Legal empowerment of the poor – a strategy for social change?

Human Rights and Development in the New Millennium: Towards a Theory of Change

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 90-106

  Andreassen, Bård A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

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EID: 84918927833     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203796405     Document Type: Chapter

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