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Human rights in the world community : issues and action / edited by Richard Pierre Claude and Burns H. Weston.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextPublication details: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c1992.Edition: 2nd edDescription: xiii, 463 p. : ill. ; 26 cmISBN:
  • 0812231546 (HB : alk. paper)
  • 9780812231540 (HB : alk. paper)
  • 0812213963 (pbk.)
  • 9780812213966 (pbk.)
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Online version:: Human rights in the world community.DDC classification:
  • 342/.085 342.285 20
LOC classification:
  • K3240.4 .H838 1992
Other classification:
  • 86.81
Contents:
Human rights / Burns H. Weston -- Theoretical foundations of human rights / Richard A. Falk -- International human rights and cultural relativism / Fernando R. Tesón -- The sovereign territorial state : the right to genocide / Leo Kuper -- Torture as policy / Amnesty International -- Civil rights / Richard B. Lillich -- Race, sex, and religious discrimination in international law / Jack Greenberg -- Refugees : a never-ending story / W.R. Smyser -- Human rights on the periphery : no room in the ark for the Yanomami? / Christian Bay -- Human rights in liberal, socialist, and Third World perspective / Adamantia Pollis -- Realization of social and economic rights and the minimum threshold approach / Asbjørn Eide -- The right of development as a human right / Héctor Gross Espiell -- Self-determination as a human right / Hurst Hannum -- Planetary rights / Edith Brown Weiss -- Peace as a human right / Philip Alston.
The United Nations and human rights : more than a whimper, less than a roar / Tom J. Farer -- Regional human rights regimes : a comparison and appraisal / Burns H. Weston, Robin Ann Lukes, and Kelly M. Hnatt -- The Helsinki process : birth of a human rights system / Thomas Buergenthal -- Strategies for the international protection of human rights in the 1990s / B.G. Ramcharan -- Human rights and foreign policy / Evan Luard -- Humanitarian intervention and American foreign policy : law, morality, and politics / Jack Donnelly -- Congress and human rights in U.S. foreign policy : the fate of general legislation / David P. Forsythe -- The case of Joelito Filártiga in the courts / Richard P. Claude -- The United States commitment to international human rights / Diane F. Orentlicher -- Human rights nongovernmental organizations / Laurie S. Wiseberg.
Scientists as detectives : investigating human rights / Clyde Collins Snow, Eric Stover, and Kari Hannibal -- Multinational corporations and human rights / Matthew Lippman -- "Looking and thinking" about human rights and revolution / Winston P. Nagan.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Human rights / Burns H. Weston -- Theoretical foundations of human rights / Richard A. Falk -- International human rights and cultural relativism / Fernando R. Tesón -- The sovereign territorial state : the right to genocide / Leo Kuper -- Torture as policy / Amnesty International -- Civil rights / Richard B. Lillich -- Race, sex, and religious discrimination in international law / Jack Greenberg -- Refugees : a never-ending story / W.R. Smyser -- Human rights on the periphery : no room in the ark for the Yanomami? / Christian Bay -- Human rights in liberal, socialist, and Third World perspective / Adamantia Pollis -- Realization of social and economic rights and the minimum threshold approach / Asbjørn Eide -- The right of development as a human right / Héctor Gross Espiell -- Self-determination as a human right / Hurst Hannum -- Planetary rights / Edith Brown Weiss -- Peace as a human right / Philip Alston.

The United Nations and human rights : more than a whimper, less than a roar / Tom J. Farer -- Regional human rights regimes : a comparison and appraisal / Burns H. Weston, Robin Ann Lukes, and Kelly M. Hnatt -- The Helsinki process : birth of a human rights system / Thomas Buergenthal -- Strategies for the international protection of human rights in the 1990s / B.G. Ramcharan -- Human rights and foreign policy / Evan Luard -- Humanitarian intervention and American foreign policy : law, morality, and politics / Jack Donnelly -- Congress and human rights in U.S. foreign policy : the fate of general legislation / David P. Forsythe -- The case of Joelito Filártiga in the courts / Richard P. Claude -- The United States commitment to international human rights / Diane F. Orentlicher -- Human rights nongovernmental organizations / Laurie S. Wiseberg.

Scientists as detectives : investigating human rights / Clyde Collins Snow, Eric Stover, and Kari Hannibal -- Multinational corporations and human rights / Matthew Lippman -- "Looking and thinking" about human rights and revolution / Winston P. Nagan.

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