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- Lindkvist, Linde, et al.
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Det omstridda samvetet
- 2021
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Ingår i: Samvete i Sverige : Om lydnad och frihet från medeltiden till idag - Om lydnad och frihet från medeltiden till idag. - : Nordic Academic Press (Kriterium). - 2002-2131 .- 2004-1659. - 9789188909688 - 9789188909701 ; 32, s. 7-28
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- Lindkvist, Linde, Högskolelektor, 1985-
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1979: a Year of the Child, but Not of Children’s Human Rights
- 2019
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Ingår i: Diplomatica. - : Brill. - 2589-1766 .- 2589-1774. ; 1:2, s. 202-220
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article explores the diplomatic contestations over children’s rights in connection to the International Year of the Child (iyc) of 1979. At the time, the Year was celebrated as an outstanding success, an event which helped to heighten social and political awareness of the status of children in both developing and industrialized countries, and which brought to light a plethora of new global issues, including street children, children with disabilities and children in armed conflict. Today, the iyc is frequently reduced to a plotting point in histories charting the rise of an international discourse of children’s rights, a discourse that is intimately linked to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child of 1989. This article shows how the concept of children’s rights was of peripheral importance to the overarching purposes of the iyc, which instead revolved around a notion of child welfare as integral to wider projects of social and economic development, either in the form of economic sovereignty or basic needs. The article then revisits the 1978–1979 UN debates on a human rights treaty for children, showing how this project initially garnered minimal support among states, international agencies and non-state actors. The article thus takes issue with teleological accounts that see the iyc primarily as a first step toward the subsequent breakthrough of children’s human rights. It also showcases how historical case studies of UN observances can be fruitful for scholars interested in the clashes and amalgamations of competing concepts and projects at an international level.
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- Lindkvist, Linde, et al.
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Can Stereotyping Be Banned?
- 2013
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Ingår i: Religious Stereotyping and Interreligious Relations. - 9781137344601
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- Lindkvist, Linde, Högskolelektor, 1985-
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Drömmen om en opolitisk politik
- 2015
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Ingår i: Respons : recensionstidskrift för humaniora & samhällsvetenskap. - 2001-2292. ; 4
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Recension (populärvet., debatt m.m.)
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- Lindkvist, Linde, Högskolelektor, 1985-
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Fördömande och förverkligande : Om förväntningarna på FN:s råd för mänskliga rättigheter
- 2018
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Ingår i: Mänskliga rättigheter i samhället. - Malmö : Bokbox Förlag. - 9789186980702 ; , s. 253-272
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Det här kapitlet fokuserar på FN:s råd för mänskliga rättigheter (MR-rådet). Mer specifikt handlar det om vilka förväntningar som är rimliga att ställa på internationella politiska organ för främjande av mänskliga rättigheter. Efter en analys av den kritik som riktats mot MR-rådet från olika människorättsorganisationer, lyfter kapitlet en rad övergripande frågor om hur internationella organisationer kan arbeta för den faktiska efterlevnaden av mänskliga rättigheter. MR-rådet har precis som sin föregångare (FN:s kommission för mänskliga rättigheter) kritiserats för sin “politisering” av människorättsfrågor samt för sin selektiva användning av fördömande resolutioner. Som kapitlet visar bottnar den här kritiken i föreställningar om att mänskliga rättigheter i grund och botten skulle vara “opolitiska” frågor, samt att kritiska uttalanden från internationella organisationer är viktiga steg mot ökad efterlevnad. Kapitlet avslutas med att plädera för att det stora värdet med FN:s arbete med mänskliga rättigheter består i att förse individer och lokala rörelser med ett brokigt normativt ramverk, som i många fall visat sig vara ett gångbart redskap för att utmana sociala och politiska orättvisor. Att det internationella systemet för mänskliga rättigheter inte “fungerar” är därför inget direkt hot mot mänskliga rättigheter som redskap för politisk förändring.
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- Lindkvist, Linde, Högskolelektor, 1985-
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Religious Freedom and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
- 2017
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Bok (refereegranskat)abstract
- Article 18 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948) is widely considered to be the most influential statement on religious freedom in human history. Religious Freedom and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights provides a groundbreaking account of its origins and developments, examining the background, key players, and outcomes of Article 18, and setting it within the broader discourse around international religious freedom in the 1940s. Taking issue with standard accounts that see the text of the Universal Declaration as humanity's joint response to the atrocities of World War II, it shows instead how central features of Article 18 were intimately connected to the political projects and visions of particular actors involved in the start-up of the UN Human Rights program. This will be essential reading for anyone grappling with the historical and contemporary meaning of human rights and religious freedom.
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- Lindkvist, Linde, Lektor, 1985-
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Rights for the World's Children : Radda Barnen and the Making of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child
- 2018
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Ingår i: Nordic Journal of Human Rights. - : ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD. - 1891-8131 .- 1891-814X. ; 36:3, s. 287-303
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) from 1989 remains the most widely ratified treaty on human rights and functions as a normative frame for myriads of actors working to promote the rights of children. The scholarship on the convention recognises that non-governmental organisations were crucial to the drafting of the treaty. Some of these accounts also single out the Swedish Save the Children Federation (Radda Barnen) as significant for facilitating non-governmental cooperation and shaping the drafting group discussions. Drawing on archival and published first-hand sources, the paper adds to the available accounts, first by outlining some of the developments that led Radda Barnen to embrace the concept of children's rights in the 1970s and become involved in drafting of UNCRC in the 1980s. The paper then reveals how the organisation engaged creatively with the concept of children's rights in the drafting process and succeeded in framing children in armed conflict and female genital mutilation as rights issues, effectively challenging some of the conventional boundaries of international human rights law. But the paper also points to the limits of Radda Barnen's influence and suggests that its creative engagement took place within a relatively conventional framework of child protection.
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- Lindkvist, Linde, Docent, 1985-, et al.
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Samvete i Sverige : om frihet och lydnad från medeltiden till idag
- 2021
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Bok (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Vi lever i en tid då tankar om samvete och samvetsfrihet syns allt oftare i svensk offentlighet i rikspolitiken, på tidningarnas ledarsidor och i sociala medier. Historiskt sett har de båda begreppen använts för att markera en viss mån av frihet eller en skyddad position i moraliska, politiska och rättsliga konflikter.Hänvisningar till en enskild människas samvete och skillnader mellan en inre och en yttre domstol har kunnat legitimera befrielse från religiösa och statliga tvångsmekanismer och motiverat exempelvis vapen- eller abortvägran.En grupp forskare i historia, mänskliga rättigheter, rätts-vetenskap, etik och religionssociologi tar här ett gemensamt grepp om några av de mest brännande konflikterna kring samvete och samvetsfrihet i Sverige från medeltiden till idag. Fram träder en bild av komplexa och motspänstiga begrepp som även idag bär påtagliga spår av äldre distinktioner och historiska konfliktsammanhang.
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- Lindkvist, Linde
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Shrines and Souls: The Reinvention of Religious Liberty and the Genesis of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
- 2014
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Shrines and Souls provides a multi-layered contextualization of the article on religious liberty in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (Article 18), which was propounded by the United Nations General Assembly on December 10, 1948. It shows how the framers of the Declaration decided to break with some of the conventional ways of framing religious liberty in international law, by foregrounding the inner freedom of thought and conscience instead of the free exercise of religion, by directly recognizing the right to change religion or belief, and by restricting the human rights framework to the rights of individuals. It argues that these decisions can be traced back to a set of particular concerns and ideological standpoints of some of the central agents involved in this process. By drawing on the official UN records, a wide range of published sources, and hitherto underexplored archival material, it reveals the significance of the Lebanese diplomat and philosopher, Charles Malik, and the representative of the then newly established Commission of the Churches on International Affairs, O. Frederick Nolde, in determining the orientation of the text. However, it also reveals how their proposals to include references protecting the rights of religious groups and corporations fell short due to the opposition of the American states—spearheaded by the United States—and France, which favored a text that would chime with policies of national assimilation and state-church separation. This work distinguishes itself from other studies of the origins of the Universal Declaration by focusing on how the framers made use of the concepts of human rights and religious liberty in context-bound political arguments, and how these uses in turn affected the text’s architecture. By directing attention to the particular battles in the negotiations on the text, Shrines and Souls takes issue with many of the dominant ways of narrating the emergence of the Universal Declaration, including accounts that present the text as the international community’s response to the atrocities of World War II. In a broadening chapter, it provides a unique exploration of how the concepts of human rights and religious liberty operated in the preparatory work for the Partition Plan for Palestine of November 29, 1947. This document also contained clauses on religion and rights, but here the main emphasis is on the rights of religious communities rather than the individual freedom of choice. This study argues that the differences between these two ways of articulating religious liberty and rights in the context of the early United Nations were largely a function of the documents’ differences in genre. Whereas the Partition Plan addressed a complex geo-political situation and a wide range of competing interests, the Universal Declaration was a non-binding, educational text, intended to outline the moral horizon for nations to strive towards, and which therefore could bypass difficult issues of implementation. This feature of the Declaration meant that it was fertile ground for unconventional enunciations of rights-principles, including the seemingly ancient idea of religious liberty.
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- Lindkvist, Linde, Högskolelektor, 1985-
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The Child Subject of Human Rights
- 2020
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Ingår i: The Subject of Human Rights. - Stanford : Stanford University Press. - 9781503613195 ; , s. 211-227
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- Lindkvist, Linde, Högskolelektor, 1985-
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When the War Came : The Child Rights Convention and the Conflation of Human Rights and the Laws of War
- 2019
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Ingår i: The Routledge History of Human Rights. - Abingdon : Routledge. - 9781000627459
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989) remains the most widely ratified international treaty on human rights. Since its completion in 1989, it has come to be seen as an authoritative statement on the human rights of children. Yet historians of human rights have so far paid little attention to the making of this document. This essay argues that the child rights convention – much like other treaties on the rights of specific groups – is of interest to historians, and not just because it recognized children as subjects of human rights. Many of the convention’s articles also challenged traditional boundaries between human rights and other areas of international law and policy. The essay examines in depth the debates surrounding the child rights convention’s Article 38 on children in armed conflict, a clause that has been widely discussed among human rights and child rights scholars because it failed to offer a strict age limit of 18 years for military recruitment and participation. What is rarely noted, however, is that Article 38 also marked the first time that a human rights treaty made a direct reference to humanitarian law, which in effect threw into question the conventional view that human rights law should not regulate the conduct of warfare. This essay illuminates in new ways the relationship between human rights and international humanitarian law.
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- Namli, Elena, 1966-, et al.
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Human Vulnerability and Vulnerable Rights : On Children’s Rights and Asylum Politics in Sweden
- 2018
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Ingår i: Unaccompanied Migrant Children. - : Lexington Books. ; , s. 121-137
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- How does human vulnerability relate to human dignity and human rights? Are human rights an instrument of reducing or even overcoming vulnerability in order for human beings to secure their autonomy, agency, and dignity? An affirmative answer to this question is a traditional approach within human rights studies and human rights practices.In this chapter we challenge this view by addressing the situation of unaccompanied minors seeking asylum in contemporary Sweden.
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- Namli, Elena, 1966-, et al.
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Human Vulnerability and Vulnerable Rights. : On Children's Rights and Asylum Politics in Sweden.
- 2019
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Ingår i: Unaccompanied Migrant Children. - : Lexington Books. - 9781498574525 ; , s. 121-137
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Vulnerability is a part of human existence, a substantial dimension of what it means to be human. As several scholars have convincingly argued, the concept of vulnerability challenges any attempt to reduce the question of human dignity to a protection of individual autonomy.We contribute to the discussion by arguing in favor of a more dialectical understanding of the relation between vulnerability and human rights. We start off with a short presentation of our view of the Swedish case of medical age assessments. In the next step we formulate what appears to be a paradox—the Swedish state incorporating the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) and, simultaneously, enforcing inhumane restrictions on the rights of young asylum seekers. We proceed by deconstructing the paradox and arguing that these seemingly conflicting trends can be explained as manifestations of two different but interrelated dimensions of the current human rights culture, namely, juridification of human rights protection and reduction of vulnerability to a function of age. In the concluding part of the chapter we offer a critical reflection on the relation between authentic human rights protection and human vulnerability.
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Samvete i Sverige : Om lydnad och frihet från medeltiden till idag
- 2021
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (refereegranskat)abstract
- In recent years, ideas of conscience and the liberty of conscience have become ever more salient in public discourse. Historically, these concepts have been used to mark out a certain scope of freedom and protection in moral, political and legal conflicts. In our time, individual conscience is frequently used to legitimate objections to, for instance, military service and medical interventions like abortion and vaccination. So too in Sweden – a country widely described as one of the most modern and secularized societies in the world. In this volume, a group of researchers in history, human rights, law, ethics and sociology of religion address some of the most central issues around conscience and the liberty of conscience in Sweden from the middle ages to the present. By situating conscience and liberty in wider intellectual, social and political settings, the essays provide alternative ways of thinking about the most intractable problems surrounding these concepts – the relationship between law and morality, the tension between individual and collective freedom, as well as the role of religion in public affairs. This volume will create new avenues of research for scholars and students interested in challenges related to conscience and liberty: both those in ethics, politics and law seeking a historical perspective, and those in history who want to tie their studies to the present.
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- Sundkvist, Emma, Högskolelektor
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Human rights as law, language, and space-making : women’s rights movement in post-revolutionary Egypt
- 2022
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This dissertation analyses feminist activists’ use of human rights in post-revolutionary Egypt from 2011 to 2019. Drawing on interviews with feminist activists under three fieldwork trips, the dissertation investigates how: activists tried to implement gender equality in the country’s new constitutions, navigated the shrinking public space after 2013, sustained their activism against sexual violence despite a fragmented movement and repressive politics, and how we can understand contentious streets activism against sexual violence from a human rights perspective. The overarching question is how activists pursue human rights activism in a post-revolutionary setting, focusing on what function human rights are given in a context of some opportunities but also growing constraints. To answer that question, the dissertation develops a three-dimensional framework that conceptualises human rights as law, language, and space-making. The dissertation thereby contributes to theories of human rights activism as well as research on women’s rights activism in post-2011 Egypt. The three-dimensional framework helps to capture and analyse how human rights – whether used as law, language, or space-making – challenge different societal and political aspects of women’s rights.The findings and arguments draw primarily on semi-structured and in-depth interviews conducted under fieldwork trips in 2013, 2015, and 2019. The study also involves ethnographic observations and text analysis. The analysis of these source materials is based on the ontological position that to know what human rights are, we need to explore how activists use human rights and the ways in which they navigate their political surrounding. This position invites scholars to avoid applying pre-defined understandings of human rights and instead investigate how certain political conditions facilitate different modes of activism and what meanings and functions human rights acquire in them.The thesis comprises four original articles. Article 1 concerns the drafting of two Egyptian constitutions after 2011 and how feminist activists attempted to integrate gender equality into different versions. The article argues that while activists used international human rights principles and a feminist definition of equality as their starting points, they also had to navigate the politics of the Egyptian constitution-making process to find resonance within their communities. Article 2 analyses the period after 2013, a period when the Egyptian political landscape became more oppressive under the rule of President Abd el Fattah el-Sisi. This article focuses on how activists pursued human rights advocacy during such conditions. It argues that, in a context where mobilization and activism for human rights are restricted, legal activism may have means and implications other than reinforcing state power. Article 3 concerns how young feminists try to sustain their activism, especially in their work against sexual violence, which became rather fragmented in the decade since the revolution. The empirical material comes from 2019, a point at which women’s rights were integrated with revolutionary memories and emotions and gained a function of keeping the feminist struggle alive. The final Article 4 analyses the movement against widespread sexual violence in the turbulent political landscape from 2011 to 2013. By developing the concept of human rights as space-making, this article reveals how activism for women’s right to bodily integrity transformed into a movement that claimed women’s rights to reconstitute the preconditions for Egyptian politics.
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- Vik, Hanne Hagtvedt, et al.
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Histories of Human Rights in the Nordic Countries
- 2018
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Ingår i: Nordic Journal of Human Rights. - : ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD. - 1891-8131 .- 1891-814X. ; 36:3, s. 189-201
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- Do the Nordics warrant the label 'global good Samaritans' in human rights promotion? Is the Nordic welfare state a close to perfect realisation of human rights norms? Alternatively, do Nordic international and domestic human rights policies constitute a peculiar 'Nordic human rights paradox' where norms are supported internationally while not being implemented at home? In what is the first collection of articles on Nordic human rights history, we take issue with previous scholarship, finding it often to be unsubstantiated and lacking a basis in historical contexts and relevant source materials. This also includes the stream of historical studies in the past decade, where, until recently, the Nordic countries have represented something of a blind spot. However, the lack of prior interest in the region means there are several promising avenues for historical investigations of both the Nordic countries in human rights history and the role of human rights in the history of the region.
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