TY - BOOK AU - Freeman,Michael TI - Human rights : an interdisciplinary approach T2 - Key concepts series SN - 9780745639666 AV - JC571 .F675 2011 U1 - 323 22 PY - 2011/// CY - Cambridge PB - Polity Press KW - Human rights KW - Politics and Government KW - eflch KW - Mensenrechten KW - gtt N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. [212]-234) and index; Introduction: thinking about human rights -- Origins : the rise and fall of natural rights -- After 1945 : the new age of rights -- Theories of human rights -- The role of the social sciences -- Universality, diversity and difference : culture and human rights -- The politics of human rights -- Globalization, development and poverty : economics and human rights -- Human rights in the twenty-first century N2 - Introducing readers to the theory and practice of human rights, this text emphasises how the experiences of the victims of human rights violations are related to legal, philosophical and social-scientific approaches to human rights ER -