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Published in association with the Netherlands Commission for UNESCO and the Roosevelt Study Center, Middelburg, The Netherlands, this volume is edited from papers delivered at two international conferences on human rights as individual rights and as the rights of collectivities such as states, peoples, and minorities.

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Published under the auspices of the Consortium on Human Rights Development, this book presents a comparative analysis of two legal instruments: one national--the New Tanzanian Bill of Rights--and the other regional--The African Charter on Human Rights and People's Rights.

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Challenges the conventional view that the concept of human rights is peculiar to the West and, therefore, inherently alien to the non-Western traditions of third world countries. This book demonstrates that there is a contextual legitimacy for the concept of human rights.

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Human Rights in the International Public Sphere has an interdisciplinary focus and can be used as a text in communication studies, cultural studies, political science, current events, discourse analysis, area and international studies, and other courses in the social sciences and humanities.

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Human Rights in the International Public Sphere has an interdisciplinary focus and can be used as a text in communication studies, cultural studies, political science, current events, discourse analysis, area and international studies, and other courses in the social sciences and humanities.

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This text offers a broad survey outlining human rights instruments and describing how they are implemented in the United Nations, through regional institutions, in specialized agencies and elsewhere. This fourth edition has been updated to include the War Crimes Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia.

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This work offers an insightful guide to the global struggle for human rights, the problems and shortcomings of the international human rights regime, and the resources essential to human rights studies.

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The book documents Lord Irvine's lectures and articles and contributes to the debate on Human Rights, Constitutional Law and the English Legal System.

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This book describes legal and political landscape in Northern Ireland and provides a significant contribution to current debates on constitutionalism.

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This book analyzes the complex relationship between human rights and liberalism as two different worldviews, and how American liberalism impedes the recognition of human rights. In order to achieve democratic, equitable, and sustainable societies, people need to be accorded fundamental human rights and to grant these rights to others.

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This reference work documents the history of human rights worldwide, clearly explains each article of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and examines the major human rights issues facing the world today. It covers a broad range of human rights issues that are central to an understanding of the world history and current affairs.

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A detailed biography written soon after its subject's tragic death. The appendixes include texts of some of King's most famous speeches.

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A discussion of issues affecting families, communities, and governments as they seek to secure "the right of every child to a standard of living adequate for the child's physical, mental, spiritual, moral, and social development" as stipulated by the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.

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This book compares the approaches of various courts to the questions of free speech, which lie at the heart of much debate in constitutional law.

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The first comprehensive statistical analysis of human rights attainments and improvements over time, this book seeks to answer the question, Why do some countries better observe human rights than others, and what can be done to advance the cause of human rights around the world

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As one of China's most influential law professors, He Weifang has been at the forefront of the country's treacherous path toward justice and judicial independence for over a decade. With In the Name of Justice, He presents his critical assessment of the state of Chinese legal reform.