Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Francis Mading Deng
  • The cow and the thing called "What": Dinka cultural perspectives on wealth and poverty
  • Human rights, universalism and democracy
  • A cultural approach to human rights among the Dinka
  • Abdullahi An-Na'im
  • Context and methodology: the Second Message of Islam
  • Shari'a and basic human rights concerns
  • Culural legitimation: towards a cross-cultural approach to defining international standards of human rights: the meaning of cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment
  • Islam and the secular state
  • Economic, social and cultural rights (ESCR)
  • Yash Ghai
  • Universalism and relativism: human rights as a framework for negotiating interethnic claims
  • Understanding human rights in Asia
  • Quotations
  • Upendra Baxi
  • Voices of suffering and the future of human rights
  • Rights and "development."