Using rights to measure wrongs: A case study of method and moral in the work of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission

Human Rights in Global Perspective: Anthropological Studies of Rights, Claims and Entitlements

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 163-182

  Ross, Fiona C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

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EID: 29544443810     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203506271     Document Type: Chapter

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