Human Rights: Southern Voices: Francis Deng, Abdullahi An-Na'im, Yash Ghai, Upendra Baxi

Book Overview

A just international order and a healthy cosmopolitan discipline of law need to include perspectives that take account of the standpoints, interests, concerns and beliefs of non-Western people and traditions. The dominant scholarly and activist discourses about human rights have developed largely without reference to these other viewpoints. Claims about universality sit uneasily with ignorance of other traditions and parochial or ethnocentric tendencies...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521130263
• ISBN13: 9780521130264
• Release Date: October 2009
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.8" x 9.6"