Realizing human rights / Samantha Power and Graham Allison, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Power, Samantha.

Allison, Graham T.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human rights.

United Nations. General Assembly. Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

United Nations.

United Nations. General Assembly.

Universal Declaration of Human Rights (United Nations. General Assembly).

Physical Description:

xxviii, 370 pages ; 25 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : St. Martin's Press, 2000.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Part I The Road to the Twenty-First Century

1. Human Rights: Ideology and Aspiration, Reality and Prospect / Louis Henkin 3

2. Human Rights: Not Merely an Internal Affair / Wei Jingsheng 39

3. The American Road to a Human Rights Policy / Jimmy Carter 49

4. Opening Totalitarian Societies to the Outside World: A View from Russia / Leonid Romankov 63

Part II Human Rights Enforcement: State and Individual Accountability

5. Human Rights in Europe / Shirley Williams 77

6. The Inter-American System of Protection: Its Contributions to the International Law of Human Rights / Juan E. Mendez 111

7. The Construction of the African Human Rights System: Prospects and Pitfalls / Makau Mutua 143

8. Human Rights in Pakistan: A System in the Making / Asma Jahangir 167

9. Advancing the Cause of Human Rights: The Need for Justice and Accountability / Richard J. Goldstone 195

Part III Human Rights Policy Ideas, Institutions, and Instruments

10. Human Rights Organizations: A New Force for Social Change / Kenneth Roth 225

11. Democracy and Human Rights: An Argument for Convergence / Morton H. Halperin 249

12. Diplomacy with a Cause: Human Rights in U.S. Foreign Policy / John Shattuck 265

13. Economic Sanctions and Human Rights / Aryeh Neier 291

14. Human Rights and Humanitarian Intervention in the Twenty-First Century / Kofi Annan 309

15. Human Rights and Warfare: An Ounce of Prevention Is Worth a Pound of Cure / David Hamburg 321

16. "Conscience Trigger": The Press and Human Rights / Anna Husarska 337

Part IV Afterword: The Challenges Ahead

17. The Challenges Ahead: Analysis and Integration / Mary Robinson 353.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0312234945

OCLC:

43884892