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Human rights : an interdisciplinary approach / Michael Freeman.

Summary:

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: xi, 241 p. ; 22 cm.
  • Edition: 2nd ed.
  • Publisher: Cambridge : Polity, c2011.

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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.
Subject: Human rights.

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