Global Responsibility for Human Rights: World Poverty and the Development of International Law

by Margot E. Salomon

World poverty represents a failure of the international community to see half of the global population secure their basic socio-economic rights. Yet international law foresees cooperation as essential to the realization of these human rights. In an era of considerable interdependence and entrenched economic and political advantage, the particular features of contemporary world poverty give rise to pressing questions about the scope, evolution, and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199284423
• ISBN13: 9780199284429
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.2"