Realizing human rights : moving from inspiration to impact

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Realizing human rights : moving from inspiration to impact

edited by Samantha Power and Graham Allison

Palgrave Macmillan, 2006

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Description

At the dawn of a new era, this book brings together leading activists, policy-makers and critics to reflect upon fifty years of attempts to improve respect for human rights. Authors include President Jimmy Carter, who helped inject human rights concerns into US policy; Wei Jingsheng, who struggled to do so in China; Louis Henkin, the modern "father" of international law, and Richard Goldstone, the former chief prosecutor for the Yugoslav and Rwandan war crimes tribunals. A half-century since the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights the time is right to assess how policies and actions effect the realization of human rights and to point to new directions and challenges that lie ahead. A must have for everyone in the human rights community and the broader foreign policy community as well as the reader who is increasingly aware of the visibility of human rights concerns on the public stage.

Table of Contents

  • Contents: The Road to the Twenty-First Century - Human Rights: Ideology and Aspiration, Reality and Prospect
  • L.Henkin - Human Rights: Not Merely an Internal Affair
  • W.Jingsheng - The American Road to a Human Rights Policy
  • J.Carter - Opening Totalitarian Societies to the World Outside
  • L.Romankov - Human Rights Enforcement: State and Individual Accountability - Human Rights in Europe
  • S.Williams - The Inter-American System of Protection: Its Contribution to the International Law of Human Rights
  • J.Mendez - The Construction of the African Human Rights System: Prospects and Pitfalls
  • M.Mutua - Human Rights in Pakistan: A System in the Making
  • A.Jahangir - Advancing the Cause of Human Rights: The Need for Justice and Accountability
  • R.Goldstone - Human Rights Policy Ideas, Institutions, and Instruments - Human Rights Organizations: A New Force for Social Change
  • K.Roth - Democracy and Human Rights: An Argument for Convergence
  • M.H.Halperin - Diplomacy with a Cause: Human Rights in US Foreign Policy
  • J.Shattuck - Economic Sanctions and Human Rights
  • A.Neier - Human Rights and Humanitarian Intervention
  • K.Annan - Human Rights and Deadly Conflict: An Ounce of Prevention is Worth a Pound of Cure
  • D.Hamburg - 'Conscience Trigger': The Press and Human Rights
  • A.Husarska - Afterword - The Challenges Ahead: Analysis and Integration
  • M.Robinson

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  • NCID
    BA77782477
  • ISBN
    • 1403973113
  • LCCN
    00038238
  • Country Code
    us
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    New York
  • Pages/Volumes
    xxviii, 370 p.
  • Size
    24 cm
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