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By Winston Langley

ISBN-10: 0313301638

ISBN-13: 9780313301636

This entire and up to date encyclopedia on human rights concerns from 1945 to the current contains greater than four hundred entries on incidents and violations, tools and projects, nations, and human rights actions. Its scope is international, and its function is either to sum up the accomplishments in human rights in our time and in addition to show and describe the violations that remain perpetrated all over the world.

Entries conceal significant concerns; incidents and violations; thoughts and phrases; activists; agencies; and human rights tools. Entries hide greater than 50 international locations, from Afghanistan to Yugoslavia. Entries finish with feedback for extra readings; and a timeline of important dates due to the fact that 1945 and the textual content of the common assertion of Human Rights also are included.

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