About This Textbook
In all civilized nations, attempts are made to define and buttress human rights. The core of the concept is the same everywhere: Human rights are the rights that one has simply because one is human. They are universal and equal. The following pubilcation gives an overview of Human Rights across the globe.
The online version of this book is availabe in several languages: Arabic, French, Farsi, Spanish, Russian, Chinese, Korean, and Vietnamese.
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United States Department of State Bureau of International Information Programs
Publisher
GPA Publications
Publish Date
2014
Level
Undergraduate
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Associate Director Community Graduate Studies (Faculty of Education)
Brenda D. Davis, Simon Fraser University
"Human Rights in Brief" as supplementary material may be beneficial for some first year students by giving a very broad overview of human rights development. It should not be used as a required text for any course in BC. It is unfortunate that there was not „
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Stephen Spong, Centennial College
The text is actually interesting as a cultural artefact in its own right, reflecting the ways in which the United States government sees the world and their role in it. For use in a Canadian classroom it would need some fairly substantial tweaks, although this „
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Dale Martelli, Simon Fraser University
I indicate that this textbook would be useful for first year but only because I had to mark the bubble. I might use this in an American, grade 5 elementary classroom. „