The definitive work in the field, International Human Rights provides a comprehensive analysis of this wide and diverse subject area. Written by world-renowned scholars Philip Alston and Ryan Goodman, this book is the successor to the widely acclaimed International Human Rights in Context. Alston and Goodman have chosen a wide selection of materials from primary and secondary sources--legislation, case law, and academic writings--in order to demonstrate and illuminate key themes. They carefully guide students through each extract with thoughtful and lucid commentary. Questions are posed throughout the book in order to encourage deeper reflection and critical enquiry.
Author(s): Philip Alston; Ryan Goodman; Henry J. Steiner
Edition: 2nd Revised ed.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Year: 2013
Language: English
Commentary: This PDF is updated with pages in the correct order. A former version has pages 356 to 1188 out of order (its ID is 1116821).
Pages: 1580
City: Oxford
Tags: CIVIL AND POLITICAL RIGHTS, ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL RIGHTS, HUMAN RIGHTS, HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS, Human Rights, Human rights, Human rights Moral and ethical aspects, INTERNATIONAL INSTRUMENTS, International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (1966), NATIONAL SECURITY, NON-STATE ACTORS, TERRORISM, TRUTH COMMISSIONS, UN System
PART A. INTRODUCTORY NOTIONS AND BACKGROUND TO INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS REGIME
1. Human Rights Concepts and Discourse
2. The Human Rights Regime: Background and Birth
PART B. NORMATIVE FOUNDATION OF INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS
3. Civil and Political Rights
4. Economic and Social Rights
5. National Security, Terrorism and the Law of Armed Conflict
PART C. RIGHTS, DUTIES AND DILEMMAS OF UNIVERSALISM
6. Rights or Duties as Primary Organizing Concepts
7. Conflict in Culture, Tradition and Practices: Challenges to Universalism
PART D. INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS ORGANIZATIONS
8. The United Nations Human Rights System
9. Treaty Bodies: The ICCPR Human Rights Committee
10. Fact-finding
11. Regional Arrangements
PART E. STATES AS PROTECTORS AND ENFORCERS OF HUMAN RIGHTS
12. Vertical Interpenetration: International Human Rights Law within States' Legal and Political Orders
13. Horizontal Interpenetration: Transnational Influence and Enforcement of Human Rights
14. Institutional Design and Compliance
PART F. CURRENT TOPICS
15. Massive Human Rights Tragedies: Prosecutions and Truth Commissions
16. Non-state Actors and Human Rights
17. Human Rights, Development and Climate Change
