Introducing readers to the theory and practice of human rights, this text emphasises how the experiences of the victims of human rights violations are related to legal, philosophical and social-scientific approaches to human rights.
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ISBN:9780745639666 (pbk.)
ISBN:0745639666 (pbk.)
ISBN:9780745639659 (hbk.)
ISBN:0745639658 (hbk.)
Physical Description:print xi, 241 p. ; 22 cm.
Edition:2nd ed.
Publisher:Cambridge : Polity, c2011.
Content descriptions
General Note:
Previous ed.: 2002.
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 212]-234) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Introduction: thinking about human rights -- Origins: the rise and fall of natural rights -- After 1945: the new age of rights -- Theories of human rights -- The role of the social sciences -- Universality, diversity and difference: culture and human rights -- The politics of human rights -- Globalization, development and poverty: economics and human rights -- Human rights in the twenty-first century.
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