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100 1 _aNeier, Aryeh,
245 1 4 _aThe international human rights movement :
250 _aNew edition /
300 _axiv, 370 pages ;
490 1 _aHuman rights and crimes against humanity
505 0 _aThe movement -- Putting natural law principles into practice -- What are rights? -- International human rights law -- International humanitarian law -- Defying communism -- Rights on the other side of the Cold War divide -- Amnesty international -- Human rights watch -- The worldwide movement -- Accountability -- Rights after 9/11 -- Going forward.
520 _a"An expanded and updated edition of a classic work on human rights and global justice. Since its original publication, Basic Rights has proven increasingly influential to those working in political philosophy, human rights, global justice, and the ethics of international relations and foreign policy, particularly in debates regarding foreign policy's role in alleviating global poverty. Henry Shue asks: Which human rights ought to be the first honored and the last sacrificed? Shue argues that subsistence rights, along with security rights and liberty rights, serve as the ground of all other human rights. This classic work, now available in a thoroughly updated fortieth-anniversary edition, includes a substantial new chapter by the author examining how the accelerating transformation of our climate progressively undermines the bases of subsistence like sufficient water, affordable food, and housing safe from forest-fires and sea-level rise. Climate change threatens basic rights"--
650 0 _aHuman rights.
650 0 _aHuman rights
650 0 _aHuman rights advocacy
650 6 _aDroits de l'homme (Droit international)
650 6 _aDroits de l'homme (Droit international)
650 6 _aDéfense des droits de l'homme
650 7 _aHuman rights.
650 7 _aHuman rights advocacy.
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