Human rights : a very short introduction /
Andrew Clapham.
- New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
- 193 p. : ill ; 18 cm.
- Very short introductions ; 163 .
- Very short introductions ; 163. .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 164-181) and index.
A brief introduction to human rights that focuses on twenty-first-century issues; and discusses the historical origins, philosophical foundations, and legalities of the international crime of torture, privacy rights, discrimination, the death penalty, and more.