| Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 347 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-338) and index. |
| Contents |
UDHR recognition of the child before birth : analysis of the texts -- UDHR recognition of the child before birth : the historical context -- Fundamentals of the universal declaration's human rights protection -- The inaugural human right : to be born free and equal -- What is "appropriate" legal protection before as well as after birth? -- The right to life and to the necessities of life -- Decriminalization : a treaty interpretation manifestly unreasonable -- CRC legislative history and the child before birth -- Selective abortion on grounds of disability -- European Convention (1950) and the unborn child -- American Convention on Human Rights : " ... in general, from the moment of conception" -- Reclaiming rights of the African child at risk of abortion -- Selective abortion : an act of violence and discrimination on grounds of sex -- Children's rights : " ... without any exceptions whatsoever" -- Ideologies must conform to human rights, not human rights to ideologies. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Unborn children (Law)
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Unborn children (Law) |
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Right to life.
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Right to life. |
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Abortion -- Law and legislation.
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Abortion -- Law and legislation. |
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Human rights.
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Human rights. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Subject |
Human rights. |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Joseph, Rita. Human rights and the unborn child. Leiden ; Boston : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2009 9789004175600 (DLC) 2009021220 (OCoLC)344037049 |
| ISBN |
9789047429043 (electronic book) |
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9047429044 (electronic book) |
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9789004175600 (cloth) |
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9004175601 (cloth) |
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1282401203 |
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9781282401204 |
| Standard No. |
10.1163/ej.9789004175600.i-350 |
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