About the Book: Human Rights: Text and Context
Human Rights: Text and Context deals with various theoretical perspectives on
human rights (globalists versus anti-globalists, unilateralists versus
multi-lateralists, and market ideology versus religious fundamentalists) as well
as different dimensions of human rights, both global and local. An attempt has
also been made to demystify the myth that human rights originated in modern
Western Europe. It has been shown here that there has been the evolution of
human rights in many developing countries in ancient period itself; for example,
in Babylonia, Hammurabi Code was declared regarding justice and punishment way
back in 1700 BCE. Similarly, in ancient India too,