Human Rights in the World Community

by Claude, Richard Pierre; Weston, Burns H.; Boyles, Gavin H. (CON); Downs, Jessica L. (CON)

• ISBN13: 9780812219487
• ISBN10: 0812219481
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-09-06
• Publisher: Univ of Pennsylvania Pr

Summary

This unique textbook seeks to promote students' critical and analytical skills and to provide a teacher-friendly resource featuring: in-depth scholarly introductions to each chapter, multiple questions for discussion and reflection, and an extensive bibliography and annotated filmography.

Author Biography

Richard Pierre Claude is Professor Emeritus of Government and Politics at the University of Maryland, College Park. He is founding editor of Human Rights Quarterly and author of many books, including Science in the Service of Human Rights, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press. Burns H. Weston is Bessie Dutton Murray Distinguished Professor of Law Emeritus and Senior Scholar, Center for Human Rights, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, and Vermont Law School Visiting Distinguished Professor of International Law and Policy.

Table of Contents

International human rights : issues overviews	p. 3
Human rights : concept and content	p. 17
Capabilities, human rights, and the universal declaration	p. 27
The universality of human rights in a multicultured world	p. 39
The second great transformation : human rights leap-frogging in the era of globalization	p. 53
Basic decencies and participatory rights	p. 65
Genocide	p. 77
Torture and the future	p. 82
Civil rights	p. 93
Human rights and crime	p. 104
First principles of racial equality	p. 108
Protecting the rights of women	p. 120
The international and national protection of refugees	p. 136
Indigenous peoples' rights to self-determination and territoriality	p. 148
Basic human needs as security rights	p. 161
Economic, social, and cultural rights as human rights	p. 170
Worker rights are human rights	p. 180
Food is a human right	p. 191
The right to health : key objectives, themes, and interventions	p. 201
The right to education and human rights education	p. 211
The right to take part in cultural life	p. 223
Community or solidarity rights - group rights	p. 235
The right of self-determination in the twenty-first century	p. 242
The right to development	p. 249
Is the human right to environment recognized under international law?	p. 261
Peace : a "sacred right"	p. 274
International human rights : action overviews	p. 287
Human rights : prescription and enforcement	p. 294
How is international human rights law enforced?	p. 305
Making the human rights treaties work	p. 315
International approaches to human rights implementation	p. 325
The United Nations and human rights	p. 341
The promise of regional human rights systems	p. 355
National approaches to human rights implementation	p. 371
No exceptions? The United States pick-and-choose approach to human rights	p. 383
Civil remedies for gross human rights violations	p. 390
Humanitarian intervention : imperatives and problematics	p. 401
Private sector approaches to human rights implementation	p. 413
What do human rights NGOs do?	p. 424
Multinational corporations and the ethics of global responsibility	p. 434
The human right to revolution	p. 445
Postscript : human rights and humane governance	p. 455
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