Grounding Human Rights in a Pluralist World

by Grace Y. Kao

In 1948 the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights which declared that every human being, without "distinction of any kind," possesses a set of morally authoritative rights and fundamental freedoms that ought to be socially guaranteed. Since that time, human rights have arguably become the cross-cultural moral concept and evaluative tool to measure the performance-and even legitimacy-of domestic...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1589017331
• ISBN13: 9781589017337
• Release Date: March 2011
• Publisher: Georgetown University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.61 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.4"