Human Rights in the World Community

A Warm Welcome from the Editors
An Essential Guide to Use of Our Book
About the Authors
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
PART I. ISSIES
Chapter 1. International Human Rights: Issues and Overviews
1. Burns H. Weston, Human Rights: Concept and Content
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2. Anna Grear, "Framing the Project" of International Human Rights Law: Reflections on the Dysfunctional "Family" of the Universal Declaration
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3. Martha C. Nussbaum, Capabilities, Human Rights, and the Universal Declaration
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4. Burns H. Weston, Universalism Versus Cultural Relativism: An Appeal for Respectful Decision-Making
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5. Robert McCorquodale and Richard Fairbrother, Globalization and Human Rights
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6. Ratna Kapur, Human Rights in the Twenty-First Century: Take a Walk on the Dark Side
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7. Margaret R. Somers and Christopher N. J. Roberts, Toward a New Sociology of Rights: A Genealogy of "Buried Bodies" of Citizenship and Human Rights
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Chapter 2. Basic Decencies
8. Claudia Card, Genocide
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9. Jonathan Todres, Law, Otherness, and Human Trafficking
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10. Jeremy Waldron, Torture and Positive Law
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Chapter 3. Participatory Rights
11. Richard B. Lillich, Civil Rights
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12. Daniel Moeckli, Equality and Non-Discrimination
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13. Ineke van der Valk, Racism: A Threat to Global Peace
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14. Fiona Beveridge and Siobhan Mullally, International Human Rights and Body Politics
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15. Seyla Benhabib, Borders, Boundaries, and Citizenship
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Chapter 4. Basic Human Needs as Security Rights
16. Scott Leckie, Another Step Toward Indivisibility: Key Features of Violations of Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights
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17. Judy Fudge, The New Discourse of Labor Rights: From Social to Fundamental Rights?
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18. Paul Hunt, The Right to Health: Key Objectives, Themes, and Interventions
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19. Hannah Wittman, Food Sovereignty: A New Rights Framework for Food and Nature
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20. Richard Pierre Claude and Felisa L. Tibbitts, The Right to Education and to Human Rights Education
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21. Cindy Holder, Culture as an Activity and Human Right
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Chapter 5. Community and Group Rights-"Solidarity Rights"
22. Karen Engle, On Fragile Architecture: The UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in the Context of Human Rights'
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23. Bonny Ibhawoh, The Right to Development: The Politics and Polemics of Power and Resistance
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24. Conor Gearty, Do Human Rights Help or Hinder Environmental Protection?
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25. Douglas Roche, Peace: A Sacred Right
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26. Susan Marks, What Has Become of the Emerging Right to Democratic Governance?
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PART II. ACTION
Chapter 6. International Human Rights: Action Overviews
27. Burns H. Weston, Human Rights: Prescription and Enforcement
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28. Harold Hongju Koh, How Is International Human Rights Law Enforced?
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29. Wade M. Cole, Human Rights as Myth and Ceremony? Reevaluating the Effectiveness of Human Rights Treaties, 1981-2007
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Chapter 7. Public Sector Approaches to International Human Rights Implementation
30. Stephen P. Marks, The United Nations and Human Rights
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31. Dinah L. Shelton, Breakthroughs, Burdens, and Backlash: What Future for Regional Human Rights Systems?
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32. Richard A. Falk, Searching for a Jurisprudence of Conscience: International Criminal Accountability and Humanitarian Intervention
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33. Anna Grear and Burns H. Weston, Human Rights Accountability in Domestic Courts: Corporations and Extraterritoriality
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Chapter 8. Private Sector Approaches to International Human Rights Implementation
34. Richard Pierre Claude, What Do Human Rights NGOs Do?
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35. Penelope Simons, International Law's Invisible Hand and the Future of Corporate Accountability for Violations of Human Rights
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36. Jordan J. Paust, The Human Right to Revolution
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Chapter 9. Global Trajectories, Global Futures
37. Michael Ignatieff, American Exceptionalism and Human Rights
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38. Anna Grear, Corporations, Human Rights, and the Age of Globalization: Another Look at the "Dark Side" in the Twenty-First Century
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39. Tony Evans, Citizenship and Human Rights in the Age of Globalization
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Postscript: Human Rights, Humane Governance, and the Future
Documentary Appendix A. Select Instruments (see www.uichr.org/Weston-Grear)
Documentary Appendix B: Select Citations (see www.uichr.org/Weston-Grear)
Select Bibliography (see www.uichr.org/Weston-Grear)
Select Filmography (see www.uichr.org/Weston-Grear)
Supplemental Readings (see www.uichr.org/Weston-Grear)
Index