The Challenge of Human Rights: Origin, Development and Significance

• Provides an engaging study of the origin and the philosophical and political development of human rights discourse.
  
• Offers an original defence of human rights.
  
• Explores the significance of human rights in the context of increasing globalisation.
  
• Confronts the major objections to human rights, including the charge of western ethical imperialism and cultural relativism.
  
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Argues that human rights logically culminate in an ethical cosmopolitanism to reflect the moral unity of the human race.