Book contents
- Humanitarianism and Human Rights
- Human Rights in History
- Humanitarianism and Human Rights
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I Differences or Distinctions?
- 1 Human Rights and Humanitarianization
- 2 Suffering and Status
- 3 Humanitarianism and Human Rights in Morality and Practice
- 4 For a Fleeting Moment
- Part II Practices
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
2 - Suffering and Status
from Part I - Differences or Distinctions?
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 19 October 2020
- Humanitarianism and Human Rights
- Human Rights in History
- Humanitarianism and Human Rights
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I Differences or Distinctions?
- 1 Human Rights and Humanitarianization
- 2 Suffering and Status
- 3 Humanitarianism and Human Rights in Morality and Practice
- 4 For a Fleeting Moment
- Part II Practices
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
This chapter explores whether and how the history of humanitarianism and human rights can be unravelled in terms of suffering and status, respectively. A case can be made that this mapping working from the origins of each beginning in the nineteenth century, but over the last two decades provides less insight.
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