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 worldwide can