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Human Rights from Below: Achieving Rights Through Community Development
Jim Ife
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Description for Human Rights from Below: Achieving Rights Through Community Development
Paperback. This book encompasses human rights and community development, arguing that each is necessary for both understanding and practising the other. Num Pages: 264 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JPVH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 15. Weight in Grams: 412. Achieving Rights Through Community Development. 264 pages, Illustrations. This book encompasses human rights and community development, arguing that each is necessary for both understanding and practising the other. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: JPVH. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 15. Weight: 412.
In Human Rights from Below, Jim Ife shows how human rights and community development are problematic terms but powerful ideals, and that each is essential for understanding and practising the other. Ife contests that practitioners - advocates, activists, workers and volunteers - can better empower and protect communities when human rights are treated as more than just a specialist branch of law or international relations, and that human rights can be better realised when community development principles are applied. The book offers a long overdue assessment of how human rights and community development are invariably interconnected. It highlights how critical ... Read more
In Human Rights from Below, Jim Ife shows how human rights and community development are problematic terms but powerful ideals, and that each is essential for understanding and practising the other. Ife contests that practitioners - advocates, activists, workers and volunteers - can better empower and protect communities when human rights are treated as more than just a specialist branch of law or international relations, and that human rights can be better realised when community development principles are applied. The book offers a long overdue assessment of how human rights and community development are invariably interconnected. It highlights how critical ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780521711081
SKU
V9780521711081
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Ref
99-2
About Jim Ife
Jim Ife holds adjunct positions at the Centre for Human Rights Education at Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Western Australia, and at the Centre for Citizenship and Human Rights at Deakin University, Victoria.
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