Human Rights, Southern Voices

Francis Deng, Abdullahi An-Na'im, Yash Ghai and Upendra Baxi

248 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

A just international order and a healthy cosmopolitan discipline of law need to include perspectives that take account of the standpoints, interests, concerns and beliefs of non-Western people and traditions. The dominant scholarly and activist discourses about human rights have developed largely without reference to these other viewpoints. Claims about universality sit uneasily with ignorance of other traditions and parochial or ethnocentric tendencies. The object of the book is to make accessible the ideas of four jurists who present distinct 'Southern' perspectives on human rights.

• Reihe: Cambridge University Press
• ISBN: 9780521130264
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 24.09.2009
• Größe: 249 x 177 mm
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Herausgegeben von: William Twining