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Human rights : an interdisciplinary approach / Michael Freeman.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Key concepts (Polity Press)Publication details: Cambridge, UK ; Malden, MA : Polity Press, 2011.Edition: 2nd edDescription: xi, 241 p. ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 9780745639659 (hbk.)
  • 0745639658 (hbk.)
  • 9780745639666 (pbk.)
  • 0745639666 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 323 22 FRE
LOC classification:
  • JC571 .F675 2011
Other classification:
  • 86.81
Contents:
Introduction: thinking about human rights -- Origins : the rise and fall of natural rights -- After 1945 : the new age of rights -- Theories of human rights -- The role of the social sciences -- Universality, diversity and difference : culture and human rights -- The politics of human rights -- Globalization, development and poverty : economics and human rights -- Human rights in the twenty-first century.
Summary: Introducing readers to the theory and practice of human rights, this text emphasises how the experiences of the victims of human rights violations are related to legal, philosophical and social-scientific approaches to human rights.
Item type: Book
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Current library Call number Status Date due Barcode
Archbishop Kiwanuka Memorial Library 323 FRE (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 43964
UMU Rubaga Campus 323 FRE (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 43970

Includes bibliographical references (p. [212]-234) and index.

Introduction: thinking about human rights -- Origins : the rise and fall of natural rights -- After 1945 : the new age of rights -- Theories of human rights -- The role of the social sciences -- Universality, diversity and difference : culture and human rights -- The politics of human rights -- Globalization, development and poverty : economics and human rights -- Human rights in the twenty-first century.

Introducing readers to the theory and practice of human rights, this text emphasises how the experiences of the victims of human rights violations are related to legal, philosophical and social-scientific approaches to human rights.

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