China, the United Nations, and human rights : the limits of compliance / Ann Kent.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kent, A. E. (Ann E.)

Series:

Pennsylvania studies in human rights.

Pennsylvania studies in human rights

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human rights--China.

Human rights.

United Nations--China.

United Nations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (343 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c1999.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Selected by Choice magazine as a Outstanding Academic Book for 2000 Nelson Mandela once said, "Human rights have become the focal point of international relations." This has certainly become true in American relations with the People's Republic of China. Ann Kent's book documents China's compliance with the norms and rules of international treaties, and serves as a case study of the effectiveness of the international human rights regime, that network of international consensual agreements concerning acceptable treatment of individuals at the hands of nation-states. Since the early 1980's, and particularly since 1989, by means of vigorous monitoring and the strict maintenance of standards, United Nations human rights organizations have encouraged China to move away from its insistence on the principle of noninterference, to take part in resolutions critical of human rights conditions in other nations, and to accept the applicability to itself of human rights norms and UN procedures. Even though China has continued to suppress political dissidents at home, and appears at times resolutely defiant of outside pressure to reform, Ann Kent argues that it has gradually begun to implement some international human rights standards.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter 1. The UN Human Rights Regime and China's Participation Before 1989

Chapter 2. China, the UN Commission on Human Rights, and the UN Sub-Commission on Human Rights

Chapter 3. China and Torture: Treaty Bodies and Special Rapporteurs

Chapter 4. China and the UN Specialized Agencies: The International Labor Organization

Chapter 5. Theory, Policy, and Diplomacy Before Wenna

Chapter 6. The UN World Human Rights Conference at Vienna

Chapter 7. After Vienna: China's Implementation of Human Rights

Conclusion

Notes

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [251]-314) and index.

ISBN:

9780812200935

0812200934

OCLC:

759158252