Read more
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93In Our Own Best Interest: How Defending Human Rights Benefits Us All, William F. Schulz , 256 pp., $25 cloth (review)Ethics and International Affairs 16 (1): 155-157. 2002.
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141Poverty and rightsPhilosophical Quarterly 55 (220). 2005.I defend economic and social rights as human rights, and as a feasible approach to addressing world poverty. I propose a modest conception of economic and social rights that includes rights to subsistence, basic health care and basic education. The second part of the paper defends these three rights. I begin by sketching a pluralistic justificatory framework that starts with abstract norms pertaining to life, leading a life, avoiding severely cruel treatment, and avoiding severe unfairness. I ar…Read more
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250Is today's international human rights system a global governance regime?The Journal of Ethics 6 (4): 353-371. 2002.Enthusiasts of the idea of globalization often view international human rights institutions as part of an emerging global governance regime. They claim that these institutions illustrate how state sovereignty is being diminished. This paper looks at the international system for thepromotion and protection of human rights aspart of normative globalization. It arguesthat this system does not constitute a systemof global governance, although in some areas itcomes close.
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122The Value of Cultural Belonging: Expanding Kymlicka's TheoryDialogue 33 (4): 635-. 1994.In his recent book, Liberalism, Community and Culture, Will Kymlicka defends collective rights for some minority groups—and particularly for indigenous peoples in North America—by trying to show that secure cultural belonging is of great value, and rights to protection and autonomy for minorities, including some collective rights, are justified by the special disadvantages some minorities face in enjoying secure cultural membership. Kymlicka defends these claims from within a liberal perspective…Read more
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145Book Review:The Case for Black Reparations. Boris I. Bittker (review)Ethics 84 (2): 180-. 1974.
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52Ethical Protections for Future Persons: Is Their Present Non-existence a Serious Problem?Journal of Business Ethics 127 (4): 717-722. 2015.
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46Bibliographical update / The nature and foundations of rightsCriminal Justice Ethics 1 (2): 64-69. 1982.
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105Can a right to health care be justified by linkage arguments?Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics 37 (4): 293-306. 2016.Linkage arguments, which defend a controversial right by showing that it is indispensable or highly useful to an uncontroversial right, are sometimes used to defend the right to health care. This article evaluates such arguments when used to defend RHC. Three common errors in using linkage arguments are neglecting levels of implementation, expanding the scope of the supported right beyond its uncontroversial domain, and giving too much credit to the supporting right for outcomes in its area. A f…Read more
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81Does Basing Rights on Autonomy Imply Obligations of Political Allegiance?Dialogue 28 (4): 531-. 1989.Charles Taylor's well-known essay, “Atomism”, criticizes libertarian theories of rights like Nozick's that make individual rights independent of any duties to belong to, support, or obey the law in the society in which those rights are to be enjoyed. Taylor argues that if one grounds rights to important liberties on the human capacity for autonomy, this commits one to the view that the development of autonomy in oneself and others is morally obligatory. Further, Taylor argues that most people ca…Read more
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97Book Review:The Moral Foundations of Civil Rights. Robert K. Fullinwinder, Claudia Mills (review)Ethics 98 (4): 842-. 1988.
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