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If Human Rights Mattered
Author(s) -
Coates Rodney D.
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
sociological forum
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.937
H-Index - 61
eISSN - 1573-7861
pISSN - 0884-8971
DOI - 10.1111/socf.12302
Subject(s) - human rights , sociology , rest (music) , law , political science , law and economics , medicine , cardiology
This article is a response to Judith Blau's ([Blau, Judith, 2016]) essay, “Human Rights: What the United States Might Learn from the Rest of the World and, Yes, from American Sociology.” Here, I argue that if human rights mattered, then liberty could be assured. And absent human rights, liberty is a sham.