International Human Rights, Social Policy and Global Development: Critical Perspectives - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1447349210 ISBN 13: 9781447349211

Publisher: Policy Press, 2020

Synopsis

Concepts and realities of international human rights are examined from a new social policy perspective in this comprehensive analysis. With examples from around the world, expert contributors discuss the strengths and weaknesses of ideas of universal rights, and their impact on social policy and human welfare. This is an invigorating new take on a topic of growing debate worldwide.

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About the Authors

Fred Powell served as Professor of Social Policy and founding Head of the School of Applied Social Studies at UCC for 25 years, Dean of Social Science and latterly Student Ombudsman. He received the Richard Titmuss Book Award in 2018.

Ann Marie Gray is Professor of Social Policy at Ulster University and Co-Director of ARK.

Gerard McCann is Senior Lecturer in International Studies and Head of International Programmes at St Mary's University College, a college of Queens University Belfast, UK.

Féilim Ó hAdhmaill is a Lecturer in Social Policy in the School of Applied Social Studies, University College Cork, and Programme Director for the Masters in Voluntary and Community Sector Management.

Edition details

• Publisher: Policy Press
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1447349210
• ISBN 13: 9781447349211
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 224
• Editor: McCann Gerard, Ó HAdhmaill Féilim