Human Rights and Social Concerns

Human Rights and Social Concerns

Brian Gran (Ed.)

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"Human Rights and Social Concerns" provides concrete examples of the complex interplay between human rights principles and the various social actors involved. At a time when governments increasingly decouple themselves from human rights commitments, this book helps us to better understand the consequences of such actions and identifies possible roads that lead forward. To retreat is to guarantee a repeat of the worst calamities in modern history.

Prof. Dr. Bruce K. Friesen
University of Tampa, Florida

'Human Rights and Social Concerns' brings together scholars who examine how human rights frameworks illuminate, and sometimes fail to address, pressing social concerns across diverse societies. Contributors explore issues including migrant women’s experiences of street harassment (Valeria Bonatti and Ashley C.F. Hutson), stigma and disability in rural India (Namita Gupta and Pardeep Kumari), environmental licensing and justice in Brazil (Cassia Cardoso de Miranda), constitutional over‑regulation of families (Ágne Lux and Emese Pásztor), and the paradoxical role of human rights in environmental degradation (Haimo Schulz Meinen).

Brian Gran is a sociologist and lawyer on the faculty of Case Western Reserve University. His work examines human rights, children’s rights, and institutions that shape people’s lived experiences with rights. The first sociologist awarded the Jefferson Science Fellowship of the U.S. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Gran has advised UN bodies and other organizations on human rights, children's rights, human rights institutions, and human rights indicators. He is the author of 'The Sociology of Children’s Rights' and other works on rights and governance. His scholarship explores how rights frameworks respond to social concerns and how institutions can better protect dignity and equality.

Social problems; human rights; social concerns; global justice; law and society