The Riddle of Human Rights

by Gary Teeple

Demands for "human rights" and resistance to their violation are rarely out of the news. Yet their definition is far from a settled matter, their legal status is quite varied, their uses and defence widely inconsistent between jurisdictions, and respect for them is blatantly limited. If it is held that all humans are abstractly equal in the possession of these rights, there is little agreement on anything else about them. The "human rights" of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1551930390
• ISBN13: 9781551930398
• Release Date: May 2004
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 274 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"