The History of Human Rights: From Ancient Times to the Globalization Era
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Edition
1st ed.
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ISBN
9789381142356
Length
viii+280p., Bibliography; Index; 22cm.
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The idea of human rights, that is the notion that anyone has a set of inviolable rights simply on grounds of being human regardless of legal status, origin or conviction for crimes, emerges as an idea of Humanism in the Early Modern period and becomes a position in the eighteenth century Age of Enlightenment. The human rights movement emerged in the 1970s, especially from former socialists in eastern and Western Europe, with major contributions also from the ...
