Human Rights: Politics and Practice, 2nd Edition

• Comprehensive human rights textbook which takes politics students beyond a legal approach to human rights, combining coverage of core approaches with detailed studies of key issues.
• Makes extensive use of case studies to illustrate key points and emphasize the practical and political dynamics of human rights.
• Takes a multi-disciplinary approach, drawing together contributions from political and social scientists, philosophers, lawyers, and policy experts.
• Ensures that students are up to date with cutting edge research in a constantly evolving field.
• Includes practical chapters and well-received pedagogical features.

New to this edition

• A new chapter on feminist and non-western challenges to human rights.
• An expanded chapter on measurement introduces cutting edge technologies.
• Expanded treatment of controversial issues including group rights and social and economic rights.
• More in depth discussion of future directions and challenges for human rights.

Human Rights: Politics and Practice provides a comprehensive introduction to human rights that takes students beyond a purely legal perspective to look at theoretical issues and practical approaches. It brings together international experts including political scientists, philosophers, lawyers, and policy-makers, and is up to date with a constantly evolving field.

The second edition sees an expansion of theoretical content, and introduces students to areas of growing importance, including non-western approaches to human rights. It also looks at feminist approaches, and includes more material on group and individual rights. In addition, the book includes more critical perspectives, and there is more material on global civil society and children's human rights. A new concluding chapter charts the possible future development of human rights and ensures that students are up to date.

The book includes carefully considered pedagogical features to aid student learning, and the practical chapters each contain a case study which explores a concrete example in depth. 

The book is accompanied by an Online Resource Centre, which enhances student learning and provides valuable support for lecturers.

For Students:
Links to key documents
Web links
Flashcard glossary

For Lecturers:
Test Bank
PowerPoint slides

Readership: Third year undergraduates and MA students studying human rights.