Based on two international conferences on human rights (sponsored, in part, by UNESCO): the first was held in Maastricht, the Netherlands, Sept. 1987; the secon

In 1948 the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights which declared that every human being, without “distincti

This collection of essays interrogates how human rights law and practice acquire meaning in relation to legal pluralism, ie, the co-existence of more than one r

Human rights have transformed the way in which we conceive the place of the individual within the community and in relation to the state in a vast array of disc

What can we say about justice in a pluralist world? Is there some universal justice? Are there universal human rights? What is the function of the state in the