Human rights and the unborn child
By: by Rita Joseph.
Publisher: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9789004175600
Subjects: Unborn children (Law); Right to life; Abortion -- Law and legislation; Human rights
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Fundamentals of the universal declaration's human rights protection; title: The inaugural human right-to be born free and equal; title: What is "appropriate" legal protection before as well as after birth?; title: The right to life and to the necessities of life; title: Decriminalization- a treaty interpretation manifestly unreasonable; title: CRC legislative history and the child before birth; title: Selective abortion on grounds of disability; title: European Convention (1950) and the unborn child; title: American Convention on Human Rights; title: Reclaiming rights of the African child at risk of abortion; title: Selective abortion : an act of violence and discrimination on grounds of sex; title: Children's rights "...without any exceptions whatsoever."