The Human Rights Paradox: Universality and Its Discontents (Critical Human Rights)

By Unknown Author.

The Human Rights Paradox: Universality and Its Discontents (Critical Human Rights)

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Human rights are paradoxical. Advocates across the world invoke the idea that such rights belong to all people, no matter who or where they are. But since humans can only realize their rights in particular places, human rights are both always and never universal.             The Human Rights Paradox is the first book to fully embrace this contradiction and reframe human rights as history, contemporary social advocacy, and future prospect. In case studies that span Africa, Latin America, South and Southeast Asia, and the United States, c...

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0299299740, 9780299299743

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