The Challenge of Human Rights: Origin, Development and SignificanceISBN: 978-1-4051-5241-9
Paperback
240 pages
October 2006, Wiley-Blackwell
 Other Available Formats: Hardcover
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- Provides an engaging study of the origin and the philosophical
and political development of human rights discourse.
- Offers an original defence of human rights.
- Explores the significance of human rights in the context of
increasing globalisation.
- Confronts the major objections to human rights, including the
charge of western ethical imperialism and cultural
relativism.
Argues that human rights logically culminate in an ethical cosmopolitanism to reflect the moral unity of the human race.
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