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Steiner Henry J

International human rights in context : Law, politics, morals, text and materials - 3rd - Oxford Oxford University Press 2007 - 1493 xxxi

CONTENTS
PART A: INTRODUCTORY NOTIONS AND BACKGROUND TO INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS MOVEMENT-
1. Human rights concepts and discourse;
2. The human rights movement: Background and birth;

PART B: NORMATIVE FOUNDATIONS OF INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS-
3. Civil and political rights;
4. Economic and social rights;
5. National security, terrorism and limitations on human rights;

PART C: RIGHTS, DUTIES AND DILEMMAS OF UNIVERSALISM-
6. Rights and duties as organizing concepts;
7. Conflict in culture, tradition and practices: Challenges to universalism;

PART D: INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS ORGANIZATIONS-
8. Design and functions of international institutions, and issues of sovereignty;
9. The United Nations human rights system;
10. Treaty bodies: The ICCPR human rights committee;
11. Regional Arrangements;

PART E: STATES AS PROTECTORS AND ENFORCERS OF HUMAN RIGHTS-
12. Vertical interpenetration: International human rights law within states’legal and political orders;
13. Horizontal Interpenetration: Transnational influence and enforcement of human rights;


PART F: CURRENT TOPICS-
14. Massive human rights tragedies: prosecutions and truth commissions;
15. Non-state actors and human rights;
16. Human rights, development and climate change;
Document supplement;
Annex on citations to human rights instruments;
Index of topics;
Index of names.



ISBN: 9780199279425

Subjects--Topical Terms:
1.International Human Rights - Law2.International Human Rights - Politics3.International Human Rights - Morals

Dewey Class. No.: 341.481 / STE-4