Making sense of human rights / James W. Nickel
Material type: TextPublication details: Oxford Blackwell cop. 2007Edition: 2. edDescription: 267 sISBN:- 140514534X (hbk.)
- 978-1-4051-4534-3 (hbk.)
- 1-4051-4535-8 (pbk.)
- 978-1-4051-4535-0 (pbk.)
- 341.48 22
- 340
- Oc.01
Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Book (loan) | Campus Karlskrona | 340 | Available | 080041488741 |
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