Human Rights in Crisis

by Joan Fitzpatrick and Elizabeth M. Norman

Recent events in South America, central Europe, Africa, and Russia have again brought to the world's attention the complex interrelationship between states of emergency and the preservation of fundamental human rights. In Human Rights in Crisis, Joan Fitzpatrick offers the first systematic and comprehensive effort to examine the multifaceted system for monitoring human rights abuses under "states of exception." Unlike previous studies, this book...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812232380
• ISBN13: 9780812232387
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press Anniversary
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"