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The Crisis and the Quotidian in International Human Rights Law

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 June 2014

Benjamin Authers  and
Hilary Charlesworth
Benjamin Authers*
Affiliation:
Centre for International Governance and Justice, Regulatory Institutions Network, College of Asia and the Pacific, Australian National University, Acton, Australia
Hilary Charlesworth*
Affiliation:
Centre for International Governance and Justice, Regulatory Institutions Network, College of Asia and the Pacific, Australian National University, Acton, Australia
*
e-mail: benjamin.authers@anu.edu.au
e-mail: hilary.charlesworth@anu.edu.au
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Abstract

This chapter considers the idea that international human rights law is both produced by and dependent upon crisis. Surveying the capaciousness, ambiguity, and constructedness of the concept, we position the relative weight given to particular rights in terms of their framing as ‘crises’. We focus on how the idea of crisis has been differently deployed in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and in the division between civil and political rights and economic, cultural and social rights to argue for a critical engagement with the language of crisis in human rights law, and to ask how that language has shaped the value and meaning of rights discourse more generally.

Keywords

CrisisInternational human rights lawUniversal declaration of human rightsEconomic, cultural, and social rightsCivil and political rights
Type
Part I Crisis and International Law: Decoy or Catalyst?
Information
Netherlands Yearbook of International Law , Volume 44 , December 2012 , pp. 19 - 39
Copyright
Copyright © T.M.C. Asser Instituut and the Authors 2013 

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