International Human Rights in Context Law, Politics, Morals: Text and Materials

by Steiner, Henry J.; Alston, Philip

• ISBN13: 9780198254270
• ISBN10: 019825427X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1996-02-29
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

International Human Rights in Context presents diverse materials consisting of extensive authors' text and questions; sharply edited primary materials ranging from intergovernmental or NGO reports to treaties, resolutions and decisions; and excerpts from secondary readings in law and legal theory, as well as other pertinent fields such as international relations, moral and political theory, and anthropology. The book introduces students to those organizing concepts and topics of public international law that are vital to understanding human rights issues. It stresses throughout the relationships among human rights norms, processes and institutions, as well as relationships between international and internal orders. The topics include civil and political rights, economic and social rights, intergovernmental and non-governmental institutions, universal and regional regimes, human rights and foreign policy, democratization, women's rights, self determination and autonomy regimes, individual criminal responsibility, and development. The book's broad themes include universalism and cultural relativism, rights or duties as organizing conceptions, the relevance of the private-public distinction, and transformed conceptions of statehood and sovereignty.

Table of Contents

Introductory Notions

Global Snapshots

Historical Development And Normative Framework Of International Relations

International Law Concepts and Doctrinal Background Relevant to the Human Rights Movement

Evolution and Norms of the Universal Human Rights System

What Are Rights, Are They Everywhere, and Everywhere the Same?: Cultural Relativism

Economic and Social Rights

Human Rights Institutions And Processes

The Need for Institutions: Introductory Ideas

Intergovernmental Enforcement of Human Rights Norms: The UN System

The Role of Non-Governmental Organizations

Treaty Organs: The ICCPR Human Rights Committee en

Regional Arrangements

States As Protectors And Enforcers Of Human Rights

Interpenetration of International and National Systems: Internal Protection of Human Rights by States

Enforcement by States against Violator States

An Illustrative Study

Women's Rights

Current Topics

Self-Determination and Autonomy Regimes

International Crimes and Criminal Tribunals

Development and Human Rights

Annex On Documents

Annex On Citations

Annex On Bibliography

Index

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