Human Rights: A Very Short Introduction

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What are our human rights? What are their philosophical justifications and historical origins? Focusing on highly topical issues such as torture, arbitrary detention, privacy, and discrimination, this Very Short Introduction discusses the controversies and complexities behind these vitally relevant issues.

Über den Autor

Andrew Clapham is Professor of Public International Law at the Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva. Before he joined the Graduate Institute of International Studies Institute in 1997, he was the Representative of Amnesty International to the United Nations in New York. He was the Director of the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights from 2006 until 2014. His publications include The 1949 Geneva Conventions: A Commentary, co-edited with Paola Gaeta and Marco Sassòli, (OUP 2015) and The Oxford Handbook of International Law in Armed Conflict, co-edited with Paola Gaeta (OUP 2014).

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

1: Looking at rights

2: Historical development and contemporary concerns

3: Human rights foreign policy and the role of the United Nations

4: Torture

5: Deprivations of life and liberty

6: Balancing rights - free speech and privacy

7: Food, education, health, housing, and work

8: Discrimination and equality

9: The death penalty

Final remarks

References

Further reading

Annex: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Index

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2015
Genre:	Politikwissenschaften
Rubrik:	Wissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Reihe:	Very Short Introductions
Inhalt:	216 S. 15 black and white halftones and line drawings
ISBN-13:	9780198706168
ISBN-10:	0198706162
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Klappenbroschur
Autor:	Clapham, Andrew
Auflage:	2nd Edition
Hersteller:	Oxford University Press
Abbildungen:	15 black and white halftones and line drawings
Maße:	172 x 108 x 15 mm
Von/Mit:	Andrew Clapham
Erscheinungsdatum:	26.11.2015
Gewicht:	0,19 kg

Artikel-ID: 104683380

Über den Autor

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

1: Looking at rights

2: Historical development and contemporary concerns

3: Human rights foreign policy and the role of the United Nations

4: Torture

5: Deprivations of life and liberty

6: Balancing rights - free speech and privacy

7: Food, education, health, housing, and work

8: Discrimination and equality

9: The death penalty

Final remarks

References

Further reading

Annex: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Index

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2015
Genre:	Politikwissenschaften
Rubrik:	Wissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Reihe:	Very Short Introductions
Inhalt:	216 S. 15 black and white halftones and line drawings
ISBN-13:	9780198706168
ISBN-10:	0198706162
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Klappenbroschur
Autor:	Clapham, Andrew
Auflage:	2nd Edition
Hersteller:	Oxford University Press
Abbildungen:	15 black and white halftones and line drawings
Maße:	172 x 108 x 15 mm
Von/Mit:	Andrew Clapham
Erscheinungsdatum:	26.11.2015
Gewicht:	0,19 kg