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How human rights have come to dominate world politics, from Kosovo to East Timor. Hailed by the Observer as "a book to stop another Holocaust," Crimes Against Humanity is the first work to weave together history, philosophy, international law, and politics into a comprehensive and... read more
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Any system of law - including the first written Hammurabi code, several thousand years before Christ - inferentially confers 'rights' on the citizens to whom it applies, at least in the negative and residual sense of entitling them to behave in any manner which it does not specifically prohibit.
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- Geoffrey Robertson QC (Author)
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