International Human Rights Law - Returning to Universal Principles

Informationen zum Autor Mark Gibney is Belk Distinguished Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of North Carolina at Asheville and Raoul Wallenberg Visiting Professor of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law at Lund University. Klappentext This clear and compelling textoffers a vastly different approach to human rights. Arguing that not only are human rights universal, but so are the obligations to protect these rights, Mark Gibney concludes that there is a moral and legal imperative to return to the universal principles human rights were founded on. Zusammenfassung This clear and compelling text offers a vastly different approach to human rights. Arguing that not only are human rights universal! but so are the obligations to protect these rights! Mark Gibney concludes that there is a moral and legal imperative to return to the universal principles human rights were founded on. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface: The Nightmare IntroductionStep One: Responsibility Step Two: Territory Step Three: Accountability Step Four: Remedy Conclusion: The End of Human Rights-or Just the Start?About the Author

Product details

• Authors: Mark Gibney, Gibney Mark
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 13.08.2015
• EAN: 9781442249097
• ISBN: 978-1-4422-4909-7
• No. of pages: 174
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Civil law, civil procedural law; Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, Human rights & civil liberties law, LAW / International, LAW / Public, LAW / Civil Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights, Human rights, civil rights, Law: Human rights and civil liberties, Public international law: human rights, International human rights law