Making sense of human rights - Nickel, James W. (Malden, MA ; Oxford : Blackwell Pub., 2007)
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.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [243]-255) and index.
Keywords: Civil rights; Human rights; United Nations. -- General Assembly; Universele Verklaring van de Rechten van de Mens; Mensenrechten; Menschenrecht