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The politics of human rights protection : moving intervention upstream with impact assessment /
This important work argues that human rights abuse is not necessarily about distant places and peoples, and it is neither incomprehensible nor inevitable. Despite seeming consensus about the importance of human rights protection, abuse-based in inequality-continues to expand. This empowering book se...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lanham, Md :
Rowman & Littlefield,
©2009.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The human rights perspective and the need for impact assessment
- What's in a name? Deconstructing human rights terms and concepts
- The dialectics of building an international human rights regime
- Human rights cleavages and controversies : the discourse
- The globalization of vulnerability
- From the ashes : Argentina's return from meltdown
- Participation and accountability
- Wayfarers in a walled-up world
- Chile's long way home
- The political dimensions of diversity
- Feminism, democracy, and self-determination : the Taiwanese experience
- The naked ape in nature : master or guardian?
- China's three gorges : the dam and the damned
- From sustainable war to sustainable peace
- Against all odds : East Timor's quest for independence
- Empire as a state of war
- Terror and the war to end all rights
- Cautious mainstreaming, constructive subversion
- Conclusion : playing from strength.