| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 370 pages) |
| Series |
Human rights and crimes against humanity |
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Human rights and crimes against humanity.
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| Contents |
The movement -- Putting natural law principles into practice -- What are rights? -- International human rights law -- International humanitarian law -- Defying communism -- Rights on the other side of the Cold War divide -- Amnesty international -- Human rights watch -- The worldwide movement -- Accountability -- Rights after 9/11 -- Going forward |
| Summary |
"An expanded and updated edition of a classic work on human rights and global justice. Since its original publication, Basic Rights has proven increasingly influential to those working in political philosophy, human rights, global justice, and the ethics of international relations and foreign policy, particularly in debates regarding foreign policy's role in alleviating global poverty. Henry Shue asks: Which human rights ought to be the first honored and the last sacrificed? Shue argues that subsistence rights, along with security rights and liberty rights, serve as the ground of all other human rights. This classic work, now available in a thoroughly updated fortieth-anniversary edition, includes a substantial new chapter by the author examining how the accelerating transformation of our climate progressively undermines the bases of subsistence like sufficient water, affordable food, and housing safe from forest-fires and sea-level rise. Climate change threatens basic rights"-- Provided by publisher |
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A fascinating history of the international human rights movement as seen by one of its founders. During the past several decades, the international human rights movement has had a crucial hand in struggles against totalitarian regimes and crimes against humanity. Today, it grapples with the war against terror and subsequent abuses of government power. In The International Human Rights Movement, Aryeh Neier--a leading figure and a founder of the contemporary movement--offers a comprehensive, authoritative account of this global force, from its beginnings in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries to its essential place in world affairs today. Neier combines analysis with personal experience, and gives an insider’s perspective on the movement’s goals, the disputes about its mission, its rise to international importance, and the challenges to come. This updated edition includes a new preface by the author |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [327]-347) and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 14, 2020) |
| Subject |
Human rights -- History
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Human rights advocacy -- History
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POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights
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Human rights
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Human rights advocacy
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2019953668 |
| ISBN |
9780691200996 |
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0691200998 |
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