Human Rights: An Interdisciplinary Approach/ by Michael Freeman

By:

Freeman,Michael

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Cambridge, Polity Press, 2002.Description: ix,201pISBN:

9780745623566

Subject(s):

Human rights

DDC classification:

323 FRE/H

Contents:

1. Introduction: thinking about human rights -- 2. Origins : the rise and fall of natural rights -- 3. After 1945 : the new age of rights -- 4. Theories of human rights -- 5. The role of the social sciences -- 6. Universality, diversity and difference : culture and human rights -- 7. The politics of human rights -- 8. Globalization, development and poverty : economics and human rights -- 9. Human rights in the twenty-first century.

Summary: Introducing readers to the theory and practice of human rights, this text emphasises how the experiences of the victims of human rights violations are related to legal, philosophical and social-scientific approaches to human rights.

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Item type	Current library	Home library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	Study Centre Alappuzha, University of Kerala	Study Centre Alappuzha, University of Kerala	323 FRE/H (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		USCA3499

1. Introduction: thinking about human rights --
2. Origins : the rise and fall of natural rights --
3. After 1945 : the new age of rights --
4. Theories of human rights --
5. The role of the social sciences --
6. Universality, diversity and difference : culture and human rights --
7. The politics of human rights --
8. Globalization, development and poverty : economics and human rights --
9. Human rights in the twenty-first century.

Introducing readers to the theory and practice of human rights, this text emphasises how the experiences of the victims of human rights violations are related to legal, philosophical and social-scientific approaches to human rights.

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