Shifting grounds for challenging the authority of international human rights law: Religion as a malleable and politicized pretext for governmental noncompliance with human rights

Human Rights with Modesty: The Problem of Universalism

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 349-374

  Mayer, Ann Elizabeth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

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