Human Rights Without Democracy?: Reconciling Freedom with Equality

Haller, Gret

 
9780857457868: Human Rights Without Democracy?: Reconciling Freedom with Equality
ISBN 10: 0857457861 ISBN 13: 9780857457868
Verlag: Berghahn Books, 2012

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argues that Human Rights must be established democratically explains why, from a philosophical point of view, liberty and equality need not be mutually exclusive outlines the history of the concept of Human Rights compares how Human Rights are understood in the United States in contrast to Great Britain and Continental Europe and uncovers vast differences.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Gret Haller is a lawyer, politician, and author. In 1987 she became a member of Swiss parliament and in 1993/94 was its Speaker, as well as a member of the Parliamentary Assemblies of the Council of Europe and OSCE. She has served as Swiss ambassador to the Council of Europe and from 1996 to 2000 was OSCE Human Rights Ombudsperson for Bosnia and Herzegovina in Sarajevo. The University of St. Gallen awarded her an honorary doctorate for her work in human rights. Her publications include Limits of Atlanticism: Perceptions of State, Nation and Religion in Europe and the United States (2007) and Menschenrechte und Volkssouveränität in Europa. Gerichte als Vormund der Demokratie? (with Klaus Günther adn Ulfrid Neumann, Campus Verlag 2011).

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Verlag
Berghahn Books
Erscheinungsdatum
2012
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0857457861
ISBN 13 
9780857457868
Einband
Bibliothekseinband
Anzahl der Seiten
200
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