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Human rights and the unborn child [electronic resource] / by Rita Joseph.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Leiden ; Boston : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2009.Description: xviii, 347 pSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 341.48572 22
LOC classification:
  • K642 .J67 2009
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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.
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Ebook TUS: Midlands, Main Library Athlone Online eBook (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available

Includes bibliographical references (p. [331]-338) and index.

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.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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