Human Rights, is not a thing, but a concept, a way of thinking and making claims about certain events. These claims derive from moral rules and are expressed in legal terms or United Nations dialect. Human Rights is an introductory text that is both innovative and challenging. -- ToC: introduction; the rise and fall of natural rights; after 1945: the new age of rights; theories of human rights;…
Essays addresses the issue of the post-9/11/2001 decade, also deals with aspects of the legality of the war in Iraq, notably, from the perspective of the controversial doctrine of humanitarian intervention.