Human rights in the world community : issues and action edited by Burns H Weston and Anna Grear

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Includes index.

Human rights : concept and content / Burns H. Weston -- "Framing the project" of international human rights law : reflections on the dysfunctional "family" of the Universal Declaration / Anna Grear -- Capabilities, human rights, and the Universal Declaration / Martha C. Nussbaum -- Universalism versus cultural relativism : an appeal for respectful decision-making / Burns H. Weston -- Globalization and human rights / Robert McCorquodale and Richard Fairbrother -- Human rights in the twenty-first century : take a walk on the dark side / Ratna Kapur -- Toward a new sociology of rights : a genealogy of "buried bodies" of citizenship and human rights / Margaret R. Somers and Christopher N. J. Roberts -- Genocide / Claudia Card -- Law, otherness, and human trafficking / Jonathan Todres -- Torture and positive law / Jeremy Waldron -- Civil rights / Richard B. Lillich -- Equality and non-discrimination / Daniel Moeckli -- Racism : a threat to global peace / Ineke van der Valk -- International human rights and body politics / Fiona Beveridge and Siobhan Mullally -- Borders, boundaries, and citizenship / Seyla Benhabib -- Another step toward indivisibility : key features of violations of economic, social, and cultural rights / Scott Leckie -- The new discourse of labor rights : from social to fundamental rights? / Judy Fudge -- The right to health : key objectives, themes, and interventions / Paul Hunt -- Food sovereignty : a new rights framework for food and nature / Hannah Wittman -- The right to education and to human rights education / Richard Pierre Claude and Felisa L. Tibbitts -- Culture as an activity and human right / Cindy Holder -- On fragile architecture : the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in the context of human rights / Karen Engle -- The right to development : the politics and polemics of power and resistance / Bonny Ibhawoh -- Do human rights help or hinder environmental protection? / Conor Gearty -- Peace : a sacred right / Douglas Roche -- What has become of the emerging right to democratic governance? / Susan Marks -- Human rights : prescription and enforcement / Burns H. Weston -- How is international human rights law enforced? / Harold Hongju Koh -- Human rights as myth and ceremony? Reevaluating the effectiveness of human rights treaties, 1981-2007 / Wade M. Cole -- The United Nations and human rights / Stephen P. Marks -- Breakthroughs, burdens, and backlash : what future for regional human rights systems? / Dinah L. Shelton -- Searching for a jurisprudence of conscience : international criminal accountability and humanitarian intervention / Richard A. Falk -- Human rights accountability in domestic courts : corporations and extraterritoriality / Anna Grear and Burns H. Weston -- What do human rights NGOs do? / Richard Pierre Claude -- International law's invisible hand and the future of corporate accountability for violations of human rights / Penelope Simons -- The human right to revolution / Jordan J. Paust -- American exceptionalism and human rights / Michael Ignatieff -- Corporations, human rights, and the age of globalization : another look at the "dark side" in the twenty-first century / Anna Grear -- Citizenship and human rights in the age of globalization / Tony Evans.

Designed for educational use in international relations, law, political science, economics, and philosophy classes, Human Rights in the World Community treats the full range of human rights issues, including implementation problems and processes involving international, national, and nongovernmental action. Now with online appendices.