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Rewriting the Past: The Global South in Human Rights History
Author(s) -
Steinorth Charlotte
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
global policy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.602
H-Index - 33
eISSN - 1758-5899
pISSN - 1758-5880
DOI - 10.1111/1758-5899.12727
Subject(s) - life expectancy , human rights , rewriting , order (exchange) , world history , political science , sociology , law , economics , demography , computer science , population , finance , programming language
The current age of global inequality, in which life expectancy is overwhelmingly determined by geography, doesnot bode well for the relationship between human rights and the Non‐Western world. While history does not provideany guidance on how to create a more just world order, it does show us that human rights are not a fixedconcept, frozen in time.