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Daniel J. Whelan - Indivisible Human Rights: A History - 9780812242409 - V9780812242409
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Indivisible Human Rights: A History

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Description for Indivisible Human Rights: A History Hardback. Daniel Whelan illustrates how the rhetoric of indivisibility has frequently been used to further political ends that have little to do with protecting the rights of the individual. Drawing on scores of original documents, he reveals the conflicts and compromises behind a half century of human rights discourse. Series: Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights. Num Pages: 328 pages. BIC Classification: JPVH. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 236 x 164 x 27. Weight in Grams: 572.

Human rights activists frequently claim that human rights are indivisible, and the United Nations has declared the indivisibility, interdependency, and interrelatedness of these rights to be beyond dispute. Yet in practice a significant divide remains between the two grand categories of human rights: civil and political rights, on the one hand, and economic, social, and cultural rights on the other. To date, few scholars have critically examined how the notion of indivisibility has shaped the complex relationship between these two sets of rights.
In Indivisible Human Rights, Daniel J. Whelan offers a carefully crafted account of the rhetoric of ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
Series
Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights
Number of Pages
328
Place of Publication
Pennsylvania, United States
ISBN
9780812242409
SKU
V9780812242409
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About Daniel J. Whelan
Daniel J. Whelan teaches politics and international relations at Hendrix College.

Reviews for Indivisible Human Rights: A History
"Daniel J. Whelan . . . aims to understand changing rhetoric about human rights' 'indivisibility'-more specifically, the indivisibility of civil and political rights, on one hand, and economic, social and cultural rights, on the other. . . . Whelan's book, with its painstaking attention to documentary sources, is a model of close historical reading and provides an important account of ... Read more

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