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Human Rights : A Very Short Introduction (Second edition)

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Today it is usually not long before a problem gets expressed as a human rights issue.

Indeed, human rights law continues to gain increasing attention internationally, and must move quickly in order to keep up with a social world that changes so rapidly. This Very Short Introduction, in its second edition, brings the issue of human rights up to date, considering the current controversies surrounding the movement.

Discussing torture and arbitrary detention in the context of counter terrorism, Andrew Clapham also considers new challenges to human rights in the context of privacy, equality and the right to health.

Looking at the philosophical justification for rights, the historical origins of human rights and how they are formed in law, Clapham explains what our human rights actually are, what they might be, and where the human rights movement is heading.

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Oxford University Press
0198706162 / 9780198706168
Paperback / softback
323
26/11/2015
United Kingdom
English
xviii, 197 pages : illustrations (black and white)
18 cm
Previous edition: 2007.