Human Rights

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Abstract

This chapter provides a general introduction to the idea of human rights as it is embodied in a variety of different legal regimes at the international, regional and national levels. It also comments on the interdisciplinary aspects of human rights and situates it in its historical context.keywordshuman rightsinternational covenant on civil and political rights (iccpr)freedom rightsinternational covenant on economic, social and cultural rights (icescr)universal declaration of human rights (udhr)these keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationIntroduction to Law
EditorsJaap Hage, Antonia Waltermann, Bram Akkermans
Place of PublicationCham
PublisherSpringer
Pages303-329
Edition2
ISBN (Electronic)978-3-319-57252-9
ISBN (Print)978-3-319-57251-2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2017

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