Universal human rights? / edited by Robert G. Patman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Patman, Robert G.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

United Nations.

United Nations. General Assembly.

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

Human rights.

Physical Description:

xiii, 244 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

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

Contents:

1 International Human Rights after the Cold War / Robert G. Patman 1

2 New Zealand's International Human Rights Policy: Bridging the Gap between Ideals and Practice / Simon Upton 19

3 Universal Human Rights? An Analysis of the 'Human-Rights Culture' and its Critics / Chris Brown 31

4 Social Rights: Building a Legal Tradition / Paul Hunt 50

5 The Human Rights of Indigenous People: Tiptoeing Towards Self-Determination / Paul Reeves 64

6 Human Rights-The Asian Perspective / Hishammuddin Tun Hussein 75

7 Asia and Human Rights at the Crossroads of the New Millennium: Between the Universalist and the Particularist? / Vitit Muntarbhorn 81

8 Human Rights, the New Universal Media Angle: is it a Distorting Lens? / Rowan Callick 96

9 Human Rights and the Clinton Administration: American Policy at the Dawn of a New Century / James McCormick 114

10 Protection of Human Rights in the New Ethiopia / Fasil Nahum 135

11 Rape As A War Crime and Crime Against Humanity: Its Questionable Status / Kathleen Mahoney 156

12 Human Rights and Multi-functional Peace Operations / Nina Groeger 175

13 Privacy and the Human Rights Challenges of Technology and Globalisation / Paul Roth 191

14 The Challenge of Protection and Monitoring: an NGO Perspective / Demelza Stubbings 211

15 Human Rights and Foreign Policy / Rex Honey 226.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0312232659

OCLC:

43083289