title: Human rights in the world: An introduction to the study of the international protection of human rights
author:  A.H. Robertson 
description: <br />The late A.H. Robertson was Director of Human Rights, Council of Europe<br /> <br />J. G. Merrills is Professor of Public International Law at the University of Sheffield<br />
zlib_text: Actualizing Human Rights
  This book argues that ultimately human rights can be actualized, in two senses. 
  By answering important challenges to them, the real-world relevance of human 
  rights can be brought out; and people worldwide can be motivated as needed for 
  realizing human rights. 
  Taking a perspective from moral and political philosophy, the book focuses 
  on two challenges to human rights that have until now received little attention, 
  but that need to be addressed if human rights are to remain plausible as a global 
  ideal. First, the challenge of global inequality: how, if at all, can one be sincerely 
  committed to human rights in a structurally greatly unequal world that produces 
  widespread inequalities of human rights protection? Second, the challenge of 
  future people: how to adequately include future people in human rights and how 
  to set adequate priorities between the present and the future, especially in times 
  of climate change? The book also asks whether people worldw