Human Rights - The Case for the Defence

Our human rights are endangered. After the devastation of World War Two the international community united to enshrine fundamental rights to refuge, health, education and living standards. They protected privacy, fair trials and free speech and outlawed torture, slavery and discrimination. Their goal was greater global justice, equality and peace. That settlement is now under attack from opponents on both left and right and populist and authoritarian movements worldwide. Simultaneously, we are threatened by war, inequality, new tech and climate catastrophe, crises human rights can help us address.

In this urgent, powerful book, Shami Chakrabarti, demonstrates why human rights matter and why we need to secure further rights to deal with challenges of the present and future. Outlining the historic national and international struggles for human rights, from ancient Babylon to the present day, Chakrabarti is an indispensable guide to the law and logic underpinning human dignity and universal freedoms. This book equips supporters in the battle of ideas and will encourage doubters to think again.

To believe in human rights is to believe in human beings. If they - and we - are to survive, these rights must be owned and understood by everyone.<>

Product details

• Authors: Shami Chakrabarti, Chakrabarti Shami
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 01.05.2025
• EAN: 9781802060911
• ISBN: 978-1-80206-091-1
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 15 mm
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom, History: specific events & topics, Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, HISTORY / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights, Political science & theory, History: specific events and topics, Political science and theory, Civil rights & citizenship, International institutions, Human rights, civil rights, Political control and freedoms, Political Control & Freedoms