Human rights fifty years on
Subtitle: a reappraisal
By: edited by Tony Evans.
Contributors: Evans, Tony, 1944-
Publisher: Manchester University Press; Distributed exclusively in the USA by St. Martin's Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Manchester; New York; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 237
Subjects: Human rights -- History -- 20th century.
Description: This book offers a critical reappraisal of the project for universal human rights. The twentieth, thirtieth and fortieth anniversaries of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights were all marked by the publication of volumes that celebrated achievements in the field of human rights. Many of these took a self-congratulatory line that emphasized progress on the protection of human rights, ignoring the facts of torture, genocide, structural deprivation and the routine exclusion of some groups from political, economic and social participation. This book brings together some of the leading critics of the current project for universal human rights, including Noam Chomsky and Johan Galtung, as a counterweight to triumphalist approaches on the fiftieth anniversary of the Declaration.--Publisher description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.