Human Rights in Iran
Subtitle: The Abuse of Cultural Relativism (Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights)
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: July 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9780812236057
Subjects: International human rights law; International relations; Political Freedom & Security - Human Rights; Iran; Political Science; Politics / Current Events; Law; Politics/International Relations; History & Theory - General; Middle East - Iran; Law / Human Rights; International Relations - General; Human rights
First sentence: The challenge facing human rights advocates has always been formidable: to scale the seemingly insurmountable walls of the sovereign state, to reach into its dark and cloistered domestic domains, and to lend a helping hand to courageous but lonely women and men in the clutches of its security apparatus.