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Measuring human rights / Todd Landman and Edzia Carvalho.

Title
Measuring human rights / Todd Landman and Edzia Carvalho.
Author
Landman, Todd.
Publication
Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, ©2010.

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Additional Authors
Carvalho, Edzia.
Description
xi, 162 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Summary
The measurement of human rights is much discussed throughout the various academic disciplines that focus on human rights as well as within the worldwide community of practitioners working in the field of human rights. By leading experts in the field, this is a comprehensive book on how to measure human rights.
Subject
  • University of Dundee > Staff author
  • Human rights
  • Human rights monitoring
  • Droits de l'homme (Droit international)
  • Droits de l'homme > Surveillance
  • Human rights
  • Human rights monitoring
  • Menschenrecht
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 138-156) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
The international human rights regime -- Human rights in international law -- The content of human rights -- Rights in principle -- Rights in policy -- Rights in practice -- Measurement complexity, validity, and viability -- The basic rights argument -- The obligations argument -- The implementation argument -- The unique rights argument.
ISBN
  • 9780415446495
  • 041544649X
  • 9780415446501
  • 0415446503
  • 9780203867594
  • 0203867599
LCCN
  • 2009016179
  • 40017468635
OCLC
  • 318970569
  • SCSB-9912454
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library