International human rights in context : law, politics, morals : text and materials
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International human rights in context : law, politics, morals : text and materials
Oxford University Press, 2008
3rd ed
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The third edition of International Human Rights in Context continues to bring sophisticated and thought-provoking analysis to the study of human rights within its wider social and cultural context. This widely acclaimed interdisciplinary coursebook presents a diverse range of carefully edited primary and secondary materials alongside extensive text, editorial commentary, and study questions. Within its conceptual framework, the book thoroughly covers the major topics of international human rights: the basic characteristics of international law; evolution of the human rights movement movement; civil, political, economic and social rights; the humanitarian laws of war; globalization; self-determination; women's rights; universalism and cultural relativisim; intergovernmental and nongovernmental institutions; implementation and enforcement; internal application of human rights norms; and the spread of constitutionalism.The third edition has been considerably revised and restructured to incoroprate new themes and topics including: human rights in relation to terrorism amd national security; responsibility of nonstate actors for human rights violations; recent substantial changes in sources and processes of international law; achieved and potential reforrm within UN human rights institution; theories about international organizations and their influence on state behavior.
Its scope, challenging enquiries, and clarity make it the ideal companion for human rights students, scholars, advocates and practitioners alike. Online Resource Centre The third edition is accompanied by a new Online Resource Centre housing a documents supplement, a selection of documents essential to an understanding of materials in different parts of the coursebook.
Table of Contents
- PART A INTRODUCTORY NOTIONS AND BACKGROUND TO INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS MOVEMENT
- 1. Human rights concepts and discourse
- 2. Background to and Postwar Creation of the Human Rights Movement
- PART B NORMATIVE FOUNDATION OF INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS
- 3. Civil and political rights
- 4. Economic and social rights
- 5. National security, terrorism, and derogations of human rights
- PART C RIGHTS, DUTIES AND UNIVERSALISM
- 6. Rights or duties as primary organizing concepts
- 7. Conflicts in culture, tradition and practices
- PART D INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS INSTITUTIONS
- 8. International institutions and challenges to notions of sovereignty
- 9. The UN human rights system
- 10. Treaty organs: the ICCPR human rights committee
- 11. Regional arrangements
- PART E STATES AS PROTECTORS AND ENFORCERS OF HUMAN RIGHTS
- 12. Vertical interpretation: human rights treaties within states' legal and political orders
- 13. Horizontal interpretation: transnational influence and enforcement of human rights
- PART F CURRENT TOPICS
- 14. Massive human rights tragedies: prosecutions and truth commissions
- 15. Autonomy regimes
- 16. Non-state actors and human rights
- 17. Human rights and development, finance and trade
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