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What human rights are not (or not only) : a negative path to human rights practice / Isabel Trujillo, Francesco Viola.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Trujillo, Isabel, author.
- Viola, Francesco, author.
- Series:
- Human rights, background and issues.
- Human Rights: Backgound and Issues
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Human rights--Psychological aspects.
- Human rights.
- Human rights--Social aspects.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (156 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York, New York : Nova Science Publishers, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The book aims at offering an overview of the current human rights practice, indicating some main specific features able to provide a meaningful explanation of the complex phenomenon. It attempts to highlight its moral, social and legal dimensions, its theoretical and institutional origin, but also the specificity of the current phase of the protection of rights, and its uses in the domestic and international domain. It aims at showing the connection between the idea of law as a social practice and the practice of human rights, the former working as explanatory framework, the latter characterized by specific features.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed on May 29, 2014).
- ISBN:
- 1-63117-934-9
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