The Impact of technology on human rights
Subtitle: global case-studies : studies on the affirmative use of science and technology for the furtherance of human rights, commissioned as a special project by the United Nations University, following a reference to the University by the United Nations Human Rights Commission
By: edited by C.G. Weeramantry.
Contributors: Weeramantry, C. G.; United Nations University.
Publisher: United Nations University Press; United Nations Univ
Published: 1993
Place of publication: Tokyo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 322
Subjects: Science -- Social aspects.; Technology -- Social aspects.; Civil rights -- Case studies.; Human rights -- Case studies.
Other titles: Human rights and scientific and technological development.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
"HRSTD-2/UNUP-821"--T.p. verso.
"United Nations sales no. E92.III.A.7."--T.p. verso.
Sequel to: Human rights and scientific and technological development. 1990.
Table of contents: title: Technological impacts on human rights: models of development, science and technology, and human rights / Jan Berting; title: Democracy, human rights, and the impact of scientific and technological development in Venezuela / Edgardo Lander; title: Technology and human rights: critical implications for Thailand / Vitit Muntarbhorn; title: Human rights and technological development: Eastern Europe and Poland / Pawel Bozyk; title: The impact of modern science and technology on human rights in Ethiopia / Tewolde Berhan Gebre Egziabher, assisted by Yoseph Gebre Egziabher and Sue Edwards; title: Western European case-study: the impact of advanced methods of medical treatment on human rights / Aart Hendriks and Manfred Nowak; title: Conclusions / C.G. Weeramantry.