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Author Onazi, Oche, author.

Title Human rights from community : a rights-based approach to development / Oche Onazi.

Publication Info. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2013]
©2013.

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 242 pages).
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Series Studies in global justice and human rights
Studies in global justice and human rights.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-232) and index.
Contents Human rights and community: unlocking the deadlock -- Are human rights enough? -- Good governance as metaphor for development -- Good governance and the marketisation of human rights -- The good governance of electricty: Nigeria as case study -- Reclaiming human rights: a theory of community -- Electricty for community by community: the co-operative model -- Conclusion: imaging a post-state human rights discourse.
Summary Oche Onazi uses Nigeria as a case study to show how the idea of community is a better alternative to state and market-based approaches to human rights, which lead to poverty, exclusion and a lack of participation.
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Subject Human rights -- Nigeria -- Case studies.
Human rights.
Nigeria.
Community development -- Nigeria -- Case studies.
Community development.
Genre/Form Case studies.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Subject Human rights.
Genre/Form Case studies.
Other Form: Print version: Onazi, Oche. Human rights from community. Edinburgh : Ediniburgh University Press, [2013] 9780748654673 (DLC) 2013363720 (OCoLC)823896759
ISBN 1299735754 (electronic book)
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