Various international declarations and treaties offer formulations of human rights that are, for
the most part, clear enough to support reasonably precise estimates of the extent to which …

The moral seriousness of the existence of global poverty is hard to dispute. According to
recent UN figures, 1.2 billion people have to survive on less than $1 per day (UNDP 2000 …

According to traditional models of human rights, states are responsible for securing the
rights of their citizens. But these models do not fit reality: States are often unwilling or unable …

Answering the title question requires explicating its meaning and examining the empirical
evidence. The first task is begun in this introduction, which gives a rough account of the two …

During the last decade, a major scholarly literature on human rights has developed. The
bulk of this literature deals with international law and politics. By contrast, this book contains …

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Despite a high and growing global average income, billions of human beings are still
condemned to life long severe poverty, with all its attendant evils of low life expectancy …

What are human rights? Why do we have them? How do we know for sure which rights are
specific to humans? And how should we respond when we disagree on them and on the …

A climate of optimism pervades discussions of human rights today. The end of the Cold War,
the wave of democratizations and liberalizations in the Third World, and the collapse of …

Human rights have fallen on hard times, yet they are more necessary than ever. People all
over the world–from Amazonian villages to Iranian prisons–need human rights to gain …