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9 Hum. Rts. Q. 120 (1987)
Human Rights: From Rhetoric to Reality

handle is hein.journals/hurq9 and id is 132 raw text is: HUMAN RIGHTS QUARTERLY To read this report is to experience the anxiety of parenthood as well as the terror of childhood in a country at war with its own children. HUMAN RIGHTS: FROM RHETO- RIC TO REALITY, edited by Tom Campbell, et al., (Oxford, U.K.: Basil Blackwell Ltd., 1986), 262 pp., $19.95 paperback. The above volume is a collection of essays on aspects of human rights edited by faculty from the University of Glasgow School of Law. While the vol- ume contains interesting discussions of general principles of human rights, such as analytical techniques which may be useful in incorporating human rights into the legal process, most readers will be unwilling to spend the time attempt- ing to translate the unnecessarily recon- dite prose into understandable English. This is unfortunate because the volume also contains some worthwhile essays on specific subjects including women's rights, the right to consent to medical treatment, and the right to trade union membership. The essay on women's rights, for example, focuses on those rights which arise from biological and societal differences between men and women. Discussed in depth are the right to bear and nurture children, and the right to economic and political rec- ognition for women's role in the family structure. The essay concludes that the Western emphasis on removing discrim- ination may ultimately contribute to the inadequate consideration of women's rights. The volume, in its entirety, is a valu- able resource for the study of applied human rights. The reader, however, is required to commit an inordinate amount of time to comprehending the volume's abstruse language. V/ol. 9

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