Research Catalog

Title

Human rights and diversity : area studies revisited / edited by David P. Forsythe and Patrice C. McMahon.

Publication

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2003.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Forsythe, David P., 1941-
• McMahon, Patrice C.

Description

x, 330 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Human rights in international perspective ; v. 7

Uniform Title

• Project Muse UPCC books
• Human rights in international perspective v. 7.

Subject

• Human rights
• Human rights > Cross-cultural studies

Genre/Form

• Cross-cultural studies
• Étude comparée (Descripteur de forme)

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Civilization geography of government respect for human rights, 1981-99 / David L. Richards -- Does region matter in provision of the human right to physical integrity? / Steven C. Poe -- Margin of appreciation doctrine of the European Court of Human Rights / Eva Brems -- Between delight and despair / Patrice C. McMahon -- Role of democracy in the protection of human rights / Richard Burchill -- African women, traditions, and human rights / Corinne Packer -- Human rights and child labor in South Asia / Mahmood Monshipouri -- Human rights and indigenous peoples in Africa and Asia / Robert K. Hitchcock -- Promoting women's rights against patriarchal cultural claims / Zehra F. Kabasakal Arat -- Status of human rights in the Middle East / Emile Sahliyeh -- Ethnic constitutional orders and human rights / Ilan Peleg.

ISBN

0803220200 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2002156584

OCLC

• 51297147
• SCSB-10016509

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library