Grounding human rights in a pluralist world /:

In 1948 the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights which declared that every human being, without "distinction of any kind," possesses a set of morally authoritative rights and fundamental freedoms that ought to be socially guaranteed. Sinc...

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1. Verfasser: Kao, Grace (Grace Y.)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Washington, D.C. : Georgetown University Press, ©2011.
Schriftenreihe:Advancing human rights series.
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Zusammenfassung:In 1948 the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights which declared that every human being, without "distinction of any kind," possesses a set of morally authoritative rights and fundamental freedoms that ought to be socially guaranteed. Since that time, human rights have arguably become the cross-cultural moral concept and evaluative tool to measure the performance -- and even legitimacy -- of domestic regimes. Yet questions remain that challenge their universal validity and theoretical bases. Some theorists are "maximalist."
Beschreibung:1 online resource (viii, 239 pages)
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-224) and index.
ISBN:9781589017603
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