International Human Rights

Description: International Human Rights is the definitive work on the subject area providing its reader with a comprehensive analysis of this wide and diverse subject area. A successor to the widely acclaimed International Human Rights in Context, this book is written by Philip Alston and Ryan Goodman who are both world-leading human rights scholars. They have chosen a wide selection of materials from primary and secondary materials to demonstrate and illuminate key themes and carefully guide the reader through each extract with thoughtful and lucid commentary.

Review: The most stimulating book that I know of in the field of human rights. Georges Abi-Saab, Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva ...it is clearly and accessibly written and provides an excellent balance between commentary and analysis. The Student Law Journal ... imaginative and stimulating materials with thought-provoking commentary... a wonderful teaching tool, as well as a valuable starting point for research. Hilary Charlesworth, Australian National University

Contents: 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 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. International Human Rights 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. Measuring and Evaluating Human Rights Performance ; 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