Human rights and the unborn child
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| Language: | English |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Martinus Nijhoff Publishers,
2009.
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| Online Access: | http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10349097 |
Table of 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.