ISBN:
9780801477706
,
9780801450952
Language:
English
Pages:
X, 320 S.
,
graph. Darst.
,
23 cm
Edition:
3. ed.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Donnelly, Jack, 1951 - Universal human rights in theory and practice
DDC:
323
Keywords:
Civil rights
;
Human rights
;
Cultural relativism
;
Menschenrecht
;
Menschenrechte
;
Human rights Theory
;
Human rights policy
;
Human dignity
;
Human rights violations
;
Civil rights
;
Human rights
;
Cultural relativism
;
Menschenrecht
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction -- The concept of human rights -- The Universal Declaration model -- Economic rights and group rights -- Equal concern and respect -- A brief history of human rights -- The relative universality of human rights -- Universality in a world of peculiarities -- Dignity : particularistic and universalistic conceptions in the West -- Humanity, dignity, and politics in Confucian China -- Humans and society in Hindu South Asia -- International human rights regimes -- Human rights and foreign policy -- Human rights, democracy, and development -- The West and economic and social rights -- Humanitarian intervention against genocide -- Nondiscrimination for all : the case of sexual minorities.
Note:
Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte Nachdrucke
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Includes bibliographical references and index
URL:
http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=39846
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