Exploring International Human Rights: Essential Readings

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	2007/303 pages/LC: 2006102357 Sorry. Ebook unavailable. A related title: Debating Human Rights by Daniel P.L. Chong, Human Rights in the Global Political Economy: Critical Processes by Tony Evans, and Human Rights in International Politics by Franke Wilmer

• WHAT ARE HUMAN RIGHTS?
• Introduction—the Editors.
• What Are Human Rights?: Definitions and Typologies of Today's Human Rights Discourse—J. Harrelson-Stephens and R. Callaway..
• What Future for Economic and Social Rights?—D. Beetham.
• Basic Rights—H. Shue.
• The Philosophical Foundations of Human Rights—J.J. Shestack.
• MEASURING HUMAN RIGHTS.
• Introduction—the Editors.
• The Limitations of Using Quantitative Data in Studying Human Rights Abuses—R.J. Goldstein.
• Measuring Human Rights: Some Issues and Options—D.L. Richards.
• The Political Terror Scale—M. Gibney and M. Dalton.
• How Are These Pictures Different?: A Quantitative Comparison of the US State Department and Amnesty International Human Rights Reports, 1976-1995—S.C. Poe, S.C. Carey, and T.C. Vazquez.
• Using the Physical Quality of Life Index to Explore the Level of Subsistence Rights—W.T. Milner and R.L. Callaway.
• INTERNATIONAL LAW AND ORGANIZATIONS IN THE FIGHT FOR HUMAN RIGHTS.
• Introduction—the Editors.
• The Normative and Institutional Evolution of International Human Rights—T. Buergenthal.
• The International Criminal Court Controversy—R.W. Tucker.
• Refugee Flows as Ground for International Action—A. Dowty and G. Loescher.
• Activists Beyond Borders: Advocacy Networks in International Politics—M.E. Keck and K. Sikkink.
• ARE HUMAN RIGHTS UNIVERSAL?
• Introduction—the Editors.
• The Rhetoric of Asian Values—R.L. Callaway.
• Relativism and Universalism in Human Rights: The Case of the Islamic Middle East—F. Halliday.
• American Muslims and a Meaningful Human Rights Discourse in the Aftermath of September 11, 2001—I.Z. Shakir.
• Restraining Universalism: Africanist Perspectives on Cultural Relativism in the Human Rights Discourse—B. Ibhawoh.
• WITNESS TO TORTURE.
• Introduction—the Editors.
• Auschwitz: A Doctor's Eyewitness Account—M. Nyiszli.
• A Cambodian Odyssey—H. Ngor.
• One Day in My Life—B. Sands.
• The Tenth Circle of Hell—R. Hukanovic.
• Machete Season—J. Hatzfeld.
• GENDER-BASED REPRESSION.
• Introduction—the Editors.
• Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy—K. Bales.
• Trafficking in Women's Bodies, Then and Now: The Issue of Military "Comfort Women"—K. Wantanabe.
• Rights of Women Within Islamic Communities—R. Hassan.
• Female Circumcision Comes to America—L. Burstyn.
• CHILDREN AS TARGETS.
• Introduction—the Editors.
• Child Labor as a Human Rights Issue: Efforts, Mistakes, and Solutions —Z.F.K. Arat.
• Child Marriage in Afghanistan and Pakistan—A. Bushell.
• Child Slaves in Modern India: The Bonded Labor Problem—L. Tucker.
• The Sex Trade Industry's Worldwide Exploitation of Children—R.B. Flowers.
• The Political Economy of War-Affected Children—S. Hick.
• GLOBALIZATION AND HUMAN RIGHTS.
• Introduction—the Editors.
• Achieving Human Rights: The Globalization Debate—J. Harrelson-Stephens.
• Globalization and Human Rights—R. McCorquodale and R. Fairbrother.
• The Tragedy of Tauccamarca: A Human Rights Perspective on the Pesticide Poisoning of 24 Children in the Peruvian Andes—E. Rosenthal.
• Strategic Violations: The Outsourcing of Human Rights Abuses—N. Gordon.
• The Singer Solution to Poverty—P. Singer.
• HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE WAR ON TERROR.
• Introduction—the Editors.
• Human Rights Violations as a Catalyst for Terrorist Activity—the Editors.
• Leading by Example?: US Interrogation of Prisoners in the War on Terror —E. Massimino.
• Human Rights Post-September 11—J. Mertus and T. Sajjad.