Human rights, southern voices : Francis Deng, Abdullahi An-Na'im, Yash Ghai and Upendra Baxi

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Label

Human rights, southern voices : Francis Deng, Abdullahi An-Na'im, Yash Ghai and Upendra Baxi

Title remainder

Francis Deng, Abdullahi An-Na'im, Yash Ghai and Upendra Baxi

Statement of responsibility

edited by William Twining

Contributor

• Twining, William L.

Editor

• Twining, William L.

Subject

• Baxi, Upendra
• Deng, Francis Mading, 1938-
• Ghai, Yash P, 1938-
• Human rights
• Human rights -- Africa
• Human rights -- Asia
• Human rights -- History
• Human rights -- Middle East
• Human rights -- Political aspects
• Human rights -- South America
• Naʻīm, ʻAbd Allāh Aḥmad, 1946-

Language

eng

Summary

"A just international order and a healthy cosmopolitan discipline of law need to include perspectives that take account of the standpoints, interests, concerns and beliefs of non-Western people and traditions. The dominant scholarly and activist discourses about human rights have developed largely without reference to these other viewpoints. Claims about universality sit uneasily with ignorance of other traditions and parochial or ethnocentric tendencies. The object of the book is to make accessible the ideas of four jurists who present distinct 'Southern' perspectives on human rights." --Book Jacket

Member of

• Law in context

Cataloging source

UkCbUP

Index

index present

LC call number

K3240

LC item number

.H8587 2009

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Series statement

Law in context