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In Defence of Principles: NGOs and Human Rights in Canada (Law and Society) - Hardcover

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Thompson, Andrew S.

 
9780774818612: In Defence of Principles: NGOs and Human Rights in Canada (Law and Society)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0774818611 ISBN 13: 9780774818612
Verlag: University of British Columbia Press, 2010

Inhaltsangabe

Since 9/11 and the onset of the “war on terror,” the principal challenge confronting liberal democracies has been to balance freedom with security and individual with collective rights. This book sheds new light on the evolution of human rights norms in liberal democracies by charting the activism of four Canadian NGOs on issues of refugee rights, hate speech, and the death penalty, including their use of difficult, often controversial legal cases as platforms to assert human rights principles and shape judicial policy-making. The struggles of these NGOs reveal not only the fragility but also the resilience of ideas about rights in liberal democracies.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Andrew S. Thompson is an adjunct assistant professor of political science at the University of Waterloo.

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Since 9/11 and the onset of the "war on terror," the principal challenge confronting liberal democracies has been to balance freedom with security and individual with collective rights. This book sheds new light on the evolution of human rights norms in liberal democracies by charting the activism of four Canadian NGOs on issues of refugee rights, hate speech, and the death penalty, including their use of difficult, often controversial legal cases as platforms to assert human rights principles and shape judicial policy-making. The struggles of these NGOs reveal not only the fragility but also the resilience of ideas about rights in liberal democracies.

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Since 9/11 and the onset of the "war on terror," the principal challenge confronting liberal democracies has been to balance freedom with security and individual with collective rights. This book sheds new light on the evolution of human rights norms in liberal democracies by charting the activism of four Canadian NGOs on issues of refugee rights, hate speech, and the death penalty, including their use of difficult, often controversial legal cases as platforms to assert human rights principles and shape judicial policy-making. The struggles of these NGOs reveal not only the fragility but also the resilience of ideas about rights in liberal democracies.

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Verlag
University of British Columbia Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2010
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0774818611
ISBN 13 
9780774818612
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
203
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