International human rights in context : law, politics, morals : text and materials /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford, UK :
Oxford University Press,
2008.
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| Edition: | 3rd ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- Human rights concepts and discourse
- The human rights movement : background and birth
- Civil and political rights
- Economic and social rights
- National security, terrorism and limitations on human rights
- Rights or duties as organizing concepts
- Conflict in culture, tradition and practices : challenges to universalism
- Design and functions of international institutions, and issues of sovereignty
- The United Nations human rights system
- Treaty bodies : the ICCPR human rights committee
- Regional arrangements
- Vertical interpenetration : international human rights law within states' legal and political orders
- Horizontal interpenetration : transnational influence and enforcement of human rights
- Massive human rights tragedies : prosecutions and truth commissions
- Non-state actors and human rights
- Human rights, development and climate change.