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Making sense of human rights / James W. Nickel.

By: Material type: TextPublication details: Malden, MA ; Oxford : Blackwell Pub., 2007.Edition: 2nd edDescription: 267 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 140514534X (alk. paper)
  • 9781405145343 (alk. paper)
  • 1405145358 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 9781405145350 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 341.4/8 22
LOC classification:
  • JC571 .N49 2007
Other classification:
  • 86.81
  • MD 4700
  • PR 2213
Online resources:
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 on Human Rights -- 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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Books African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights Library JC571.N49 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 1000114X

Includes bibliographical references (p. [243]-255) and index.

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 on Human Rights -- 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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