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International human rights : text and materials / Philip Alston, Ryan Goodman.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextDescription: xxxix, 1580 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 9780199578726
  • 0199578729
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 341.48 23
LOC classification:
  • K3240 .A4418 2013
Online resources: Other related works: Steiner, Henry J. International human rights in context.
Contents:
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.
Summary: "The successor to International human rights in context : law, politics and morals."
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"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.

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

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