Human Rights from Community
A Rights-Based Approach to Development
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Edinburgh University Press
Published:15th Jun '13
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Poverty, exclusion and lack of participation are symptomatic of state and market-based approaches to human rights. Oche Onazi uses Nigeria as a case study to show how the idea of community is a better alternative, capable of inspiring the poor and the vulnerable to organise themselves democratically and claim ownership of the processes that determine their human rights.
An important contribution to both academic literature and the debate surrounding international development policies and the fulfilment of access to economic and social rights. -- Joanna Morley, School of Advanced Study, University of London * International Community Law Review *
Human rights and community often have a contentious relationship - this book aims to show that human rights are an integral part of the love and empathy, which humans need to realise community. In lucid, passionate and sensitive prose, Onazi develops this theory using the example of development politics in Nigeria. * Zenon Bankowski, Professor Emeritus of Legal Theory, The University of Edinburgh School of Law *
ISBN: 9780748654673
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 526g
256 pages