International human rights :

Alston, Philip,

International human rights : text and materials / Philip Alston, Ryan Goodman. - xxxix, 1,580 pages ; 25 cm.

"The successor to International human rights in context: law, politics and morals."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Human rights concepts and discourse -- The human rights regime : background and birth -- Civil and political rights -- Economic and social rights -- National security, terrorism and the law of armed conflict -- Rights or duties as organizing concepts -- Conflict in culture, tradition and practices : challenges to universalism -- The United Nations human rights system -- Treaty bodies : the ICCPR Human Rights Committee -- International human rights fact-finding -- Regional arrangements -- Vertical interpenetration : international human rights law within states' legal and political orders -- Horizontal interpenetration : transnational influence and enforcement of human rights -- Measuring and evaluating human rights performance -- Massive human rights tragedies : prosecutions and truth commissions -- Non-state actors and human rights -- Human rights, development and climate change.

9780199578726 (pbk.) 0199578729 (pbk.)

2012538148


Human rights.
Human rights--Moral and ethical aspects.

K3240 / .A4418 2013 K3240 / .A4418 2013
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