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Editorial

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 March 2005

DORIS SCHROEDER
DORIS SCHROEDER
Affiliation:
Doris Schroeder, Ph.D., is Reader in Ethics at the Centre for Professional Ethics at the University of Central Lancashire, United Kingdom. Her main research areas include international justice and human rights
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Abstract

“Human rights” is a global topic. As soon as one agrees that a right is a human right, one cannot restrict it to certain groups. People have human rights by virtue of their humanity, not by virtue of their nationality, their status, their gender, their ethnicity, and so forth. This is why the topic is one of the most exciting, but also one of the most contentious discussed in the humanities and the social sciences. It is a topic that suggests numerous questions in three main areas: concept, content, and enforcement.

Type
HEALTH AND HUMAN RIGHTS
Information
Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics , Volume 14 , Issue 2 , April 2005 , pp. 218 - 220
Copyright
© 2005 Cambridge University Press

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