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Preface | |
Acknowledgments | |
International Human Rights: Overviews | p. 1 |
Human Rights | p. 14 |
Theoretical Foundations of Human Rights | p. 31 |
International Human Rights and Cultural Relativism | p. 42 |
Issues | |
Basic Decencies and Participatory Rights | p. 57 |
The Sovereign Territorial State: The Right to Genocide | p. 69 |
Torture as Policy | p. 79 |
Civil Rights | p. 90 |
Race, Sex, and Religious Discrimination in International Law | p. 101 |
Refugees: A Never-Ending Story | p. 114 |
Human Rights on the Periphery: No Room in the Ark for the Yanomami? | p. 124 |
Basic Human Needs, Security Rights, and Humane Governance | p. 137 |
Human Rights in Liberal, Socialist, and Third World Perspective | p. 146 |
Realization of Social and Economic Rights and the Minimum Threshold Approach | p. 158 |
The Right of Development as a Human Right | p. 167 |
Self-Determination as a Human Right | p. 175 |
Planetary Rights | p. 187 |
Peace as a Human Right | p. 198 |
Action | |
International Approaches to Implementation | p. 215 |
The United Nations and Human Rights: More Than a Whimper, Less Than a Roar | p. 227 |
Regional Human Rights Regimes: A Comparison and Appraisal | p. 244 |
The Helsinki Process: Birth of a Human Rights System | p. 256 |
Strategies for the International Protection of Human Rights in the 1990s | p. 271 |
National Approaches to Implementation | p. 285 |
Human Rights and Foreign Policy | p. 296 |
Humanitarian Intervention and American Foreign Policy: Law Morality, and Politics | p. 307 |
Congress and Human Rights in U.S. Foreign Policy: The Fate of General Legislation | p. 320 |
The Case of Joelito Filartiga in the Courts | p. 328 |
The United States Commitment to International Human Rights | p. 340 |
Nongovernmental Organization, Corporate, and Individual Approaches to Implementation | p. 359 |
Human Rights Nongovernmental Organizations | p. 372 |
Scientists as Detectives: Investigating Human Rights | p. 384 |
Multinational Corporations and Human Rights | p. 392 |
"Looking and Thinking" About Human Rights and Revolution | p. 401 |
Appendix: Selected Documents | p. 413 |
United Nations Charter | p. 413 |
Universal Declaration of Human Rights | p. 419 |
International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights | p. 424 |
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights | p. 432 |
Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights | p. 446 |
Contributors | p. 449 |
Index | p. 451 |
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