Imagining Human Rights

Why is it that human rights are considered inviolable norms of justice at local and global scales although the number of their violations has steadily increased in modern history? On the surface, this paradox seems to be reducible to a straightforward discrepancy between idealism and reality in huma...

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Autores principales: Susanne Kaul, David Kim
Formato: Libro
Publicado: De Gruyter 2015
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