Making sense of human rights /

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Author / Creator:	Nickel, James W.
Edition:	2nd ed.
Imprint:	Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2007.
Description:	267 p. ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	United Nations. -- General Assembly. -- Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Universal Declaration of Human Rights (United Nations. General Assembly) Civil rights. Human rights. Civil rights. Human rights.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6249217

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ISBN:	140514534X (hardcover : alk. paper) 9781405145343 (hardcover : alk. paper) 1405145358 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9781405145350 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (p. [243]-255) and index.

Table of Contents:

Introduction
1. The Contemporary Idea of Human Rights
2. Human Rights as Rights
3. Making Sense of Human Rights
4. Starting Points for Justifying Human Rights
5. A Framework for Justifying Specific Rights
6. The List Question
7. Due Process Rights and Terrorist Emergencies
8. Economic Liberties as Fundamental Freedoms
9. Social Rights as Human Rights
10. Minority Rights
11. Eight Responses to the Relativist
12. The Good Sense in Human Rights
Appendix 1. Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Appendix 2. The European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms
Appendix 3. International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
Appendix 4. International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
Bibliography and References
Index

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