Andrew Clapham (Professor of Public International Law at the Gradua

Human Rights: A Very Short Introduction

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

What are our human rights? What are their philosophical justifications and historical origins? Focusing on highly topical issues such as torture, arbitrary detention, privacy, and discrimination, this Very Short Introduction discusses the controversies and complexities behind these vitally relevant issues.

Produktdetails

• Very Short Introductions
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• 2nd upd. ed.
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. November 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 172mm x 108mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 160g
• ISBN-13: 9780198706168
• ISBN-10: 0198706162
• Artikelnr.: 42796472

Autorenporträt

Andrew Clapham is Professor of Public International Law at the Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva. Before he joined the Graduate Institute of International Studies Institute in 1997, he was the Representative of Amnesty International to the United Nations in New York. He was the Director of the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights from 2006 until 2014. His publications include The 1949 Geneva Conventions: A Commentary, co-edited with Paola Gaeta and Marco Sassòli, (OUP 2015) and The Oxford Handbook of International Law in Armed Conflict, co-edited with Paola Gaeta (OUP 2014).

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1: Looking at rights
2: Historical development and contemporary concerns
3: Human rights foreign policy and the role of the United Nations
4: Torture
5: Deprivations of life and liberty
6: Balancing rights - free speech and privacy
7: Food, education, health, housing, and work
8: Discrimination and equality
9: The death penalty
Final remarks
References
Further reading
Annex: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Index