International Human RightsPART 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. |
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NORMATIVE FOUNDATION OF INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS | 155 |
RIGHTS DUTIES AND DILEMMAS OF UNIVERSALISM | 487 |
INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS ORGANIZATIONS | 683 |
STATES AS PROTECTORS AND ENFORCERS OF HUMAN RIGHTS | 1045 |
CURRENT TOPICS | 1279 |
Documents Supplement | 1547 |
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