Human Rights Standards

Human Rights StandardsA bracing critique of human rights law and activism from the perspective of the Global South. How are human rights norms made, who makes them, and why? In Human Rights Standards, Makau Mutua traces the history of the human rights project and critically explores how the norms of the human rights movement have been created. Examining key texts and documents published since the inception of the human rights movement at the end of World War II, he crafts

prompting them to recalibrate everything they think they know about medieval China

The people he writes about are presented in chronological order from 1959 to today

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when he stumbles across a former model named Irena

These case studies

and Catherine Portuges

and public health research related to the origins of

and the implications of yield gap studies for sustainable agricultural development to meet future rice demand

The rationale for this "inclusivism" is the continuing acceptance of the doctrine of "Skillful Means" (hōben) as expressed in the Lotus Sutra-a notion repudiated or radically reinterpreted by most of the Kamakura reformers

focusing on the national public broadcaster Raidió Teilifís Éireann and Dublin community stations and examining the opportunities provided for voicing migrant experience in transcultural program production

Ideal as a text in upper-level undergraduate and beginning graduate courses on oppression

and many other arenas—the text will also be a valuable addition to other graduate nursing leadership programs