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By Christopher N. J. Roberts

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ISBN-13: 9781107014633

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this present day, the belief of human rights enjoys near-universal aid; but, there's deep confrontation approximately what human rights truly are - their precise resource of starting place, how you can learn them, and the way top to handle their deficits. during this sweeping old exploration, Christopher N. J. Roberts strains those modern conflicts again to their moments of inception and indicates how greater than a part century in the past, a sequence of contradictions labored their method into the foreign invoice of Human Rights, the basis of the fashionable method of human rights. via viewing human rights as representations of human kinfolk that emerge from fight, this e-book charts a brand new course into the topic of human rights and gives a unique idea and method for rigorous empirical study.

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