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Crimes Against Humanity: The Struggle for Global Justice (Paperback)
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Short Description for Crimes Against HumanityPresenting the story of how the human rights idea has come to dominate world politics, this title shows how human rights has penetrated the legal armour of the sovereign State. It sets out the rights of humankind in the 21st Century, and predicts what this movement has in store - for tyrants and torturers, as well as for the superpowers.
Full description- Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
- Published: 31 August 2006
- Format: Paperback 800 pages
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- Categories: Human Rights | Civil Rights & Citizenship
- ISBN 13: 9780141024639 ISBN 10: 0141024631
- Sales rank: 56,713
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Full description for Crimes Against Humanity
A revised and updated edition of Geoffrey Robertson's impassioned, this is an authoritative guide to an issue of massive global importance. He tells the dramatic story of how the human rights idea has come to dominate world politics. He reveals how human rights has penetrated the legal armour of the sovereign State. He sets out, without legal jargon, the rights of humankind in the 21st Century. And he predicts what this movement has in store - not only for tyrants and torturers, but also for the superpowers who still resist the demands for universal justice.

