Giving Meaning to Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights (Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights)
Contributors: Isfahan Merali (Editor); Valerie Oosterveld (Editor)
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: June 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 278
ISBN-13: 9780812236019
Subjects: Human rights; Social policy; Law; Economic policy; Political Science; Politics / Current Events; Politics/International Relations; Political Freedom & Security - Human Rights; Anthropology - Cultural; History & Theory - General; Cultural policy; Women's rights
First sentence: By its nature as a pronouncement of high normative principles, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) did not address the hard questions related to the creation of institutions to begin the process of bridging the gap between statement of ideals and practical realization.