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The Impact of technology on human rights : global case-studies, studies on the affirmative use of science and technology for the furtherance of human rights, commissioned as a special project by the United Nations University, following a reference to the University by the United Nations Human Rights Commission /

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: United Nations University
Other Authors: Weeramantry, C. G.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Tokyo : United Nations University Press, [1993]
Subjects:
Human rights > Case studies.
Technology > Social aspects.
Science > Social aspects.
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Technological impacts on human rights: models of development, science and technology, and human rights / Jan Berting
  • 2. Democracy, human rights, and the impact of scientific and technological development in Venezuela / Edgardo Lander
  • 3. Technology and human rights: critical implications for Thailand / Vitit Muntarbhorn
  • 4. Human rights and technological development: Eastern Europe and Poland / Pawel Bozyk
  • 5. The impact of modern science and technology on human rights in Ethiopia / Tewolde Berhan Gebre Egziabher, assisted by Yoseph Gebre Egziabher and Sue Edwards
  • 6. Western European case-study: the impact of advanced methods of medical treatment on human rights / Aart Hendriks and Manfred Nowak
  • 7. Conclusions / C.G. Weeramantry.