Human rights : a very short introduction.
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BookPublisher: New York ; Oxford : 2007Description: 193 p. : ill. ; 17 cm.ISBN: 9780199205523.Subject(s): Human RightsDDC classification: 341.48 CLA 2007 Summary: Andrew Clapham has written an outsttanding introduction to human rights lucid compelling and at home in all the disciplines that human rights relies on for intellectual nutrition He dodges none of the hard issues and is critical when this is required This is a must -read for all students of human rights and for the interested public
Conor Gearty, Director of Centre for the Study of Human Rights London School of Economics
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Contents
1. Looking at rights
2. The historical development of international human rights
3. Human Rights foreign policy and the role of the United Nations
4. The international crime of torture
5. Legitimate restrictions on freedom
6. Balancing rights-the issue of privacy
7. Food education health housing and work
8. Discrimination and equality
9. The death penalty
Final remarks
References
Further reading
Annex The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Andrew Clapham has written an outsttanding introduction to human rights lucid compelling and at home in all the disciplines that human rights relies on for intellectual nutrition He dodges none of the hard issues and is critical when this is required This is a must -read for all students of human rights and for the interested public
Conor Gearty, Director of Centre for the Study of Human Rights London School of Economics
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