THE ATLAS OF HUMAN RIGHTS Mapping Violations of Freedom around the Globe

Fagan, Andrew

ISBN 10: 0520261232 / ISBN 13: 9780520261235

Published by University of California Press, Berkeley, CA, 2010

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Very Good in wrappers. ; 0.4 x 9.6 x 7.3 Inches; 132 pages.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: THE ATLAS OF HUMAN RIGHTS Mapping Violations of Freedom around the Globe
• Publisher: University of California Press, Berkeley, CA
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0520261232
• ISBN 13: 9780520261235
• Binding: Softcover
• Edition: First Edition; First Printing.
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Synopsis

In the post-9/11 world, governments are using the threat of terrorism to justify tightening national security and restricting basic human rights. This timely book addresses the implications of this trend, revealing human rights inequities from nation to nation and the consequences of these inequities worldwide. Inspired by the United Nations' Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Andrew Fagan considers the nature of the state, national identity, and citizenship. His comprehensive and succinct text explores judicial violations and legal restrictions that permit state-sponsored torture, indefinite detention, capital punishment, and police brutality. Vividly illustrated with colorful maps and charts, The Atlas of Human Rights charts both the progress and limitation of free expression and media censorship. It displays the areas that are beset with wars, conflict, migration, and genocide; details the geographic status of sexual freedom, racism, religious freedom, and the rights of the disabled; focuses on women's rights, sex slavery, and the rights of the child. As intolerance threatens diversity on a global scale, The Atlas of Human Rights serves as a crucial intervention to preserving and extending freedom.

About the Author

Andrew Fagan is Deputy Director of the Human Rights Centre, University of Essex. He is editor of the Essex Internet Encyclopedia of Human Rights and the author of many books, including Human Rights: Confronting Myths and Misunderstandings and (with Janet Dine) Human Rights and Capitalism: A Multidisciplinary Perspective on Globalisation.