Title : | The Age of Rights |
Material Type: | printed text |
Authors: | Louis Henkin, Author |
Edition statement: | 1st edition |
Publisher: | New York : Columbia University Press |
Publication Date: | 1996 |
Pagination: | 220 p. |
Size: | 22 cm |
ISBN (or other code): | 978-0-231-06445-3 |
General note: | Includes bibliographical index (p. [215]- 220) |
Languages : | English (eng) Original Language : English (eng) |
Descriptors: | Civil rights Foreign relations - United States Human rights United States
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Class number: | 342.73 |
Abstract: | This text explores the principal issues and developments, both in international human rights and in rights in the United States, and then compares the concepts and conditions of rights in various parts of the world. It pays particular attention to the role of US foreign policy. Looks at the 1948 U.N. Universal Declaration of Human Rights, describes how human rights are protected here and abroad, and discusses recent developments in the concept of human rights. |
Contents note: | International Human Rights; Rights in the United States; Rights: Here and There; Human Rights and Competing Ideas; |
Record link: | https://library.seeu.edu.mk/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=19153 |