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Human Rights

A Very Short Introduction

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Human Rights

By: Andrew Clapham
Narrated by: Peter Lerman
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Today, it is usually not long before a problem gets expressed as a human rights issue. Indeed, human rights law continues to gain increasing attention internationally, and must move quickly in order to keep up with a social world that changes so rapidly.

This Very Short Introduction title, in its second edition, brings the issue of human rights up to date, considering the current controversies surrounding the movement. Discussing torture and arbitrary detention in the context of counter terrorism, Andrew Clapham also considers new challenges to human rights in the context of privacy, equality, and the right to health. Looking at the philosophical justification for rights, the historical origins of human rights, and how they are formed in law, Clapham explains what our human rights actually are, what they might be, and where the human rights movement is heading.

©2007, 2015 Andrew Clapham (P)2021 Tantor Ethics & Morality Freedom & Security Philosophy Politics & Government Human Rights Law
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I love the Very Shory Introduction series. This is the first one I could not complete out of maybe 50. The narrator ruined it for me completely. It was so choppy that I was constantly thrown off. Maybe it is just me and others will enjoy the narration.

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