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Human rights in crisis

This volume expands our understanding of the pursuit of human rights during the era of the War on Terror. It explores the broad and complicated ramifications of crisis by looking comparatively at societies in the present era and looking back at the historical and legal foundations of human rights.
Print Book, English, ©2008
Ashgate, Aldershot, ©2008
estudios y conferencias
VI, 160 p. ; 24 cm
9780754670285, 0754670287
851315674
Human rights law, executive powers, and torture on the post-9/11 era / Lilsa Hajjar
Human rights advocates in the post-9/11 era / Ashley Barr
The body counts : civilian casualties and the crisis of human rights / Amy Ross
International human rights law : struggling between apology and utopia / Richard Burchill
Women's human rights in the twenty-first century : crisis, challenge, and opportunity / Marsha A. Freeman
The Center for Justice & Accountability : holding human rights abusers responsible in the United States and abroad / Matt Eisenbrandt
Human trafficking and migration / Dina Francesca Haynes
Doctors Without Borders and the moral economy of pharmaceuticals / Peter Redfield