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Human Rights – A Very Short Introduction, by Andrew Clapham, will enable readers understand the complexities and controversies behind the relevant issues related to human rights. Summary of the Book This title deliberates on an international perspective of human rights, and concentrates on highly topical issues like privacy, health and discrimination, torture, and arbitrary detention. Considering the philosophical justification for human rights, their historical origins and how their creation and evolution in law took place, Andrew Clapham delicately describes what our human rights actually are, what they might be, and where the human rights movement is heading. About Andrew Clapham Andrew Clapham was the first Director of the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights. He is associated with the Graduate Institute of International and Developmental Studies, Geneva, as the Professor of Public International Law, and teaches international human rights as well. He is an Associate Member of Matrix Chambers. He has also authored and edited books like: Brierly's Law of Nations, Human Rights and Non-State Actors, and The Oxford Handbook of International Law in Armed Conflict. About Oxford University Press Oxford University Press is a renowned publishing house that develops and publishes high quality textbooks, scholarly works, and academic books for school courses, bilingual dictionaries and also digital materials for both learning and teaching. It is a division of the University of Oxford. The first book was locally published in the year 1912. Some of the books published under their banner are India’s Ancient Past, Atkins’ Physical Chemistry, Companion to Politics in India, Sociology: Themes and Perspectives, and Common Mistakes at IELTS Advanced …and How to Avoid Them.