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Human rights in the world community : issues and action

Specifically designed for educational use by international relations, law, and political and social science classes, this book treats the full range of human rights issues, including implementation problems and processes involving international, national, and nongovernmental action
Print Book, English, ©2006
University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, ©2006
xviii, 543 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
9780812219487, 0812219481
68800429
Human rights : concept and content / Burns H. Weston
Capabilities, human rights, and the universal declaration / Martha C. Nussbaum
The universality of human rights in a multicultured world / Burns H. Weston
The second great transformation : human rights leap-frogging in the era of globalization / Rhoda Howard-Hassmann
Genocide / Diane Orentlicher
Torture and the future / Lisa Hajjar
Civil rights / Richard B. Lillich
Human rights and crime / Rachel Neild
First principles of racial equality / Paul Gordon Lauren
Protecting the rights of women / Eva Brems
The international and national protection of refugees / Maryellen Fullerton
Indigenous peoples' rights to self-determination and territoriality / Maivân Clech Lâm
Economic, social, and cultural rights as human rights / Asbjørn Eide
Worker rights are human rights / Lee Swepston
Food is a human right / George Kent
The right to health : key objectives, themes, and interventions / Paul Hunt
The right to education and human rights education / Richard Pierre Claude
The right to take part in cultural life / Stephen A. Hansen
The right of self-determination in the twenty-first century / Hurst Hannum
The right to development / Arjun Sengupta
Is the human right to environment recognized under international law? / Luis E. Rodriguez-Rivera
Peace : a "sacred right" / Douglas Roche
Human rights : prescription and enforcement / Burns H. Weston
How is international human rights law enforced? / Harold Hongju Koh
Making the human rights treaties work / Anne F. Bayefsky
The United Nations and human rights / Stephen P. Marks
The promise of regional human rights systems / Dinah Shelton
No exceptions? The United States pick-and-choose approach to human rights / Michael Ignatieff
Civil remedies for gross human rights violations / Michael Ratner
Humanitarian intervention : imperatives and problematics / Richard Falk
What do human rights NGOs do? / Richard Pierre Claude
Multinational corporations and the ethics of global responsibility / Mahmood Monshipouri, Claude E. Welch, Jr., Evan T. Kennedy
The human right to revolution / Jordan J. Paust