Human Rights Transformed: Positive Rights and Positive Duties

by SandraFredmanFBA (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2008

  $191.72

  Human rights are traditionally understood as protecting individual freedom against intrusion by the State. This book argues instead that human rights are based on a richer view of freedom, going beyond absence of coercion and focusing on the ability to exercise freedom. Instead of merely restraining the State, human rights create positive duties.