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Steiner Henry J

International human rights in context : Law, politics, morals, text and materials - 2nd - Oxford Oxford University Press 2000 - 1497 xxix

Table of contents
PART A: CONTEMPORARY HUMAN RIGHTS: BACKGROUND AND CONTENT;
1. Introduction to Human Rights Issues and Discourse;
2. Up to Nuremberg: Background to the Human Rights Movement;
3. Civil and Political Rights;
4. Economic and Social Rights;
PART B: WHAT ARE RIGHTS, ARE THEY EVERYWHERE, AND EVERYWHERE THE SAME? CHALLENGES TO UNIVERSALISM AND CONFLICTS AMONG RIGHTS;
5. Rights, Duties, and Cultural Relativism;
6. Conflicting Traditions and Rights: Illustrations;
PART C: INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS ORGANIZATIONS;
7. The Need for International Institutions and their Challenge to Notions of Sovereignty;
8. Intergovernmental Enforcement of Human Rights Norms: The United Nations System;
9. Treaty Organs: The ICCPR Human Rights Committee;
10. Regional Arrangements;
11. Civil Society;
PART D: STATES AS PROTECTORS AND ENFORCERS OF HUMAN RIGHTS;
12. Interpenetration of International and National Systems: Internal Protection of Human Rights by States; 13. Enforcement by States against Violator States;
PART E: CURRENT TOPICS;
14. Massive Human Rights Tragedies: Prosecutions and Truth Commissions;
15. Self-Determination and Autonomy Regimes;
16. Globalization, Development, and Human Rights;
Annex on Documents; Annex on Citations;
Index of Subjects; Index of Authors Quoted

ISBN: 9780198298496

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

Dewey Class. No.: 341.481000 / STE-4