Grounding human rights in a pluralist world /

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Author / Creator:Kao, Grace (Grace Y.)
Imprint:Washington, D.C. : Georgetown University Press, ©2011.
Description:1 online resource (viii, 239 pages)
Language:English
Series:Advancing human rights
Advancing human rights series.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11261507
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ISBN:9781589017603
1589017609
9781589017337
1589017331
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-224) and index.
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Summary:In 1948 the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights which declared that every human being, without "distinction of any kind," possesses a set of morally authoritative rights and fundamental freedoms that ought to be socially guaranteed. Since that time, human rights have arguably become the cross-cultural moral concept and evaluative tool to measure the performance -- and even legitimacy -- of domestic regimes. Yet questions remain that challenge their universal validity and theoretical bases. Some theorists are "maximalist."
Other form:Print version: Kao, Grace (Grace Y.). Grounding human rights in a pluralist world. Washington, D.C. : Georgetown University Press, ©2011 9781589017337
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