Development and Human Rights: Rhetoric and Reality in India

by Joel E. Oestreich

Book Overview

In 2003, the United Nations adopted a common rights-based approach to development in their efforts to promote an international standard of human rights throughout the world. The approach emphasizes economic, social, and cultural rights, but plays down the role of civil and political rights in development. Intergovernmental and non-governmental agencies operate only at the invitation and sufferance of their hosts, and states retain full sovereignty...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019063734X
• ISBN13: 9780190637347
• Release Date: May 2017
• Publisher: Oxford Univ PR
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.4"