Human Rights Worldwide: A Reference Handbook

Human Rights Worldwide: A Reference Handbook

by Zehra F. Kabasakal Arat
Human Rights Worldwide: A Reference Handbook

Human Rights Worldwide: A Reference Handbook

by Zehra F. Kabasakal Arat

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Overview

This work offers an insightful guide to the global struggle for human rights, the problems and shortcomings of the international human rights regime, and the resources essential to human rights studies.

From royal decrees in the ancient kingdoms of Persia and Babylon to the latest controversies over reform of the United Nations, establishing international human rights norms has been a recurrent, if sometimes elusive, objective in world affairs.

Internationally and domestically, controversies over human rights continue to fuel endless debate in politics, legal discourse, and the media. International human rights norms and treaties have helped to put Balkan war criminals behind bars, but genocidal acts continue in other parts of the world. Can governments, equipped with coercive power, eliminate human rights abuses? Who will counterbalance the increasing power of transnational corporations? How effective are the NGOs? Do human rights become a luxury under threats to the national security?


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781851097623
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: 06/08/2006
Series: Contemporary World Issues
Edition description: REV
Pages: 336
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.75(d)
Age Range: 15 Years

About the Author

Zehra F. Kabasakal Arat is professor of political science and women's studies at Purchase College, State University of New York, Purchase, NY.
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