Research Catalog

Title

• International human rights lexicon / Susan Marks and Andrew Clapham.

Author

Marks, Susan (Susan R.)

Publication

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2005.

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Additional Authors

Clapham, Andrew.

Description

ix, 461 p.; 25 cm.

Summary

"This book presents a wide-ranging survey of the scope and significance of international human rights law. Arranged thematically in alphabetical format, it sidesteps the traditional categories of human rights law, to investigate rights in the specific contexts in which they are invoked, debated, and considered. Entries are included on traditional topics such as children, the death penalty, and housing, along with newer issues such as arms, culture, and sexuality." "Throughout, the aim is to invite reflection on human rights in a way that avoids idealisation. For the authors, international human rights law is a process or tool, which is neither inherently beneficent nor essentially problematic, but always potentially both. This book provides the reader with the necessary background to understand, evaluate and, above all, deploy human rights as a strategy for change in the contemporary world."--Jacket.

Subject

Human rights

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Arms -- Children -- Culture -- Death penalty -- Democracy -- Detention -- Development -- Disability -- Disappearance -- Education -- Fair trial -- Food -- Globalisation -- Health -- Housing -- International crimes -- Media -- Privacy -- Protest -- Racism -- Religion -- Sexuality -- Terrorism -- Torture -- Universality -- Victims -- Women -- Work.

ISBN

• 0198764146 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 0198764138 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2005007280

OCLC

58563030

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library