The introduction of the Human Rights Act has led to an explosion in books on human rights,
yet no sustained examination of their history and philosophy exists in the burgeoning …

In this timely study of the historical, ideological, and formal interdependencies of the novel
and human rights, Joseph Slaughter demonstrates that the twentieth-century rise of “world …

This book critically examines the contemporary discourses on the nature of'human rights',
their histories, the myths that are embedded in them, and contributes an alternative reading …

The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are the most prominent initiative on the global
development agenda and have a great deal in common with human rights commitments. But …

The link between health and human rights has been recognised for many years, but the
increasing visibility of the right to health in international law has been a distinct feature of the …

The adoption by the United Nations in 1986 of the Declaration on the Right to Development
was the culmination of a long process of international campaigning for human rights. From …

In the past decade, development, democracy, and human rights have become hegemonic
political ideals. Regimes that do not at least claim to pursue rapid and sustained economic …

In the past, violations of human rights were commonly portrayed as atrocities perpetrated by
tyrannical dictatorships. Today, the images of torture at Abu Ghraib gaol, and the treatment …

The Turkish Republic has entered the first decade of the twenty-first century with not only a
new government but also a new vision. The year 2002 witnessed the coming to power of the …

Against the backdrop of globalization and mounting evidence of the corporate subversion of
the Universal Declaration of Human Rights paradigm, Anna Grear interrogates the complex …