Human rights: an introduction

Human Rights: An Introduction is an important and particularly timely text that provides a comprehensive overview of human rights and related issues from a social science perspective. First, this book does more than discuss theory, it uses case studies and personal testimonies in the debate. Human rights as an area of academic interest cannot be easily divorced from human rights struggles and the reality of contemporary conditions.Second, the book is aimed at what is an emerging and growing cross-disciplinary field of study. Human rights issues are increasingly coming to the fore in a number o.

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""Cover ""; ""Human Rights ""; ""Title Page ""; ""Copyright Page ""; ""Table of Contents ""; ""Foreword""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Introduction""; ""Thinking about human rights""; ""Human rights abuses in the world today""; ""The scope of human rights research""; ""Human rights and theoretical traditions""; ""Chapter One Theorising human rights ""; ""What are human rights?""; ""A brief history of human rights theory ""; ""Are human rights universal?""; ""Are human rights incontrovertible?""; ""Are human rights subjective?""; ""Ethics and social practice ""; ""Modernity and democratisation""

""The state and human rights theory""""Essay questions""; ""Notes""; ""Further information""; ""Chapter Two Regulating human rights ""; ""Who protects human rights?""; ""A brief history of human rights regulation""; ""Human rights and world politics""; ""The United Nations""; ""Human rights and the law""; ""Human rights and social movements ""; ""The state and human rights regulation""; ""Essay questions""; ""Notes""; ""Further information""; ""Chapter Three Censorship ""; ""What is censorship?""; ""A brief history of censorship""; ""Censorship and democracy""

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