Human Rights Standards : Hegemony, Law, and Politics /

Human Rights Standards : Hegemony, Law, and Politics /

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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...

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Main Author: Mutua, Makau
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Albany : State University of New York Press, [2016]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
International law.
Human rights.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Human Rights.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Civil Rights.
Droits de l'homme (Droit international)
Human Rights
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • Norm setting in international law and human rights
  • The process of standing setting in human rights
  • The multiplication of actors
  • The role of NGOs in the creation of norms
  • The question of deficits
  • New and emerging standards
  • A normative critique of human rights.

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