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Human Rights in the Twenty-First Century

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 October 2017

Jack Straw
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If you read certain newspapers you might be forgiven for thinking that human rights were an alien imposition foisted upon us by ‘the other’. It is a misconception that has regrettably taken root. A central theme of my lecture this evening is to explode this myth, and to demonstrate how far from being some ‘European’ imposition, Britain has been at the forefront of the political and legal development of human rights across Europe and across the world.

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Cambridge Yearbook of European Legal Studies , Volume 10 , 2008 , pp. 449 - 460
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Copyright © Centre for European Legal Studies, Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge 2008

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