Human Rights and the Borders of Suffering

Argues for greater openness in the ways we approach human rights and international rights promotion, and in so doing brings some new understanding to old debates.

Anne Brown is a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Queensland where she is part of an interdisciplinary team working on emerging issues in conflict resolution

PrefaceThe Question of Human Rights1. Opening up conceptions of rights2. The contruction of human rights: dominant approaches3. The pursuit of groundsCase studies4. China - the Tiananmen Square massacre of 19895. East Timor6. The status of indigenous Australians7. ConclusionIndex