Indivisible Human Rights: A History

by Daniel J. Whelan

Human rights activists frequently claim that human rights are indivisible, and the United Nations has declared the indivisibility, interdependency, and interrelatedness of these rights to be beyond dispute. Yet in practice a significant divide remains between the two grand categories of human rights: civil and political rights, on the one hand, and economic, social, and cultural rights on the other. To date, few scholars have critically examined...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812242408
• ISBN13: 9780812242409
• Release Date: June 2010
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.1"