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Contents
- 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
