Human rights in the world community : issues and action / edited by Burns H. Weston and Anna Grear.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Weston, Burns H., 1933-2015, editor.

Grear, Anna, 1959- editor.

Series:

Pennsylvania studies in human rights

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human rights.

Physical Description:

xxxiii, 456 pages ; 26 cm.

Edition:

Fourth edition.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2016]

Summary:

Specifically designed for educational use in international relations, law, political science, economics, and philosophy classes, Human Rights in the World Community treats the full range of human rights issues, including key paradoxes and contestations surrounding human rights, implementation problems, and processes involving international, national, and nongovernmental action. This new, expanded edition reflects the global, large-scale changes that have occurred in the field, including the rise of terrorism and the triple threats of climate change, nuclear proliferation, and poverty, and each section features, as in previous editions, provocatively probing discussion questions. For the first time, the book's excellent appendices are available online: a bibliography, which encourages further study; an annotated human rights filmography; and the texts of, and citations to, key human rights instruments. Book jacket.

Contents:

Human rights : concept and content / Burns H. Weston

"Framing the project" of international human rights law : reflections on the dysfunctional "family" of the Universal Declaration / Anna Grear

Capabilities, human rights, and the Universal Declaration / Martha C. Nussbaum

Universalism versus cultural relativism : an appeal for respectful decision-making / Burns H. Weston

Globalization and human rights / Robert McCorquodale and Richard Fairbrother

Human rights in the twenty-first century : take a walk on the dark side / Ratna Kapur

Toward a new sociology of rights : a genealogy of "buried bodies" of citizenship and human rights / Margaret R. Somers and Christopher N. J. Roberts

Genocide / Claudia Card

Law, otherness, and human trafficking / Jonathan Todres

Torture and positive law / Jeremy Waldron

Civil rights / Richard B. Lillich

Equality and non-discrimination / Daniel Moeckli

Racism : a threat to global peace / Ineke van der Valk

International human rights and body politics / Fiona Beveridge and Siobhan Mullally

Borders, boundaries, and citizenship / Seyla Benhabib

Another step toward indivisibility : key features of violations of economic, social, and cultural rights / Scott Leckie

The new discourse of labor rights : from social to fundamental rights? / Judy Fudge

The right to health : key objectives, themes, and interventions / Paul Hunt

Food sovereignty : a new rights framework for food and nature / Hannah Wittman

The right to education and to human rights education / Richard Pierre Claude and Felisa L. Tibbitts

Culture as an activity and human right / Cindy Holder

On fragile architecture : the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in the context of human rights / Karen Engle

The right to development : the politics and polemics of power and resistance / Bonny Ibhawoh

Do human rights help or hinder environmental protection? / Conor Gearty

Peace : a sacred right / Douglas Roche

What has become of the emerging right to democratic governance? / Susan Marks

Human rights : prescription and enforcement / Burns H. Weston

How is international human rights law enforced? / Harold Hongju Koh

Human rights as myth and ceremony? Reevaluating the effectiveness of human rights treaties, 1981-2007 / Wade M. Cole

The United Nations and human rights / Stephen P. Marks

Breakthroughs, burdens, and backlash : what future for regional human rights systems? / Dinah L. Shelton

Searching for a jurisprudence of conscience : international criminal accountability and humanitarian intervention / Richard A. Falk

Human rights accountability in domestic courts : corporations and extraterritoriality / Anna Grear and Burns H. Weston

What do human rights NGOs do? / Richard Pierre Claude

International law's invisible hand and the future of corporate accountability for violations of human rights / Penelope Simons

The human right to revolution / Jordan J. Paust

American exceptionalism and human rights / Michael Ignatieff

Corporations, human rights, and the age of globalization : another look at the "dark side" in the twenty-first century / Anna Grear

Citizenship and human rights in the age of globalization / Tony Evans.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Includes filmography.

ISBN:

9780812247381

0812247388

OCLC:

925410960