| Description |
xi, 337 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction: human rights and the fifty years' crisis / Tim Dunne and Nicholas J. Wheeler -- I. Theories of human rights. 1. Three tyrannies / Ken Booth. 2. The social construction of international human rights / Jack Donnelly. 3. Universal human rights: a critique / Chris Brown. 4. Non-ethnocentric universalism / Bhikhu Parekh. 5. Towards an ethic of global responsibility / Mary Midgley -- II. The practices of human wrongs. 6. The challenge of genocide and genocidal politics in an era of globalisation / Richard Falk. 7. Transnational civil society / Mary Kaldor. 8. Global voices: civil society and the media in global crises / Martin Shaw. 9. Refugees: a global human rights and security crisis / Gil Lobscher. 10. The silencing of women / Georgina Ashworth. 11. Power, principles and prudence: protecting human rights in a deeply divided world / Andrew Hurrell. 12. Learning beyond frontiers / Ken Booth and Tim Dunne |
| Summary |
There is a stark contradiction between the theory of universal human rights and the everyday practice of human wrongs. This timely volume investigates whether human rights abuses are a result of the failure of governments to live up to a universal human rights standard, or whether the search for moral universals is a fundamentally flawed enterprise which distracts us from the task of developing rights in the context of particular ethical communities |
| Analysis |
Human rights |
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Human rights violations |
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Nongovernment international agencies |
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Overseas item |
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Refugees |
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Social contract |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Environmental economics.
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Human rights.
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Natural resources.
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| Author |
Dunne, Timothy, 1965-
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Wheeler, Nicholas J.
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| LC no. |
98035137 |
| ISBN |
0521641381 (hb) |
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052164643X (paperback) |
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9780521646437 (paperback) |
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