Book Review: Human Rights and Global Diversity: Basic Ethics in Action

Kristina Andrews

doi:10.46303/jcsr.01.01.6

Abstract

This professional book review provides a critique of R. P. Churchill's (2006) book entitled Human Rights and Global Diversity: Basic Ethics in Action. His book is divided into three chapters: 1. Reasoning about Human Rights, 2. Debating the Universality of Human Rights, and 3. Human Rights and Cross Cultural Negotiations. Churchill presented the concepts and constructs of human rights, the universality of human rights and an argument for human rights. Churchill’s overarching claim for human rights was that they are the same for all human beings regardless where they reside. In addition to presenting the arguments for universal human rights he presented the oppositional constructs by the integration of the voices of notable theorists.

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Human Rights and Global Diversity: Basic Ethics in Action (Churchill, 2006) would be recommended for teachers and administrators working within ethnically and culturally diverse schools around the world
It is critical for educational stakeholders to, become informed on the basic human rights that all individuals are entitled to, but to become active in ensuring that students and their families have access to these rights
Churchill’s (2006) book Human Rights and Global Diversity: Basic Ethics in Action is divided into three chapters: 1. Reasoning about Human Rights, 2

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Human Rights and Global Diversity: Basic Ethics in Action (Churchill, 2006) would be recommended for teachers and administrators working within ethnically and culturally diverse schools around the world. In addition to an extensive composition of the argument for universal human rights, Churchill presented the counter-arguments to the universality of human rights, as well as the challenges faced by those who recognize and actively support socially just and equitable treatment for all persons in all cultures. Churchill’s (2006) book Human Rights and Global Diversity: Basic Ethics in Action is divided into three chapters: 1.

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