Human Rights Fifty Years On: A ReappraisalTony Evans This book offers a critical reappraisal of the project for universal human rights. The twentieth, thirtieth and fortieth anniversaries of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights were all marked by the publication of volumes that celebrated achievements in the field of human rights. Many of these took a self-congratulatory line that emphasized progress on the protection of human rights, ignoring the facts of torture, genocide, structural deprivation and the routine exclusion of some groups from political, economic and social participation. This book brings together some of the leading critics of the current project for universal human rights, including Noam Chomsky and Johan Galtung, as a counterweight to triumphalist approaches on the fiftieth anniversary of the Declaration. |
Contents
Noam Chomsky | 24 |
The limits of a rightsbased approach to international ethics | 58 |
Human rights law and democracy in an unfree world | 77 |
International law and human rights | 105 |
Are women human? Its not an academic question | 132 |
International financial institutions and social and economic | 161 |
coming to terms with globalization | 188 |
The Third World and human rights in the post1989 world order | 211 |
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