Realizing Human Rights : Moving from Inspiration to Impact

by Power, Samantha; Allison, Graham

• ISBN13: 9780312234942
• ISBN10: 0312234945
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-09-30
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

At the dawn of a new era, this book brings together leading activists, policy-makers and critics to reflect upon fifty years of attempts to improve respect for human rights. Authors include President Jimmy Carter, who helped inject human rights concerns into U.S. policy; Wei Jingsheng, who struggled to do so in China; Louis Henkin, the modern "father" of international law, and Richard Goldstone, the former chief prosecutor for the Yugoslav and Rwandan war crimes tribunals. A half-century since the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights the time is right to assess how policies and actions effect the realization of human rights and to point to new directions and challenges that lie ahead. A must have for everyone in the human rights community and the broader foreign policy community as well as the reader who is increasingly aware of the visibility of human rights concerns on the public stage.

Author Biography

Samantha Power is a Professor of Practice in Public Policy at Harvard University, and the founding executive director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy (1998-2002).

Graham Allison is former Dean of the Kennedy School. He has authored more than a dozen books including Essence of Decision: Explaining the Cuban Missile Crisis which has sold over 200,000 copies.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	xi
Introduction	xiii
PART I The Road to the Twenty-First Century
Human Rights: Ideology and Aspiration, Reality and Prospect	3	(36)
Louis Henkin
Human Rights: Not Merely an Internal Affair	39	(10)
Wei Jingsheng
The American Road to a Human Rights Policy	49	(14)
Jimmy Carter
Opening Totalitarian Societies to the Outside World: A View from Russia	63	(14)
Leonid Romankov
PART II Human Rights Enforcement: State and Individual Accountability
Human Rights in Europe	77	(34)
Shirley Williams
The Inter-American System of Protection: Its Contributions to the International Law of Human Rights	111	(32)
Juan E. Mendez
The Construction of the African Human Rights System: Prospects and Pitfalls	143	(24)
Makau Mutua
Human Rights in Pakistan: A System in the Making	167	(28)
Asma Jahangir
Advancing the Cause of Human Rights: The Need for Justice and Accountability	195	(30)
Richard J. Goldstone
PART III Human Rights Policy Ideas, Institutions, and Instruments
Human Rights Organizations: A New Force for Social Change	225	(24)
Kenneth Roth
Democracy and Human Rights: An Argument for Convergence	249	(16)
Morton H. Halperin
Diplomacy with a Cause: Human Rights in U.S. Foreign Policy	265	(26)
John Shattuck
Economic Sanctions and Human Rights	291	(18)
Aryen Neier
Human Rights and Humanitarian Intervention in the Twenty-First Century	309	(12)
Kofi Annan
Human Rights and Warfare: An Ounce of Prevention Is Worth a Pound of Cure	321	(16)
David Hamburg
``Conscience Trigger'': The Press and Human Rights	337	(16)
Anna Husarska
PART IV Afterword: The Challenges Ahead
The Challenges Ahead: Analysis and Integration	353	(9)
Mary Robinson
About the Editors	362	(1)
Index	363