Human rights
Subtitle: questions and answers
By: Leah Levin ; illustrated by Plantu ; Konstantinos Tararas, editor
Contributors: Plantu, illustrator; Tararas, Konstantinos, editor; Unesco Publishing
Edition: Updated 6th edition.
Publisher: UNESCO Publishing
Published: 2012
Language: eng
Number of pages: 222
ISBN-13: 9789231042386
Subjects: Human rights; Miscellanea
Description: Human Rights: Questions and Answers is motivated by a strong belief in the value of human rights education. Citizens can only exercise, and claim their rights and respect and defend the rights of others, if they have sufficient knowledge of human rights norms and mechanisms for their protection. This book provides the general public with clear, concise and up-to-date information on human rights standards in an attempt to help prevent past atrocities from happening again and anticipate the emergence of new threats. First published in 1981, Human Rights: Questions and Answers has been reedited and revised several times and translated into more that thirty languages. To mark the 20th anniversary of the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action adopted by the World Conference on Human Rights, it is hoped that this publication will keep contributing to the promotion of the principles of universality, indivisibility, interrelatedness and interdependence of all human rights which were reaffirmed at the Vienna Conference in 1993.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: pt. 1. International human rights law : questions and answers. Human rights : general introduction ; The International Bill of Human Rights ; International instruments concerning specific human rights issues ; International instruments related to the protection of specific groups ; Procedures for the promotion and protection of human rights ; Protection of human rights in times of armed conflict and responses to systematic and gross violations of human rights ; United Nations bodies, programmes and specialized agencies dealing with human rights; title: Regional human rights instruments and procedures ; The role of civil society and the private sector in the field of human rights ; Human rights education ; Contemporary challenges; title: pt. 2. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights : what each article means.