The rights of man, or, what are we fighting for?
By: H. G. Wells ; with an introduction by Ali Smith
Contributors: Smith, Ali, 1962- writer of introduction
Edition: First Vintage Classics edition.
Series: Vintage classics; Vintage classics
Publisher: Vintage Books, a dvision of Penguin Random House LLC
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 128
ISBN-13: 9780525432340
Subjects: Human rights; Civil rights
Other titles: What are we fighting for?
Description: H. G. Wells's passionate and influential manifesto never before available in the United States was first published in England in 1940 in response to World War II. The progressive ideas Wells set out were instrumental in the creation of the UN's Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the European Convention on Human Rights, and the UK's Human Rights Act. In the face of a global miscarriage of justice, The Rights of Man made a clear statement of mankind's responsibilities to itself. Seventy-five years later we are again witnessing a humanitarian crisis, with human rights in developed nations under threat and millions of refugees displaced. A new introduction to Wells's work by award-winning novelist Ali Smith underlines the continuing urgency and relevance of one of the most important humanitarian texts of the twentieth century. --
Notes: Originally published: London : Penguin Books, 1940.