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
3 - Humanitarianism and Human Rights in Morality and Practice
from Part I - Differences or Distinctions?
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 19 October 2020
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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
Summary
This chapter examines whether there are meaningful differences between human rights and humanitarianism in terms of perfect and imperfect duties, and concludes that this is a false parallel and that increasingly humanitarianism and human rights are blurring the distinction between the two in terms of their practices.
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- Humanitarianism and Human RightsA World of Differences?, pp. 71 - 88Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020