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Human rights : new perspectives, new realities

This collection reflects two decades of developments in human rights scholarship, revisiting the debate between universalists and cultural relativists and also engaging new notions of ""third generation"" rights.
Print Book, English, 2000
Lynne Rienner Publishers, Boulder, Colo., 2000
Case Reports
vii, 259 pages ; 24 cm
9781555879440, 9781555879792, 1555879446, 1555879799
43885809
A new universalism / Adamantia Pollis
Liberal democracy and minority rights / Michael Freeman
Peasant justice and respect for human rights : Peru / John S. Gitlitz
Women's rights in Islam : revisiting Quranic rights / Zehra F. Arat
Human environmental rights / Barbara Rose Johnston
Political community and human rights in postcommunist Russia / Peter Juviler
Human rights, political values, and development in East Asia / Michael C. Davis
The consolidation of democracy and human rights in Latin America / Juan E. Méndez & Javier Mariezcurrena
How international human rights law affects domestic law / Roger S. Clark
Globalization's impact on human rights / Peter Schwab & Adamantia Pollis