Your guide to uniting the issues of human rights and cultural difference
This vital textbook confronts an enduring challenge: how to reconcile universal human rights norms with respect for wide cultural differences. The chapters in this book introduce the core issues and address them through an interdisciplinary analysis of key case studies. Throughout the book, an alternative philosophical framework is offered as a model through which universalism and difference can be reconciled into a single global vision.

Key Features
. Combines the theory and application of human rights to provide practical help for students and course leaders
. Outlines a new human rights-based philosophical perspective that enables students to understand human rights within culturally diverse environments
. Key case studies examine the rights of women, ethnic and national minorities, indigenous peoples and religious communities
. Encourages active engagement by inviting readers to read each chapter in a way that enables them to subsequently answer 10 core questions.
. Suggestions for further reading provided in each chapter

Andrew Fagan is Director of Postgraduate Studies at the University of Essex. He is an internationally renowned human rights scholar.

Introduction