The Global Struggle for Human Rights: Universal Principles in World Politics - Softcover

Delaet, Debra L.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1285462602 ISBN 13: 9781285462608

Verlag: CENGAGE LEARNING, 2014

Inhaltsangabe

Explore the tension between state sovereignty and human rights, genocide, economic rights, and various concepts of justice as they relate to the promotion of fundamental human rights with THE GLOBAL STRUGGLE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS: UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLES IN WORLD POLITICS. This textbook covers human rights in relation to gender equity, feminist perspectives, and sexual orientation and suggests a universal perspective on human rights sensitive to cultural differences and diversity among and within nations. The text also explores human rights law and the question of whether human rights are universal.

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Debra L. DeLaet is a Professor of Politics and International Relations at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa where she teaches courses on human rights, global health, the United Nations, international law, and gender & world politics. Her major research interests are in the area of human rights, global health, and gender issues in world politics. She is the author of U.S. Immigration Policy in an Age of Rights (Praeger 2000) and (co-authored with David E. DeLaet) Global Health in the 21st Century: the Globalization of Disease and Wellness (Paradigm Publishers, 2012). In addition to these books, she has published numerous articles and book chapters on a variety of topics, including gay marriage as a religious right, justice for children born of war, and sexual orientation discrimination in international human rights law.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: CENGAGE LEARNING
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1285462602
• ISBN 13: 9781285462608
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 249
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