Encyclopedia of human rights issues since 1945 / Winston E. Langley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Langley, Winston.

Contributor:

ProQuest ebook central.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human rights--Encyclopedias.

Human rights.

Genre:

Encyclopedias.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxix, 392 pages)

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Place of Publication:

Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1999.

System Details:

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Summary:

An outstanding, comprehensive, and up-to-date encyclopedia on human rights issues, designed specifically for high school and college students.

Contents:

Dedication

Preface

Introduction

Abbreviations

Users' Guide

Significant Dates in the Field of Human Rights

Appendix A: Selected Human Rights Groups

Appendix B: the International Bill of Human Rights

Appendix C: Convention on the Rights of the Child

Glossary

About the Author

Abortion

Academic Freedom and Human Rights

Adjudication

Advisory Services in the Field of Human Rights

Affirmative Action

Afghanistan

African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights

Age of Consent

AIDS and Human Rights

Algeria

Aliens

American Convention on Human Rights

American Declaration of the Rights and Duties of Man

Amnesty International

Amnesty Laws

Apartheid

Arab World and Human Rights

Arbitrary Arrest and Detention

Armed Conflict

Asian Values

Assembly and Association

Associated Country Women of the World

Asylum

Atlantic Charter

Australia

Bahai International Community

Bangkok Declaration

Bangladesh

B'nai B'rith International

Bonded Labor

Bosnia-Herzegovina

Brazil

Burma

Business Corporations and Human Rights

Cambodia

Canada

Capital Punishment

Carter, Jimmy (James Earl, Jr.) (1924- )

Centre for Human Rights

Charter 77

Chechnya

Child Labor

Child, Rights of

Chile

China

Civil and Political Rights

Cloning and Biomedicine

Code of Conduct for Law Enforcement Officials

Collectivization

Commission on Human Rights

Commission on the Status of Women

Committee Against Torture

Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe

Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

Committee on Nongovernmental Organizations

Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women

Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination

Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People

Compensation for Victims of Human Rights Abuse

Conditionality

Convention Against Discrimination in Education

Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment

Convention Concerning Equal Opportunities and Equal Treatment for Men and Women Workers: Workers with Family Responsibilities

Convention Concerning Equal Remuneration for Men and Women Workers for Work of Equal Value

Convention Concerning Maternity Protection

Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in Persons and the Exploitation of the Prostitution of Others

Convention on Consent to Marriage, Minimum Age for Marriage and Registration of Marriages

Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine

Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women

Convention on the Nationality of Married Women

Convention on the Non-Applicability of the Statutory Limitations to War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity

Convention on the Political Rights of Women

Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide

Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness

Convention on the Rights of the Child

Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees

Convention Relating to the Status of Stateless Persons

Council of Europe

Crimes Against Humanity

Crimes Against Peace

Cuba

Cultural Life

Dalai Lama

Death Squads

Declaration Concerning Essentials of Peace

Declaration for the Protection of War Victims

Declaration of a Global Ethic

Declaration of the Basic Principles of Justice for Victims of Crime and Abuse of Power

Declaration of the Rights of the Child

Declaration on Permanent Sovereignty Over Natural Resources

Declaration on Social and Legal Principles Relating to the Protection and Welfare of Children, with Special Reference to Foster Placement and Adoption Nationally and Internationally

Declaration on Territorial Asylum

Declaration on the Elimination of All Forms of Intolerance and of Discrimination Based on Religion or Belief

Declaration on the Elimination of Violence Against Women

Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples

Declaration on the Human Rights of Individuals Who Are not Nationals of the Country in Which They Live

Declaration on the Promotion Among Youth of the Ideals of Peace, Mutual Respect and Understanding Between Peoples

Declaration on the Protection of All Persons From Being Subject to Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment

Declaration on the Protection of All Persons From Enforced Disappearance

Declaration on the Protection of Women and Children in Emergency Armed Conflict

Declaration on the Right of Peoples to Peace

Declaration on the Right to Development

Declaration on the Rights of Disabled Persons

Declaration on the Rights of Mentally Retarded Persons

Declaration on the Rights of Persons Belonging to National or Ethnic, Religious and Linguistic Minorities

Declaration on the Use of Scientific and Technological Progress in the Interest of Peace and for the Benefit of Mankind

Defense for Children International

Democratic Entitlement

Derogation

Detention

Discrimination

Domestic Violence

Drugs and Human Rights

Duties

Earth Charter

Economic and Social Council

Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

Education

Employment

Environment

Equality

Ethnic Cleansing

European Convention on Human Rights

European Court of Human Rights

European Social Charter

Expulsion

Fact-Finding

Fair Trial

Family

First Tranche

Food

Forced Labor

Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities

Friends World Committee for Consultation

Fundamentalism

Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand (1869-1948)

General Assembly

Generations of Rights

Geneva Conventions

Genital Mutilation

Genocide

Gorbachev, Mikhail S. (1931- )

Gulag Archipelago

Haiti

Havel, Va'Clav (1946- )

Health

Helsinki Accords

Holy See

Housing

Human Dimension (Mechanism)

Human Rights

Human Rights and Youth

Human Rights Commissions (Regional)

Human Rights Committee

Human Rights Day

Human Rights Watch.

India

Indigenous Peoples

Information

Inter-American Charter of Social Guarantees

Inter-American Commission of Women

Inter-American Convention on the Forced Disappearance of Persons

Inter-American Convention on the Prevention, Punishment and Eradication of Violence Against Women

Inter-American Court of Human Rights

Inter-American Declaration on Racial Integration in the Americas

International Bill of Human Rights

International Catholic Child Bureau

International Committee of the Red Cross

International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination

International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families

International Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid

International Court of Justice

International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights

International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

International Covenants on Human Rights

International Criminal Court

International Helsinki Federation

International Labor Organization

International Law Commission

Interventionism

Intifadah

Iraq

Israel

Journalists

Judiciary

Kashmir

Kent State Tragedy

King, Rodney G.

Kosovo

Kurdistan

Kuwait

Land Mines

Lesbian and Gay Rights

Liberation Theology

Liberty and Security of Person

Louima, Abner

Mandela, Nelson (1918- )

Mao Zedong (1893-1976)

Marriage and the Family

Mexico

Milosevic, Slobodan (1941- )

Minorities

Moral and Material Interests

Motherhood and Childhood

Mothers of the Plaza De Mayo

Movement and Residence

My Lai Massacre

Nagorno-Karabakh

Nationality

Nation-Building

Natural Law

New World Information and Communications Order

Nigeria

Nongovernmental Organization

Northern Ireland

Nunca Mas

Nuremberg War Crimes Trials

Nyerere, Julius (1922- )

Object of International Law

Obligation to Implement Human Rights Covenants

Office of High Commissioner for Human Rights

Opinion and Expression

Organization for Security and Co-Operation in Europe

Organization of African Unity

Organization of American States

Palestine Liberation Organization

Palme, Olaf (1927-1986)

Peoples

Philippines

Physical and Mental Health

Physicians for Human Rights

Poland

Poverty

Principles of International Co-Operation in the Detection, Arrest, Extradition and Punishment of War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity

Principles of International Law Recognized in the Charter and in the Judgment of the Nuremberg Tribunal

Principles of Medical Ethics Relevant to the Role of Healthprofessionals, Particularly Physicians, in the Protection of Prisoners and Detainees Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment

Privacy

Procedural Guarantees, Processes and Protections

Proclamation of Teheran

Propaganda

Property

Public Emergency

Purge

Racism

Rape

Ratification

Relativism and Universalism

Religion and Human Rights

Remedy

Rest, Leisure and Reasonable Limitation on Working Hours

Right of Petition

Right to Leave and Return

Right to Life

Romania

Roosevelt, Eleanor (1884-1962)

Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1882-1945)

Russia

Rwanda

Saami

Safeguards Guaranteeing the Protection of the Rights of Those Facing the Death Penalty

Sakharov, Andrei D. (1921-1989)

Saudi Arabia

Science and Technology

Security Council

Self-Determination

Serbia

Sexual Harassment

Sharia

Sikhs

Singapore

Slavery, the Slave Trade, and Slavery-Like Practices

Social Security

Soka Gakkai International

South Africa

Sovereignty

Stalin, Joseph V. (1879-1953)

Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners

Standard of Living

Standard-Setting

Sterilization

Sub-Commission on the Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities

Superior Orders

Thought, Conscience and Religion

Tokyo War Crimes Trials

Traffic in Persons and the Exploitation of the Prostitution of Others

Trusteeship Council

Truth Commissions

Turkey

United Kingdom

United Nations Charter

United Nations Children Fund

United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization

United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees

United Nations Secretariat

United Nations Standard Minimum Rules for the Administration of Juvenile Justice

United Nations University

United Nations Voluntary Fund for Advisory Services and Technical Assistance in the Field of Human Rights

United States

Universal Declaration of Human Responsibilities

Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Universal Declaration on the Eradication of Hunger and Malnutrition

University for Peace

Visa

War Crimes

War Crimes Tribunals

Western Sahara

Women'S International League for Peace and Freedom

Work

Working Groups

World Charter for Nature

World Conferences on Human Rights

World Conferences on Women

World Federalist Movement

World Health Organization

Yamashita, Tomoyuki (1885-1946)

Yellow Peril

Zionism.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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