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Human Rights

Human rights became binding because specific people forced the issue. Abolition, suffrage, civil rights, disability rights and the drafting of international declarations are traced here to the campaigners who carried them.

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Hannah Arendt

1906 – 1975

The Origins of Totalitarianism remains the reference work on how republics fail.

Germany·Politics · Philosophy · Human Rights

Martha Nussbaum

b. 1947

Capabilities approach to justice, and a defence of emotion in public reason.

United States·Philosophy · Human Rights

Human Rights across the centuries

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