No-nonsense Guide to Human Rights - Softcover

Ball, Olivia

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1897071175 ISBN 13: 9781897071175

Publisher: Between the Lines, 2006

Synopsis

Our inalienable human rights were enshrined over 50 years ago in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. However, what does that mean to someone who is tortured, denied education or work, or unable to find asylum?

This No-Nonsense Guide looks at the theories of rights and universalism. It explores the difficult task of protecting human rights in times of war, the advances in international laws that have led to some rights abusers facing justice, and the conflicts that can occur when rights collide with culture. While progress is being made in some areas, millions continue to suffer. As the war on terror is drags on, the question begs to be asked: Are we willing to sacrifice hard-fought rights for so-called security?

About this title

About the Author

OLIVIA BALL holds qualifications in community development and development studies, and an MA in Human Rights from the University of London. She is now an Adjunct Lecturer at Curtin University's Centre for Human Rights Education. Find her online at blog.rightsbase.org

PAUL GREADY is a Senior Lecturer in Human Rights at the Centre for International Human Rights (CIHR), Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London. He has published widely on human rights, transitional justice, civil society and social movements, and rights and development.

Review

'For anyone who wants a lucid, factual, reliable guide to some of the most important issues of our time, I strongly recommend you check out the No-Nonsense Guides.' Howard Zinn, historian, playwright and social activist 'A splendid series of pocketable guides to issue politics... rigorously clear' The Guardian, London The No-Nonsense Guides are the most accessible and enjoyable means for people with hurried lives to find out how the world really works George Monbiot, journalist, campaigner and author of The Age of Consent and Captive State 'Publishers have created lists of short books that discuss the questions that your average [electoral] candidate will only ever touch if armed with a slogan and a soundbite. Together [such books] hint at a resurgence of the grand educational tradition... Closest to the hot headline issues are The No-Nonsense Guides. These target those topics that a large army of voters care about, but that politicos evade. Arguments, figures and documents combine to prove that good journalism is far too important to be left to (most) journalists.' Boyd Tonkin,The Independent, London 'For as long as I have been writing about North-South issues - and that's longer than I care to remember - the New Internationalist has been there with pungent, pithy, probing, political analysis. Now they've had the bright idea to encapsulate some of their accumulated wisdom in the No-Nonsense Guides. You can't go wrong - I personally intend to order the whole series' Susan George, Transnational Institute, and author of The Debt Trap and Another World is Possible if...

Edition details

• Publisher: Between the Lines
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1897071175
• ISBN 13: 9781897071175
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 1