Humanitarianism and Human Rights: A World of Differences?

Book Overview

This book explores the fluctuating relationship between human rights and humanitarianism. For most of their lives, human rights and humanitarianism have been distant cousins. Humanitarianism focused on situations in faraway places dealing with large-scale loss of life that demanded urgent attention whilst human rights advanced the cause of individual liberty and equality at home. However, the twentieth century saw the two coming much more directly...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1108836798
• ISBN13: 9781108836791
• Release Date: October 2020
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 340 Pages
• Weight: 1.41 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"