Oxford Amnesty Lectures – serie
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Human Rights, Human Wrongs
Oxford Amnesty Lectures 2001
Häftad, 2003
471 kr
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This edited collection, based on the 2001 Oxford Amnesty Lectures, focuses on human rights abuses and the way in which these are interpreted. The contributors are Tzvetan Todorov, Michael Ignatieff, Gayatri Spivak, Peter Singer, Gitta Sereny, Geoffrey Bindman, Susan Sontag, and Eva Hoffman, with …
Globalizing Rights
The Oxford Amnesty Lectures 1999
Häftad, 2003
424 kr
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This book, based on the prestigious Oxford Amnesty Lecture series, investigates the relationship between globalization and human rights. The contributors come to the subject from a wide range of disciplines and perspectives, and include Noam Chomsky, Kwame Anthony Appiah, Homi Bhaba, Susan George, …
Sex Rights
The Oxford Amnesty Lectures 2002
Häftad, 2005
656 kr
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Discrimination due to gender and sexual orientation tends nowadays to be prohibited under international human rights instruments, as well as under the national laws of many countries that express their commitment to defending human rights. Nonetheless, as the work of Amnesty International has …
Divided Cities
The Oxford Amnesty Lectures 2003
Häftad, 2006
471 kr
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Cities, at their best, are cradles of diversity, opportunity, and citizenship. Why, then, do so many cities today seem scarred by divisions separating the powerful and privileged from the victims of deprivation and injustice? What is it like to live on the wrong side of the divide in Paris, London, …
Displacement, Asylum, Migration
The Oxford Amnesty Lectures 2004
Häftad, 2006
675 kr
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There are few issues more urgently in need of intelligent analysis both in the UK and elsewhere than those relating to displacement, asylum, and migration. In this volume, based on the 2004 Oxford Amnesty Lectures, major figures in philosophy, political science, law, psychoanalysis, sociology, and …
Land Rights
Oxford Amnesty Lectures
Häftad, 2009
887 kr
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Indigenous peoples and governments, industrialists and ecologists all use - or have at some stage to confront - the language of land rights. That language raises as many questions as it answers. Rights of the land or rights to the land? Rights of the individual or rights of the community? Even …
War on Terror'
The Oxford Amnesty Lectures
Av Chris Miller
Inbunden, 2009
1123 kr
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The term ‘War on Terror’ (WOT) covers a mass of interlinked topics. Here an outstanding group of authors and academics dissect them from ethical, political, legal, economic and historical perspectives.Drawn from the world-famous Oxford Amnesty Lectures, the essays are substantial contributions to …
War on terror'
The Oxford Amnesty Lectures
Av Chris Miller
Häftad, 2009
371 kr
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The term ‘War on Terror’ (WOT) covers a mass of interlinked topics. Here an outstanding group of authors and academics dissect them from ethical, political, legal, economic and historical perspectives.Drawn from the world-famous Oxford Amnesty Lectures, the essays are substantial contributions to …
Incarceration and Human Rights
The Oxford Amnesty Lectures
Inbunden, 2010
1123 kr
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A collection of essays and responses from diverse contributors united in original examination of the intersection between incarceration and human rights. What do human rights concerns dictate about the practices that we tolerate in places of incarceration? And conversely, what can prisons, their …
Incarceration and Human Rights
The Oxford Amnesty Lectures
Häftad, 2010
443 kr
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A collection of essays and responses from diverse contributors united in original examination of the intersection between incarceration and human rights. What do human rights concerns dictate about the practices that we tolerate in places of incarceration? And conversely, what can prisons, their …
Religion and Rights
The Oxford Amnesty Lectures
Av Wes Williams
Inbunden, 2011
1188 kr
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Rights were once thought to derive from the God-given nature of man. But today human rights and religion are sometimes in conflict. The universal claims made for rights can put them at odds with the revealed truths from which religions derive their authority. Many people’s sense of human worth and …
Religion and Rights
The Oxford Amnesty Lectures
Av Wes Williams
Häftad, 2011
341 kr
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Rights were once thought to derive from the God-given nature of man. But today human rights and religion are sometimes in conflict. The universal claims made for rights can put them at odds with the revealed truths from which religions derive their authority. Many people’s sense of human worth and …
