Human Rights: A Very Short Introduction

Andrew Clapham

Human Rights: A Very Short Introduction (2nd edn)

Andrew Clapham

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Abstract

Human Rights: A Very Short Introduction considers the controversies surrounding the human rights movement by focusing on highly topical issues such as torture, arbitrary detention, privacy, equality, health, and discrimination. It discusses the historical origins of human rights and how they are formed in law; explains what our human rights actually are; and considers where the human rights movement might be heading. Today, it is usually not long before a problem gets expressed as a human rights issue. Indeed, human rights law continues to gain increasing attention internationally, and must move quickly in order to keep up with a social world, which is changing so rapidly.

Keywords: Amnesty International, Civil and Political Rights, crimes against humanity, discrimination, foreign policy, human rights, right to life, right to Work, slavery, torture, Universal Declaration of Human Rights

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Publisher:: Oxford University Press

Print Publication Date:: Nov 2015

Print ISBN-13:: 9780198706168

Published online:: Nov 2015

DOI:: 10.1093/actrade/9780198706168.001.0001

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Andrew Clapham, author Professor of Public International Law at the Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva
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Human Rights: A Very Short Introduction (2nd edn)

Andrew Clapham

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