Subjects:

Human Rights and Civil Liberties

Contents:

PART A: CONTEMPORARY HUMAN RIGHTS: BACKGROUND AND CONTENT

1 Introduction to Human Rights Issues and Discourse

2 Up to Nuremberg: Background to the Human Rights Movement

3 Civil and Political Rights

4 Economic and Social Rights

PART B: WHAT ARE RIGHTS, ARE THEY EVERYWHERE, AND EVERYWHERE THE SAME? CHALLENGES TO UNIVERSALISM AND CONFLICTS AMONG RIGHTS

5 Rights, Duties, and Cultural Relativism

6 Conflicting Traditions and Rights: Illustrations

PART C: INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS ORGANIZATIONS

7 The Need for International Institutions and their Challenge to Notions of Sovereignty

8 Intergovernmental Enforcement of Human Rights Norms: The United Nations System

9 Treaty Organs: The ICCPR Human Rights Committee

10 Regional Arrangements

11 Civil Society

PART D: STATES AS PROTECTORS AND ENFORCERS OF HUMAN RIGHTS

12 Interpenetration of International and National Systems: Internal Protection of Human Rights by States

13 Enforcement by States against Violator States

PART E: CURRENT TOPICS

14. Massive Human Rights Tragedies: Prosecutions and Truth Commissions

15Self-Determination and Autonomy Regimes

16 Globalization, Development, and Human Rights

Annex on Documents

Annex on Citations

Index of Subjects

Index of Authors Quoted

Steiner and Alston's 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 covers the major topics of international human rights:-

• the basic characteristics of international law;
• evolution of the human rights movement;
• civil, political, economic, and social rights;
• the humanitarian laws of war; globalization;
• self-determination;
• women's rights;
• universalism and cultural relativism;
• intergovernmental and nongovernmental institutions;
• implementation and enforcement;
• internal application of human rights norms;
• and the spread of constitutionalism.

This new edition takes into account the recent significant developments in the field and expands coverage in several directions. Its text and readings provoke discussion of the ongoing and emerging debates of the human rights movement.;Themes such as the changing question of sovereignty, the waning significance of the public-private divide, and the alternative approaches of human rights and duties run through the book.