Rights Beyond Borders: The Global Community and the Struggle Over Human Rights in China

by Rosemary Foot

Book Overview

Over the five decades since the establishment of the United Nations Charter and Universal Declaration of Human Rights, issues of human rights have become a dominant feature of our global community. An acceptance has grown of the treatment of individuals and groups within domestic societies as a legitimate focus of global attention. Played out dramatically in the US media, China has received a huge amount of this global attention, with many democracies...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198297769
• ISBN13: 9780198297765
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 308 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"