Penguin Special: The Rights of Man

Penguin Special: The Rights of Man by H. G. Wells


ISBN
9780241976760
Published
Binding
Paperback
Pages
176
Dimensions
111 x 181 x 11mm

Penguin Specials are books of topical importance published within as short a time as possible from receipt of the manuscript. Some are reprints of famous books, brought up-to-date, in order to react to an urgent need.

H. G. Wells wrote The Rights of Man in 1940, partly in response to the ongoing war with Germany. The fearlessly progressive ideas he set out were instrumental in the creation of the UN's Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the EU's European Convention on Human Rights and the UK's Human Rights Act. When first published, this manifesto was an urgently topical reaction to a global miscarriage of justice. It was intended to stimulate debate and make a clear statement of mankind's immutable responsibilities to itself.

Seventy-five years have passed and once again we face a humanitarian crisis. In the UK our human rights are under threat in ways that they never have been before and overseas peoples are being displaced from their homelands in their millions. The international community must act decisively, cooperatively and fast.

With a new introduction by award-winning novelist and human rights campaigner Ali Smith, Penguin reissues one of the most important humanitarian texts of the twentieth century in the hope that it will remind our leaders - and one another - of the essential priorities and responsibilities of humankind.
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