Human Rights and the New World Order: Universality, Acceptability and Human Diversity - Hardcover

Ojo, Bamidele A

 
9781560724384: Human Rights and the New World Order: Universality, Acceptability and Human Diversity

Synopsis

This book is divided into two parts, with the first dealing with the examination of the evolution of the concept- human rights, while focussing on the period since the 1948 declaration. In this part, there is an examination of the strands of debates that have characterized the evolutionary nature of the concept, given the socio-political and economic changes since the second world war.

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Synopsis

Explores the possible impact of the contemporary international order on the interpretations and implementation of international human rights regimes. Argues that appeals for human rights have traditionally been made on superficial and inconsequential but politically conditioned criteria only because no effective enforcement procedures and mechanism

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