Creating Human Rights: How Noncitizens Made Sex Persecution Matter to the World

by Lisa S. Alfredson

Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title

Creating Human Rights offers the first systematic study of a pioneering women's refugee movement and its challenge, as an international trigger case, to more conventional paths toward human rights policy development. Lisa S. Alfredson argues that such cases, which unfold in the context of a specific country and have profound impacts on international human rights efforts,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812241258
• ISBN13: 9780812241259
• Release Date: January 2009
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.0"