The Essentials of Human Rights

by Smith, Rhona K. M.; van den Anker, Christien

• ISBN13: 9780340815748
• ISBN10: 0340815744
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-02-16
• Publisher: Hodder Education Publishers

Summary

The Essentials of Human Rights is an easy-to-use, accessible introduction to the human rights debate. It covers the history of human rights, the arguments over their justification and uses examples of specific rights and freedoms to assess the current situation, including international legalsystems and organisations like the UN, and prospects for the future. More than 100 entries are arranged in an A-Z structure for easy reference and cover general categories of rights (including civil, political, cultural, women's, children's and migrants' rights) as well as specific issues, such asslavery, genocide, free speech, capital punishment and asylum. The contributors are drawn from a wide range of international and disciplinary backgrounds, making this book an outstanding resource for anyone interested in human rights. This vital reference has a Foreword by Mary Robinson.

Table of Contents

Preface	xi
Foreword	xiii
Mary Robinson
Biographies	xv
The historical roots of human rights
The historical roots of human rights before the Second World War	151	(194)
Michael Freeman
The United Nations since the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948	345
Peter R. Baehr
Traditional values supporting human rights
Ubuntu and human rights	341
Tim Murithi
Buddhism and human rights	25	(30)
Stephen Chan
Confucianism and human rights	55	(152)
Joseph Chan
Islam and human rights	207	(4)
Katerina Dalacoura
Jewish tradition and human rights	211	(142)
Awraham Soetendorp
Theories and critiques of human rights
Universalism	353
Michael Goodhart
Pluralist universalism and human rights	284
Bhikhu Parekh
Indivisibility of human rights	178	(178)
Manfred Nowak
Utilitarianism and human rights	356
Iain Law
The Marxist critique of human rights	248
J. Angelo Corlett
Feminist critiques of human rights	132
Ratna Kapur
Critical race feminism and human rights	74
Adrien Katherine Wing
Autonomy and human rights	20	(64)
Sumi Madhok
Democracy and human rights	84
Carol C. Gould
The capability approach and human rights	31	(238)
Emma Dowling
Needs and human rights	269	(17)
Des Gasper
Poverty and human rights	286	(36)
Thomas Pogge
Social movements and human rights	322
Neil Stammers
Global civil society and human rights	143
Saskia Sassen
Capitalism and human rights	34	(195)
Ulrich Duchrow
Libertarianism and human rights	229
Hillel Steiner
Equality and human rights	108	(240)
John Baker
The institutional framework for human rights
The United Nations system of human rights protection	348
Rhona K.M. Smith
The reform of the UN	300	(42)
Francesco Grillo
Simona Milio
Claire O'Brien
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights	342
Kevin Boyle
The Human Rights Committee	170	(34)
Martin Scheinin
The International Labour Organisation	204	(103)
Lee Swepston
Regional systems: an overview	307
Rhona K.M. Smith
The European Court of Human Rights	115
Giovanni Bonello
The Council of Europe	69	(210)
Kevin Kerrigan
The Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe	279
Bill Bowring
The Commonwealth and human rights	53	(134)
Richard Bourne
The inter-American human rights system	187
Dinah L. Shelton
The Inter-American Commission	180	(5)
Christina M. Cerna
The Inter-American Court of Human Rights	185
Jo M. Pasqualucci
The African Court and Commission	6	(266)
Rachel Murray
New Partnership for Africa's Development and human rights	272
Tim Murithi
The Asian regional human rights system	16	(180)
Joshua Castellino
The International Criminal Court	196	(140)
Solange Mouthaan
Legal measures and instruments
Treaty-based law	336
Rhona K.M. Smith
Customary international law	79	(2)
Rhona K.M. Smith
Customary law in the South Pacific	81	(270)
Miranda Forsyth
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights	351
Hurst Hannum
The International Covenants on Civil and Political Rights and on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights	193
Manfred Nowak
The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women	58	(3)
Feride Acar
The International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination	61	(3)
David Keane
The Convention on the Rights of the Child	64	(194)
Marilia Sardenberg
The Migrant Workers' Convention	258
Mike Kaye
The European Convention on Human Rights	113	(7)
Marie-Benedicte Dembour
The European Union Charter of Fundamental Rights	120
Jeremy McBride
The European Social Charter	118
Jane Wright
The African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights	3	(6)
Christof Heyns
The American Convention	9	(200)
Scott Davidson
The Islamic Declaration	209
Ann Elisabeth Mayer
The Commonwealth of Independent States Convention on human rights and fundamental freedoms	48	(271)
Ivan Manokha
Rights and freedoms
Freedom from slavery	319
David Ould
The right to life: the death penalty	239	(3)
William A. Schabas
The right to life: euthanasia	242
Sheila A.M. McLean
The right to life: assisted suicide	237
Sheila A.M. McLean
The right to life: abortion	234
Heather Widdows
Freedom from genocide	140
William A. Schabas
Freedom of expression	127	(205)
Andrew Puddephatt
Freedom from torture	332	(31)
Nigel Rodley
The right to vote and democracy	363
Niraja Gopal Jayal
The right to marriage and a family	245
Rebecca Probert
The right to liberty	231
Shami Chakrabarti
Kathryn Kenny
The right to education	105	(30)
Duncan Wilson
The right to food and clean water	135	(13)
Jean Ziegler
Sally-Anne Way
Christopher Golay
The right to health	148	(6)
Sirkku K. Hellsten
The right to adequate housing	154
Miloon Kothari
The right to development	91	(124)
Rebecca Shah
Labour rights	215
Michael Urminsky
The right to a fair trial	130	(159)
David Weissbrodt
The right to privacy	289	(20)
Simon Davies
Freedom of religion and belief	309
Nazila Ghanea
Freedom of association	18	(79)
Jeremy McBride
Freedom from discrimination	97	(125)
Dianne Otto
The right to leave and return	222	(81)
Francois Crepeau
Delphine Nakache
Refugee law	303	(21)
Rebecca M. M. Wallace
Social rights	324
Asbjorn Eide
Cultural rights	77	(23)
Jeremie Gilbert
Economic rights	100	(195)
Philippe Texier
The right to property: land rights restitution	295
Vinodh Jaichand
The right to property: property in the body	291	(2)
Shanti Williamson
The right to property: intellectual property rights	293
Christopher May
Group rights	146	(137)
Peter Jones
The right to peace	283	(84)
Edel Hughes
Kathleen Cavanaugh
Women's rights	367
Rebecca J. Cook
Simone Cusack
Children's rights	42	(218)
Rhona K.M. Smith
Minority rights	260
Joshua Castellino
Language rights	216
Fernand de Varennes
Indigenous peoples' rights	175	(142)
Jeremie Gilbert
The right to self-determination	317
Jeremie Gilbert
Environmental rights and justice	122	(141)
Chris McWilliams
Jonathan Walton
Monitoring and enforcing human rights
Monitoring and enforcing human rights	263
Mario Gomez
Derogations and reservations	86	(189)
Shiyan Sun
The role of NGOs in human rights protection	275
Oliver Richmond
The role of lawyers in promoting human rights	224	(42)
David Hallmark
National institutions on human rights	266
Rhona K.M. Smith
Business and human rights	27	(46)
Sorcha Macleod
Creative problem solving	73	(86)
James Cooper
Janeen Kerper
Human rights education	159	(3)
Upendra Baxi
Human rights and globalising memory culture	162	(176)
Andreas Huyssen
Truth commissions	338
Tristan Anne Borer
Evidence of human rights violations	125	(125)
Louise
Herbert F. Spirer
Media and human rights	250	(65)
Thomas R. Lansner
Sanctions and human rights	315
Eric Herring
Reparations for human rights violations	312
Fernne Brennan
Ethical foreign policy and human rights	110	(54)
Tim Dunne
Humanitarian intervention	164	(3)
Simon Chesterman
Humanitarian law and criminal law
Humanitarian law and human rights in armed conflict	167
Jelena Pejic
Human rights between war and peace	157	(44)
Clementine Olivier
International criminal law and the regional tribunals	201	(159)
Claire De Than
Violence against women in war time	360
Claire De Than
The reality of human rights in different regions of the world
Latin America	218
Mario Novelli
Berenice Celeyta
Central Asia	39	(11)
Galina Yemelianova
Commonwealth of Independent States	50
Bill Bowring
Central and Eastern Europe	37
Andras Miklos
Africa	1	(12)
John Otieno Ouko
Asia	13	(31)
Tae-Ung Baik
China	44	(211)
Lisa Stearns
The Middle East	255	(21)
Yousry Moustafa
North America	276
Colin Samson
The future of human rights
Animal rights	11	(315)
Deborah Rook
Sustainable development	326
David Silbergh
Liang Chen
Rubina Greenwood
The rights of future generations	138
Tim Mulgan
Disability and human rights law	93	(133)
Fernne Brennan
Lesbian and gay rights	226
Nicholas Bamforth
Cosmopolitanism and human rights	67	(123)
Christien van den Anker
International citizenship and human rights	190	(140)
Tony Evans
Terrorism and human rights	330
Conor Gearty
Bioethics and human rights	23	(335)
Doris Schroeder
Violence against women: domestic violence	358
Audrey Guichon
Human security and human rights	172
Thanh-Dam Truong
Development cooperation and human rights: African Caribbean Pacific-European Union relations	89	(14)
Karin Arts
The future of economic, social and cultural rights	103	(195)
Virginia Bras Gomes
The future of the struggle against racism	298
Anneliese Baldaccini
The future of the International Criminal Court	198	(55)
Andrew Williams
Solange Mouthaan
Phil Shiner
Mental disability and international human rights	253	(117)
Peter Bartlett
Afterword Globalisation with a human face	370	(5)
Jan Kavan
Index	375