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Human rights in the world community : issues and action / edited by Burns H. Weston and Anna Grear.
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Title:Human rights in the world community : issues and action / edited by Burns H. Weston and Anna Grear.
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Other Contributors/Collections:Weston, Burns H., 1933-2015, editor.
Grear, Anna, 1959- editor.
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Published/Created:Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2016]
©2016
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Location:LAW LIBRARY (level 3)Where is this?
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Call Number: K3240 .H8573 2016
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Number of Items:1
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Status:Available
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Location:LAW LIBRARY (level 3)Where is this?
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Library of Congress Subjects:Human rights.
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Edition:Fourth edition.
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Description:xxxiii, 456 pages ; 26 cm
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Series:Pennsylvania studies in human rights.
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Summary:Specifically designed for educational use in international relations, law, political science, economics, and philosophy classes, Human Rights in the World Community treats the full range of human rights issues, including key paradoxes and contestations surrounding human rights, implementation problems, and processes involving international, national, and nongovernmental action. This new, expanded edition reflects the global, large-scale changes that have occurred in the field, including the rise of terrorism and the triple threats of climate change, nuclear proliferation, and poverty, and each section features, as in previous editions, provocatively probing discussion questions. For the first time, the book's excellent appendices are available online: a bibliography, which encourages further study; an annotated human rights filmography; and the texts of, and citations to, key human rights instruments.
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Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Includes filmography (available on website).
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ISBN:9780812247381 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
0812247388 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
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Contents:Machine generated contents note: pt. I ISSUES
ch. 1 International Human Rights: Issues And Overviews
1. Human Rights: Concept and Content / Burns H. Weston
Questions for Reflection and Discussion
2. "Framing the Project" of International Human Rights Law: Reflections on the Dysfunctional "Family" of the Universal Declaration / Anna Grear
Questions for Reflection and Discussion
3. Capabilities, Human Rights, and the Universal Declaration / Martha C. Nussbaum
Questions for Reflection and Discussion
4. Universalism Versus Cultural Relativism: An Appeal for Respectful Decision-Making / Burns H. Weston
Questions for Reflection and Discussion
5. Globalization and Human Rights / Richard Fairbrother
Questions for Reflection and Discussion
6. Human Rights in the Twenty-First Century: Take a Walk on the Dark Side / Ratna Kapur
Questions for Reflection and Discussion
7. Toward a New Sociology of Rights: A Genealogy of "Buried Bodies" of Citizenship and Human Rights / Christopher N. J. Roberts
Questions for Reflection and Discussion
ch. 2 Basic Decencies
8. Genocide / Claudia Card
Questions for Reflection and Discussion
9. Law, Otherness, and Human Trafficking / Jonathan Todres
Questions for Reflection and Discussion
10. Torture and Positive Law / Jeremy Waldron
Questions for Reflection and Discussion
ch. 3 Participatory Rights
11. Civil Rights / Richard B. Lillich
Questions for Reflection and Discussion
12. Equality and Non-Discrimination / Daniel Moeckli
Questions for Reflection and Discussion
13. Racism: A Threat to Global Peace / Ineke Van Der Valk
Questions for Reflection and Discussion
14. International Human Rights and Body Politics / Siobhan Mullally
Questions for Reflection and Discussion
15. Borders, Boundaries, and Citizenship / Seyla Benhabib
Questions for Reflection and Discussion
ch. 4 Basic Human Needs As Security Rights
16. Another Step Toward Indivisibility: Key Features of Violations of Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights / Scott Leckie
Questions for Reflection and Discussion
17. New Discourse of Labor Rights: From Social to Fundamental Rights? / Judy Fudge
Questions for Reflection and Discussion
18. Right to Health: Key Objectives, Themes, and Interventions / Paul Hunt
Questions for Reflection and Discussion
19. Food Sovereignty: A New Rights Framework for Food and Nature / Hannah Wittman
Questions for Reflection and Discussion
20. Right to Education and to Human Rights Education / Felisa L. Tibbitts
Questions for Reflection and Discussion
21. Culture as an Activity and Human Right / Cindy Holder
Questions for Reflection and Discussion
ch. 5 Community Or Group Rights
-"Solidarity Rights"
22. On Fragile Architecture: The UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in the Context of Human Rights / Karen Engle
Questions for Reflection and Discussion
23. Right to Development: The Politics and Polemics of Power and Resistance / Bonny Ibhawoh
Questions for Reflection and Discussion
24. Do Human Rights Help or Hinder Environmental Protection? / Conor Gearty
Questions for Reflection and Discussion
25. Peace: A Sacred Right / Douglas Roche
Questions for Reflection and Discussion
26. What Has Become of the Emerging Right to Democratic Governance? / Susan Marks
Questions for Reflection and Discussion
pt. II ACTION
ch. 6 International Human Rights: Action Overviews
27. Human Rights: Prescription and Enforcement / Burns H. Weston
Questions for Reflection and Discussion
28. How Is International Human Rights Law Enforced? / Harold Hongju Koh
Questions for Reflection and Discussion
29. Human Rights as Myth and Ceremony? Reevaluating the Effectiveness of Human Rights Treaties, 1981-2007 / Wade M. Cole
Questions for Reflection and Discussion
ch. 7 Public Sector Approaches To International Human Rights Implementation
30. United Nations and Human Rights / Stephen P. Marks
Questions for Reflection and Discussion
31. Breakthroughs, Burdens, and Backlash: What Future for Regional Human Rights Systems? / Dinah L. Shelton
Questions for Reflection and Discussion
32. Searching for a Jurisprudence of Conscience: International Criminal Accountability and Humanitarian Intervention / Richard A. Falk
Questions for Reflection and Discussion
33. Human Rights Accountability in Domestic Courts: Corporations and Extraterritoriality / Burns H. Weston
Questions for Reflection and Discussion
ch. 8 Private Sector Approaches To International Human Rights Implementation
34. What Do Human Rights NGOs Do? / Richard Pierre Claude
Questions for Reflection and Discussion
35. International Law's Invisible Hand and the Future of Corporate Accountability for Violations of Human Rights / Penelope Simons
Questions for Reflection and Discussion
36. Human Right to Revolution / Jordan J. Paust
Questions for Reflection and Discussion
ch. 9 Global Trajectories, Global Futures
37. American Exceptionalism and Human Rights / Michael Ignatieff
Questions for Reflection and Discussion
38. Corporations, Human Rights, and the Age of Globalization: Another Look at the "Dark Side" in the Twenty-First Century / Anna Grear
Questions for Reflection and Discussion
39. Citizenship and Human Rights in the Age of Globalization / Tony Evans
Questions for Reflection and Discussion
POSTSCRIPT: HUMAN RIGHTS, HUMANE GOVERNANCE, AND THE FUTURE
Documentary Appendix A. Select Instruments (see www.uichr.org/WestonGrear)
Documentary Appendix B. Select Citations (see www.uichr.org/WestonGrear)
Select Bibliography (see www.uichr.org/WestonGrear)
Select Filmography (see www.uichr.org/WestonGrear) Supplemental Readings (see www.uichr.org/WestonGrear).