UNDERSTANDING HUMAN RIGHTS

Name: UNDERSTANDING HUMAN RIGHTS
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ISBN: 9780176252434

ISBN-10: 0176252436

ISBN-13: 9780176252434

Edition: 1st

Authors: TREMBLAY

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Understanding Human Rights: Origins, Currents and Critiques is a comprehensive text on human rights with a Canadian perspective. Although the principles underlying human rights have been generally acknowledged and accepted by the vast majority, debate about the universality of such rights can provoke strong reactions among people of different cultural backgrounds. The objective of Understanding Human Rights: Origins, Currents and Critiques is to introduce the students to the historical origins of the concept of human rights: the international regime and the acceptance of several generation of rights such as civil and political rights, economic rights, group rights and women's rights: the…

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List price: $49.50
Edition: 1st
Publisher: NELSON
Publication date: 2/26/2007




The Globalization of Human Rights



Introduction: Foundations of Human Rights



Human Rights in World Politics



Promoting Human Rights: Individuals and Organizations



Philosophical Debates



Universalist Theories of Human Rights: Origins and Critiques



Attempts at Reconciling Universalism and Relativism



Human Rights in Practice



Labour Rights and Human Rights in the Age of Globalization



Gender and Human Rights



Canada and Human Rights



Canada Before the Age of Rights



Canada and the Rights Revolution



Looking to the FutureAppendices



Universal Declaration of Human Rights



International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights



International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights



Bangkok Declaration 19935.The June 1998 ILO Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work



The 2001 Inter-American Democratic Charter



The North American Agreement on Labor Cooperation: Objectives, Obligations and Principles



Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women



Fourth World Conference on Women Platform for Action (Beijing 1995)



Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms