The politics of human rights : the quest for dignity /
by Sabine C. Carey, Mark Gibney, Steven C. Poe.
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2010.
- 241p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
This is a textbook analysing where and why human rights are violated. Adopting an empirical approach, it provides a different slant to the theoretical approaches of other texts and directly challenges many of the previously unquestioned assumptions concerning human rights.