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Record Nr.

UNINA9910163926503321

Titolo

Fragile freedoms : the global struggle for human rights / / edited by Steven Lecce, Neil McArthur, and Arthur Schafer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2017

©2017

ISBN

0-19-022721-4

0-19-022720-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (216 pages)

Disciplina

323

Soggetti

Human rights - History

Human rights - International cooperation

Human rights - Philosophy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction fragile freedoms : the global struggle for human rights / Steven Lecce, Neil McArthur, Arthur Schafer -- Human rights : past and future / Anthony Grayling -- A history of violence / Steven Pinker -- Capabilities, entitlements, rights : supplementation and critique / Martha Nussbaum -- Culture, identity, and human rights / Kwame Anthony Appiah -- Indigenous love, law, and land in Canada's constitution / John Borrows -- Legal challenges in a changing world / Baroness Helena Kennedy -- Women and the struggle for human rights / Germaine Greer.