Binding: Paperback
Description: This book provides an interdisciplinary overview of international human rights issues offering truly international coverage including the Global South. Considering the philosophical foundations of human rights Chen and Renteln explore the interpretive difficulties associated with identifying what constitute human rights abuses and evaluate various perspectives on human rights. This book goes on to analyze institutions that strive to promote and enforce human rights standards including the United Nations system regional human rights bodies and domestic courts. It also discusses a wide variety of substantive human rights including genocide torture capital punishment and other cruel and unusual punishments. In particular the book offers an accessible introduction to key understudied topics within human rights such as socioeconomic rights cultural rights and environmental rights. It also focuses on the rights of marginalized groups including children's rights rights of persons with disabilities women's rights labor rights indigenous rights and Lgbtq+ rights making this an engaging and invaluable resource for the contemporary student.
Title: International Human Rights A Survey
Author(s): Renteln Alison Dundes (University Of Southern California)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Barcode: 9781108735384
Pages: 606 Pages, Worked Examples Or Exercises
Publication Date: 11/10/2022
Category: International Organisations & Institutions