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Product details:

• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 019927942X
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0199279425
• Author: Henry J. Steiner, Philip Alston, Ryan Goodman

This widely acclaimed interdisciplinary coursebook presents a diverse range of carefully edited primary and secondary materials alongside extensive text, editorial commentary, and study questions. International Human Rights in Context, Third Edition, thoroughly covers the basic characteristics of international law; evolution of the human rights movement; civil, political, economic, and social rights; the humanitarian laws of war; globalization; self-determination; women’s rights; universalism and cultural relativism; intergovernmental and nongovernmental institutions; implementation and enforcement; internal application of human rights norms; and the spread of constitutionalism.

Table contents:

1. Human rights concepts and discourse
2. The human rights movement: background and birth
3. Civil and political rights
4. Economic and social rights
5. National security, terrorism, and limitations on human rights
6. Rights or duties as primary organizing concepts
7. Conflicts in culture, tradition and practices: challenge to universalism
8. Design and functions of International institutions, and issues of sovereignty
9. The United Nations human rights system
10. Treaty bodies: the ICCPR Human Rights Committee
11. Regional arrangements
12. Vertical interpenetration: transnational influence and enforcement of human rights
13. Horizontal interpenetration: transnational influence and enforcement of human rights
14. Massive human rights tragedies: prosecutions and truth commissions
15. Non-state actors and human rights
16. Human rights, development and climate change

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