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Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. Date: 2001. Hardcover. 0812236017 . 278 pp. Appears unread. A collection of papers arguing for the reintegration of economic, social, and cultural rights into the human rights agenda. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall . 2001. University of Pennsylvania Press ISBN 0812236017 9780812236019 [CA]

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ISBN10: 0812236017, ISBN13: 9780812236019, [publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press, Pennsylvania] Hardcover Hardcover. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, arguably the founding document of the human rights movement, fully embraces economic, social, and cultural rights, as well as civil and political rights, within its text. However, for most of the fifty years since the Declaration was adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations, the focus of the international community has been on civil and political rights. This focus has slowly shifted over the past two decades. Recent international human rights treatiessuch as the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Womengrant equal importance to protecting and advancing nonpolitical rights.In this collection of essays, Isfahan Merali, Valerie Oosterveld, and a team of human rights scholars and activists call for the reintegration of economic, social, and cultural rights into the human rights agenda. The essays are divided into three sections. First the contributors examine traditional conceptualizations of human rights that made their categorization possible and suggest a more holistic rights framework that would dissolve such boundaries. In the second section they discuss how an integrated approach actually produces a more meaningful analysis of individual economic, social, and cultural rights. Finally, the contributors ...