International human rights in context : law, politics, morals : text and materials

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ISBN	9780199279425 (pbk.)
Call Number	K3240 S822 2007
Author	Steiner, Henry J.
Title	International human rights in context : law, politics, morals : text and materials / Henry J. Steiner, Philip Alston and Ryan Goodman
Imprint	Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2007.
Physical	xxxix, 1492 p. ; 25 cm.
General Note	Includes index.
Contents Note	Human rights concepts and discourse --The human rights movement: background and birth --Civil and political rights --Economic and social rights --National security, terrorism and limitations on human rights --Rights or duties as organizing concepts --Conflict in culture, tradition and practices: challenges to universalism --Design and functions of international institutions, and issues of sovereignty --The United Nations human rights system --Treaty bodies: The ICCPR Human Rights Committee --Regional arrangements --Vertical interpenetration: international human rights law within states' legal and political orders --Horizontal interpenetration : transnational influence and enforcement of human rights --Massive human rights tragedies: prosecutions and truth commissions --Non-state actors and human rights --Human rights, development and climate change.
Subject	Human rights
Subject	Human rights--Moral and ethical aspects
Coorperative Author	Alston, Philip
Coorperative Author	Goodman, Ryan
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