Human Rights Worldwide: A Reference Handbook

This recent addition to ABC‐Clio's Contemporary World Issues series provides a clear, up to date and objective overview of the human rights field, some of the key debates and issues, and resources relating to key human rights documents and institutions. Zehra F. Kabasakal Arat, Professor of Political Science at Purchase College, SUNY, in the USA, has succeeded in compiling a reliable reference source concerning an area hotly debated and at the cutting edge of some contemporary world issues.

This handy reference work consists of four chapters, outlining the origins and development of the concept of human rights, issues of contention...