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Title Human rights, southern voices : Francis Deng, Abdullahi An-Na'im, Yash Ghai and Upendra Baxi / edited by William Twining
Published Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 238 pages)
Series Law in context
Law in context.
Contents Francis Mading Deng -- The cow and the thing called "What": Dinka cultural perspectives on wealth and poverty -- Human rights, universalism and democracy -- A cultural approach to human rights among the Dinka -- Abdullahi An-Na'im -- Context and methodology: the Second Message of Islam -- Shari'a and basic human rights concerns -- Culural legitimation: towards a cross-cultural approach to defining international standards of human rights: the meaning of cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment -- Islam and the secular state -- Economic, social and cultural rights (ESCR) -- Yash Ghai -- Universalism and relativism: human rights as a framework for negotiating interethnic claims -- Understanding human rights in Asia -- Quotations -- Upendra Baxi -- Voices of suffering and the future of human rights -- Rights and "development."
Summary This anthology introduces the ideas of four jurists who present distinct 'Southern' perspectives on human rights
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 222-230) and index
Subject Deng, Francis Mading, 1938-
Naʻīm, ʻAbd Allāh Aḥmad, 1946-
Ghai, Yash P., 1938-
Baxi, Upendra.
SUBJECT Baxi, Upendra fast
Deng, Francis Mading, 1938- fast
Ghai, Yash P., 1938- fast
Naʻīm, ʻAbd Allāh Aḥmad, 1946- fast
Subject Human rights.
Human rights -- History
Human rights -- Political aspects
Human rights -- Asia
Human rights -- Middle East
Human rights -- Africa
Human rights -- South America
Human Rights
86.81 human rights.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Human Rights.
Human rights
Human rights -- Political aspects
Menschenrecht
Menschenrechtler
Human rights.
Africa
Asia
Middle East
South America
Nichtwestliche Welt
Islamic world.
Asia.
Africa.
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Twining, William, 1934-
ISBN 9780511651977
051165197X
9780511808364
0511808364
9781282393936
1282393936
9781107202849
1107202841