Human Rights in the World Community

by Claude, Richard Pierre; Weston, Burns H.

• ISBN13: 9780812213966
• ISBN10: 0812213963
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1992-10-01
• Publisher: Univ of Pennsylvania Pr

Summary

Specifically designed for educational use by international relations, law, and political and social science classes,Human Rights in the World Communitytreats the full range of human rights issues, including implementation problems and processes involving international, national, and nongovernmental action.

Table of Contents

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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