The volume begins with an outline of the history of human rights before moving on to discuss such important topics as the relationship between political institutions and rights protection, rights issues pertaining to specific communities, ...
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In Rwanda alone, genocide that occurred in 1994 may have claimed a million lives. The world hoped that there would be no more of this heinous killing. As the dawn of the twenty-first century appeared, however, genocide again ...
I sometimes wonder why humans are so precious about going on living. As far as I can tell, there's probably not many of them left. Supplies and food are dwindling and our numbers continue to rise, so it's only a matter of time before ...
Reflections on historical perspectives and philosophical foundations of human rights. The book gives a detailed analysis of civil, political, social and cultural rights as well as the rights of persons...
On the other hand, there are"Political" theorists, who think of human rights as rights that play a distinctive role, or set of roles, in modern international politics: setting universal standards of political legitimacy, serving as norms of ...
Human Rights: Its Culture and Moral Confusions
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The volume begins with an overview of the history of human rights before moving on to discuss such important topics as the relationship between political institutions and rights protection, rights issues pertaining to specific communities, ...
The second edition of Human Rights provides a completely revised and updated guide to this vital topic—from the latest human rights legislation to current publications, Internet resources, information on human...
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This reference compiles legal and constitutional instruments-charters, treaties, declarations, & resolution which are relevant to the protection of human rights within the Inter-American system. Some of the documents included, among...
... radical social transformation. Human rights politics, which has been both a regulatory and an emancipatory politics, is trapped ... social regulation and social emancipation are to be displaced to the global level. We have started to speak.
7. Selected list of recommendations, resolutions and declarations adopted
First published in 1998, this first volume of The Manual on Human Rights Education for Universities has been prepared in the hope that it will serve as a teaching aid for institutions of higher education, as well as for UNESCO Chairs, and ...
Human Rights: A Topical Bibliography
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