Population control as a human right: international law and the global quest to curb overpopulation
Auteur :
Birke, Roman
Éditeur :
Cambridge University Press
ISBN :
9781009601160
Date de publication :
31 oct. 2025
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
Concerns about global overpopulation spread rapidly in the 1940s and still persist today. Roman Birke demonstrates the conflicts this created between the rights of the community and the rights of the individual, and how human rights became central to the population debate at both a domestic and international level.