Human rights
Subtitle: an interdisciplinary approach
By: Michael Freeman
Edition: 2nd ed.
Series: Key concepts series; Key concepts (Polity Press)
Publisher: Polity Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Cambridge, UK; Malden, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 241
ISBN-13: 9780745639659; 9780745639666
Subjects: Human rights; Politics and Government; Mensenrechten
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [212]-234) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: thinking about human rights; title: Origins : the rise and fall of natural rights; title: After 1945 : the new age of rights; title: Theories of human rights; title: The role of the social sciences; title: Universality, diversity and difference : culture and human rights; title: The politics of human rights; title: Globalization, development and poverty : economics and human rights; title: Human rights in the twenty-first century.