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.
Michael Freeman is a research professor in the Department of Government at the University of Essex. He has given lectures at universities in more than 20 countries and has published extensively on the theory and practice of human rights.
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