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Why a Human Rights Perspective?

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Nicholas Burnett, former Assistant Director-General for Education at UNESCO, describes the global economic devastation that swept across the world in recent years as the worst since the Great Depression. Burnett advises, however, that we should be cautious in drawing parallels to the depression of the 1930’s.

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Wilson-Keenan, JA. (2015). Why a Human Rights Perspective?. In: From Small Places. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-136-6_1

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