Human Rights from Community: A Rights-Based Approach to Development (Studies in Global Justice and Human Rights) - Softcover

Book 7 of 13: Studies in Global Justice and Human Rights

Oche Onazi

 
9781399565639: Human Rights from Community: A Rights-Based Approach to Development (Studies in Global Justice and Human Rights)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 139956563X ISBN 13: 9781399565639
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press, 2026

Synopsis

Explores how community can inspire poor and vulnerable individuals to realise their human rights

  • Shows how human rights can be better disposed to all the ramifications of development
  • Considers both the strengths and limitations of human rights
  • Promotes the role of community within human rights discourse
  • Shows how the interaction between community and human rights can offer more responsive solutions to problems such as access to electricity
Poverty, exclusion and lack of participation are symptomatic of state and market-based approaches to human rights. Oche Onazi uses Nigeria as a case study to show how the idea of community is a better alternative, capable of inspiring the poor and the vulnerable to organise themselves democratically and claim ownership of the processes that determine their human rights.

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About the Author

Dr. Oche Onazi is Lecturer in Law at the University of Dundee. He has published articles in Law, Global Development and Social Justice, Global Jurist and International Journal of Law in Context.

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Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Publication date
2026
Language
English
ISBN 10 
139956563X
ISBN 13 
9781399565639
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
256