Human rights : an interdisciplinary approach

Human rights : an interdisciplinary approach / Michael Freeman.

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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Freeman, Michael, 1936-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, UK ; Malden, MA : Polity Press, 2011.
Edition:2nd ed.
Series:Key concepts (Polity Press)
Subjects:
Human rights.
Table of Contents:
  • 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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