Human Rights: The Case for the Defence

In this urgent, powerful book, Shami Chakrabarti, demonstrates why human rights matter and why we need to secure further rights to deal with challenges of the present and future. Our human rights are endangered. After the devastation of World War Two the international community united to enshrine fundamental rights to refuge, health, education and living standards. They protected privacy, fair trials and free speech and outlawed torture, slavery and discrimination. Their goal was greater global justice, equality and peace. That settlement is now under attack from opponents on both left and right and populist and authoritarian movements worldwide. Simultaneously, we are threatened by war, inequality, new tech and climate catastrophe, crises human rights can help us address.

• | Author: Shami Chakrabarti
• | Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
• | Publication Date: May 01, 2025
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• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-13: 9781802060911
• | ISBN-10: 180206091X