TY - BOOK AU - Neier,Aryeh ED - Project Muse, TI - International Human Rights Movement: a History T2 - Human rights and crimes against humanity SN - 9780691200996 AV - JC571 .N45 2020 PY - 2020/// CY - Princeton, New Jersey : PB - Princeton University Press, KW - Human rights advocacy KW - History KW - Human rights KW - Defense des droits de l'homme KW - Histoire KW - Droits de l'homme (Droit international) KW - Political science / Human Rights KW - bisacsh KW - fast N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; Acknowledgments --; 1. The Movement --; 2. Putting Natural Law Principles into Practice --; 3. What Are Rights? --; 4. International Human Rights Law --; 5. International Humanitarian Law --; 6. Defying Communism --; 7. Rights on the Other Side of the Cold War Divide --; 8. Amnesty International --; 9. Human Rights Watch --; 10. The Worldwide Movement --; 11. Accountability --; 12. Rights after 9/11 --; 13. Going Forward --; Notes --; Index N2 - "An expanded and updated edition of a classic work on human rights and global justice. Since its original publication, Basic Rights has proven increasingly influential to those working in political philosophy, human rights, global justice, and the ethics of international relations and foreign policy, particularly in debates regarding foreign policy's role in alleviating global poverty. Henry Shue asks: Which human rights ought to be the first honored and the last sacrificed? Shue argues that subsistence rights, along with security rights and liberty rights, serve as the ground of all other human rights. This classic work, now available in a thoroughly updated fortieth-anniversary edition, includes a substantial new chapter by the author examining how the accelerating transformation of our climate progressively undermines the bases of subsistence like sufficient water, affordable food, and housing safe from forest-fires and sea-level rise. Climate change threatens basic rights"-- UR - https://muse.jhu.edu/book/73690/ ER -