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Author:   Henry J. Steiner ,  Philip Alston ,  Ryan Goodman
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Edition:   3rd Revised edition
Dimensions:   Width: 17.00cm , Height: 5.50cm , Length: 24.00cm
Weight:   1.974kg
ISBN:  

9780199279425

ISBN 10:   019927942
Pages:   1536
Publication Date:   13 September 2007
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   Awaiting stock  

Table of Contents

PART A INTRODUCTORY NOTIONS AND BACKGROUND TO INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS MOVEMENT; 1. Human rights concepts and discourse; 2. Background to and Postwar Creation of the Human Rights Movement; PART B NORMATIVE FOUNDATION OF INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS; 3. Civil and political rights; 4. Economic and social rights; 5. National security, terrorism, and derogations of human rights; PART C RIGHTS, DUTIES AND UNIVERSALISM; 6. Rights or duties as primary organizing concepts; 7. Conflicts in culture, tradition and practices; PART D INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS INSTITUTIONS; 8. International institutions and challenges to notions of sovereignty; 9. The UN human rights system; 10. Treaty organs: the ICCPR human rights committee; 11. Regional arrangements; PART E STATES AS PROTECTORS AND ENFORCERS OF HUMAN RIGHTS; 12. Vertical interpretation: human rights treaties within states' legal and political orders; 13. Horizontal interpretation: transnational influence and enforcement of human rights; PART F CURRENT TOPICS; 14. Massive human rights tragedies: prosecutions and truth commissions; 15. Autonomy regimes; 16. Non-state actors and human rights; 17. Human rights and development, finance and trade

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An indispensable tool for training the next generation of human rights practitioners, advocates, and scholars. --Theodor Meron, New York University School of Law Exposes the sharp contradictions and dilemmas in the human rights movement, without concessions to political correctness or rushing to answers . . . today's debates are openly tackled. The book will long remain the yardstick by which others must be judged. --Makau wa Mutua, State University of NewYork at Buffalo

<br> An indispensable tool for training the next generation of human rights practitioners, advocates, and scholars. --Theodor Meron, New York University School of Law<br> Exposes the sharp contradictions and dilemmas in the human rights movement, without concessions to political correctness or rushing to answers . . . today's debates are openly tackled. The book will long remain the yardstick by which others must be judged. --Makau wa Mutua, State University of New York at Buffalo<br>

An indispensable tool for training the next generation of human rights practitioners, advocates, and scholars. --Theodor Meron, New York University School of Law<br> Exposes the sharp contradictions and dilemmas in the human rights movement, without concessions to political correctness or rushing to answers . . . today's debates are openly tackled. The book will long remain the yardstick by which others must be judged. --Makau wa Mutua, State University of New York at Buffalo<br>

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