Human Rights From Below
Download or Read eBook Human Rights From Below PDF written by Jim Ife and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Author | : Jim Ife |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 265 |
Release | : 2009 |
ISBN-10 | : OCLC:1027164931 |
ISBN-13 | : |
Rating | : 4/5 (31 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis Human Rights From Below by : Jim Ife
Book excerpt: In Human Rights from Below, Jim Ife shows how human rights and community development are problematic terms but powerful ideals, and that each is essential for understanding and practising the other. Ife contests that practitioners - advocates, activists, workers and volunteers - can better empower and protect communities when human rights are treated as more than just a specialist branch of law or international relations, and that human rights can be better realised when community development principles are applied. The book offers a long overdue assessment of how human rights and community de.