The Global Struggle for Human Rights Universal Principles in World Politics

by DeLaet, Debra L.

• ISBN13: 9780534635725
• ISBN10: 0534635725
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-02-24
• Publisher: Cengage Learning

Summary

Explore the tension between state sovereignty and human rights, genocide, economic rights, and various concepts of justice as they relate to the promotion of fundamental human rights with THE GLOBAL STRUGGLE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS: UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLES IN WORLD POLITICS. This textbook covers human rights in relation to gender equity, feminist perspectives, and sexual orientation and suggests a universal perspective on human rights sensitive to cultural differences and diversity among and within nations. The text also explores human rights law and the question of whether human rights are universal.

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION	1	(9)
Why Study Human Rights?	1	(2)
State Sovereignty and Human Rights	3	(1)
Human Rights at the Dawn of the Twenty-First Century: The Gap between Rhetoric and Reality	4	(4)
Organization of the Book	8	(2)
PART I: HUMAN RIGHTS IN THEORY AND LAW
1 THE CONTESTED MEANING OF HUMAN RIGHTS	10	(15)
The Political Nature of Human Rights	10	(1)
Defining the Concept of Human Rights	11	(4)
The Philosophical Origins and Sources of Human Rights	15	(4)
Defining and Categorizing Human Rights in Practice	19	(4)
Conclusions	23	(1)
Discussion Questions	24	(1)
Web Resources	24	(1)
2 THE DEVELOPMENT OF INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS LAW	25	(19)
Does International Human Rights Law Matter?	25	(1)
The Historical Foundations of International Human Rights Law	26	(2)
The United Nations Core of International Human Rights Law	28	(6)
The Distinction between Human Rights Law and Humanitarian Law	34	(4)
Feminist Critiques of International Human Rights Law	38	(2)
Sexual Orientation Discrimination and International Human Rights Law	40	(1)
Conclusions	41	(1)
Discussion Questions	42	(1)
Web Resources	43	(1)
3 ARE HUMAN RIGHTS UNIVERSAL?	44	(18)
Defining Universalism and Relativism	44	(2)
Are Human Rights a Western Construct?	46	(4)
Feminist Perspectives on Universalism and Relativism	50	(2)
Case Study: Female Genital Mutilation or Female Circumcision?	52	(3)
Case Study: Male Genital Mutilation or Male Circumcision?	55	(4)
Conclusions	59	(1)
Discussion Questions	60	(2)
PART II: HUMAN RIGHTS IN PRACTICE
4 CIVIL AND POLITICAL RIGHTS IN A WORLD OF SOVEREIGN STATES	62	(40)
Civil and Political Rights and State Sovereignty in Tension	62	(3)
Case Study: National Security and Terrorism	65	(6)
Case Study: Freedom of Movement, Civil Rights, and Sovereignty	71	(4)
Conclusions	75	(1)
Discussion Questions	76	(1)
Web Resources	77	(1)
5 COLLECTIVE RIGHTS IN A WORLD OF SOVEREIGN STATES	78	(24)
Human Rights as Collective Rights	78	(2)
Collective Rights and Individual Rights	80	(1)
Case Study: Self-Determination	81	(12)
Case Study: Genocide	93	(5)
Conclusions	98	(1)
Discussion Questions	99	(1)
Web Resources	100	(2)
6 ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL RIGHTS IN WORLD OF SOVEREIGN STATES	102	(17)
Economic and Social Rights as Human Rights	102	(1)
Economic and Social Rights and State Sovereignty in Tension	103	(3)
The Relationship between Economic and Social Rights and Civil and Political Rights	106	(2)
Case Study: Human Development and Poverty	108	(3)
Case Study: Health and Human Rights	111	(5)
Conclusions	116	(1)
Discussion Questions	117	(1)
Web Resources	118	(1)
7 SEXUAL EQUALITY AND HUMAN RIGHTS	119	(16)
Sexual Equality as a Human Right	119	(2)
Women and Sexual Minorities: Special Rights or Human Rights?	121	(3)
Case Study: Violence against Women	124	(3)
Case Study: Sex-Specific Abuses of Human Rights during War	127	(2)
Case Study: Sexual Orientation Discrimination	129	(3)
Conclusions	132	(1)
Discussion Questions	133	(1)
Web Resources	134	(1)
PART III: HUMAN RIGHTS AND THE QUEST FOR JUSTICE
8 PROMOTING HUMAN RIGHTS FROM THE TOP DOWN	135	(24)
Implementing Human Rights through International Organizations and States	135	(1)
The United Nations Human Rights System	136	(6)
Regional Human Rights Systems	142	(4)
States, Foreign Policy, and Human Rights	146	(1)
Case Study: U.S. Foreign Policy and American Exceptionalism	147	(3)
Humanitarian Intervention	150	(3)
Case Study: Humanitarian Intervention in Kosovo	153	(2)
Conclusions	155	(2)
Discussion Questions	157	(1)
Web Resources	158	(1)
9 PUNITIVE JUSTICE AND HUMAN RIGHTS	159	(27)
Punitive Justice as a Response to Human Rights Abuses	159	(1)
Trials and Punitive Justice	160	(2)
Trials In Historical Perspective: The Development of Ad Hoc Tribunals	162	(2)
Ad Hoc Tribunals after World War II: Nuremberg and Tokyo	164	(3)
The International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia	167	(3)
The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda	170	(3)
The International Criminal Court	173	(3)
Prosecuting International Crimes in Domestic Courts	176	(5)
Conclusions	181	(4)
Discussion Questions	185	(1)
Web Resources	185	(1)
10 RESTORATIVE JUSTICE AND HUMAN RIGHTS	186	(18)
Restorative Justice as a Response to Human Rights Abuses	186	(2)
Truth Commissions	188	(5)
Reparations	193	(5)
Apologies	198	(3)
Conclusions	201	(1)
Discussion Questions	202	(1)
Web Resources	203	(1)
11 PROMOTING HUMAN RIGHTS FROM THE BOTTOM UP	204	(15)
Mobilizing Support for Human Rights in a World of Sovereign States	204	(2)
Non-State Actors and the Global Struggle for Human Rights	206	(4)
Case Study: Transnational Corporations and Human Rights	210	(3)
Case Study: Health and Human Rights Advocacy	213	(3)
Conclusions	216	(1)
Discussion Questions	217	(1)
Web Resources	218	(1)
CONCLUSIONS	219	(4)
Notes	223	(14)
Index	237