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Can Human Rights Survive?: The Hamlyn Lectures 2005 (Hamlyn Lectures (Paperback)) (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for Can Human Rights Survive?Gearty confronts the challenges that may destroy the language of human rights for future generations.
Full description- Publisher: CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
- Published: 18 May 2006
- Format: Paperback 190 pages
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- Categories: Political Science & Theory | Human Rights | International Humanitarian Law
- ISBN 13: 9780521685528 ISBN 10: 0521685524
- Sales rank: 187,080
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Full description for Can Human Rights Survive?
In this set of three essays, originally presented as the 2005 Hamlyn Lectures, Conor Gearty considers whether human rights can survive the challenges of the war on terror, the revival of political religion, and the steady erosion of the world's natural resources. He also looks deeper than this to consider the fundamental question: How can we tell what human rights are? In his first essay, Gearty asks how the idea of human rights needs to be made to work in our age of relativism, uncertainty and anxiety. In the second, he assesses how the idea of human rights has coped with its incorporation in legal form in the UK Human Rights Act, arguing that the record is much better and more democratic than many human rights enthusiasts allow. In his final essay, Gearty confronts the challenges that may destroy the language of human rights for the generations that follow us.
