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Title Human rights / edited by Robert McCorquodale
Published Aldershot, Hants : Ashgate/Dartmouth, [2003]
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Description xxiv, 607 pages ; 25 cm
Series International library of essays in law and legal theory. Second series
International library of essays in law and legal theory. Second series.
Contents pt. I. Challenging human right concepts. The philosophic foundation of human rights / Jerome J. Shestack ; Human rights genealogy / Ruti Teitel ; The concept of human rights: the history and meaning of its politicization / Joy Gordon ; Voices of suffering, fragmented universality, and the future of human rights / Upendra Baxi ; What future for economic and social rights? / David Beetham ; The Banjul Charter and the African cultural fingerprint: an evaluation of the language of duties / Makau Wa Mutua ; Human rights, group rights, and peoples' rights / Peter Jones -- Rethinking universals: opening transformative possibilities in international human rights law / Dianne Otto ; Toward a multicultural conception of human rights / Boaventura de Sousa Santos -- pt. II. Applying human right concepts. The global market and human rights: trading away the human rights principle / Frank J. Garcia ; The attack on human rights / Michael Ignatieff ; International humanitarian law and human rights law / Louise Doswald-Beck, Sylvain Vite ; A 'violations approach' for monitoring the international covenant on economic, social and cultural rights / Audrey R. Chapman ; Freedoms and needs / Amartya Sen ; The public/private distinction and the right to development in international law / Hilary Charlesworth ; Human rights and sustainable development in contemporary Africa: a new dawn, or retreating horizons? / Joseph Oloka-Onyango ; Is there a right not to be poor? / Sigrun I. Skogly ; The international human rights movement: part of the problem? / David Kennedy
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Human rights.
Author McCorquodale, Robert.
LC no. 2002074716
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