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UNINA9910461296003321 |
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Ramcharan B. G. |
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The UN Human Rights Council / / Bertrand G. Ramcharan |
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Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon [England] ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2011 |
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1-283-46018-1 |
9786613460189 |
1-136-65702-9 |
0-203-80667-0 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (171 p.) |
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Routledge global institutions ; ; 55 |
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Human rights |
Electronic books. |
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Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Cover; The UN Human Rights Council; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Mandate and roles; 2. Institutional and procedural architecture; 3. The Universal Periodic Review; 4. Legislative role; 5. Promotional and educational role; 6. Preventive role; 7. Fact-finding role; 8. Protection role; 9. The Advisory Committee; 10. NGOs and the council; 11. Conclusions; Notes; Select bibliography; Index |
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The UN Human Rights Council provides a detailed insight into this important organization. The UN was founded in the hope that lasting peace would be built on the foundations of human rights and economic and social progress. In 2006 the Commission on Human Rights was replaced by the Human Rights Council as the principal UN body concerned with human rights. It is even possible that the council might eventually become a principal organ of the world organization. The Human Rights Council is already the subject of major public interest and controversy. The Council has been critic |
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UNINA9910784837003321 |
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Newell Stephanie <1968-> |
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West African literatures [[electronic resource] ] : ways of reading / / Stephanie Newell |
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Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2006 |
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1-383-04432-5 |
1-280-90573-5 |
0-19-153837-X |
0-19-151523-X |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (286 p.) |
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Oxford studies in postcolonial literatures in English |
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West African literature (English) - History and criticism |
Africa, West Intellectual life |
Africa, West In literature |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-249) and index. |
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Acknowledgements; Contents; List of maps; West African Timeline; 1 Introduction: Where is 'West Africa'?; 2 Négritude; 3 Facing East: Islam and Identity in West African Literature; 4 Oral Literatures; 5 Lost and Found in Translation; 6 Things Fall Apart: Presence and Palimpsest in the Colonial-scape; 7 Popular Literature; 8 Griots with Pens in their Hands: Literary Experiments with Oral Genres, 1960s-1990s; 9 Feminism and the Complex Space of Women's Writing; 10 Marxism and West African Literature; 11 The Three 'Posts': Postmodernism, Poststructuralism, Postcolonialism |
12 Experimental Writing by the 'Third Generation'13 'Queering' West African Literatures: Calixthe Beyala, Werewere Liking, and Véronique Tadjo; 14 Conclusion: West Africa in Postcolonial Theory; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
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West African Literatures provides students with fresh, in-depth perspectives on the key debates in the field. The aim of this book is not to provide an authoritative, encyclopaedic account, but to consider a selection of the region's literatures in relation to prevailing discussions about literature and postcolonialism. - ;The Oxford Studies in |
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Postcolonial Literatures series (general editor: Elleke Boehmer) offers stimulating and accessible introductions to definitive topics and key genres and regions within the rapidly diversifying field of postcolonial literary studies in English. This stud |
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