Human rights
By: Fiona Macdonald and Clare Weaver
Contributors: Weaver, Clare
Series: World issues
Publisher: Chrysalis Children's
Published: 2005
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 57
ISBN-13: 9781841388786; 9781844583959
Subjects: Human rights; Juvenile literature
Description: Definition of human rights - How can human rights be achieved? - What causes the failure of governments to provide human rights - Efforts of United Nations - Action against those who abuse human rights - The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1948.
Notes: First printed in paperback in 2005.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Rigoberta's story; title: What are human rights?; title: How can human rights be achieved?; title: Have people always had human rights?; title: How do human rights ideas affect people?; title: Do human rights ideas improve justice?; title: Why don't we all have human rights?; title: Who has the duty to defend human rights?; title: How can human rights abusers be punished?