Human rights : an interdisciplinary approach
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
Print Book, English, 2011
2nd ed., fully rev. and updated View all formats and editions
Polity Press, Cambridge, UK, 2011
xi, 241 pages ; 22 cm.
9780745639659, 9780745639666, 0745639658, 0745639666
1001904107
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