Subjects:

Human Rights and Civil Liberties

Contents:

Introduction

Human rights law, executive powers and torture in the post 9/11 era

Human rights advocates in the post 9/11 era

the body counts

International human rights law

Women's human rights in the 21st century

The Center for Justice and Accountability

Human trafficking and migration

Doctors without borders and the moral economy of pharmaceuticals

Works cited

Conclusion

Index.

This volume expands our understanding of the pursuit of human rights during the era of the War on Terror. The threat to human rights both in the United States and among detainees in US-governed detention facilities created a widely perceived crisis in human rights. This text explores the broad and complicated ramifications of crisis by looking comparatively at societies in the present era and looking back at the historical and legal foundations of human rights. Human Rights in Crisis contains an element of hope derived from a conviction that the pursuit of human rights happens on many fronts and in many ways around the globe; that a retreat from human rights in the United States does not necessarily signal a global retreat. The essays here include perspectives from History, Anthropology, and Legal Studies, with a resulting interdisciplinary portrait of the complexities of pursuing human rights in wartime.