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  • Universal Human Rights

    Moral Order in a Divided World

    Series series Philosophy and the Global Context
    Universal Human Rights brings new clarity to the important and highly contested concept universal human rights. The Charter of the United Nations commits nearly all nations of the world to promote, to realize and take action to achieve human rights and fundamental freedoms for all, yet this formal consensus masks an underlying confusion about the philosophical basis and practical implications of ... Read more

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    Winner of the Hong Yung Lee Book Award of the Center for Korean Studies, University of California, BerkeleyIn Among Women across Worlds**, Suzy Kim explores the transnational connections between North Korean women and the global women's movement.** Asian women, especially communists, are often depicted as victims of a patriarchal state. Kim challenges this view through extensive archival research, ... Read more

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    The international doctrine of human rights is one of the most ambitious parts of the settlement of World War II. Since then, the language of human rights has become the common language of social criticism in global political life. This book is a theoretical examination of the central idea of that language, the idea of a human right. In contrast to more conventional philosophical studies, the ... Read more

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