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Making sense of human rights / James W. Nickel

By: Nickel, James WMaterial type: TextTextPublication details: Oxford Blackwell cop. 2007 Edition: 2. edDescription: 267 sISBN: 140514534X (hbk.); 978-1-4051-4534-3 (hbk.); 1-4051-4535-8 (pbk.); 978-1-4051-4535-0 (pbk.)Subject(s): United Nations General Assembly Universal Declaration of Human Rights | Civil rights | Human Rights | Civil Rights | United Nations | Human rights | Human rights | Mänskliga rättigheterDDC classification: 341.48 Other classification: 340 | Oc.01
Contents:
Introduction -- The contemporary idea of human rights -- Human rights as rights -- Making sense of human rights -- Starting points for justifying human rights -- A framework for justifying specific rights -- The list question -- Due process rights and terrorist emergencies -- Economic liberties as fundamental freedoms -- Social rights as human rights -- Minority rights -- Eight responses to the relativist -- The good sense in human rights -- App. 1: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights -- App. 2: The European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms -- App. 3: The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights -- App. 4: The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
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Previous ed.: Berkeley, Calif.; London: University of California Press, 1987

Introduction -- The contemporary idea of human rights -- Human rights as rights -- Making sense of human rights -- Starting points for justifying human rights -- A framework for justifying specific rights -- The list question -- Due process rights and terrorist emergencies -- Economic liberties as fundamental freedoms -- Social rights as human rights -- Minority rights -- Eight responses to the relativist -- The good sense in human rights -- App. 1: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights -- App. 2: The European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms -- App. 3: The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights -- App. 4: The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

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