The global struggle for human rights : universal principles in world politics / Debra L. DeLaet.
2006
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Title
The global struggle for human rights : universal principles in world politics / Debra L. DeLaet.
Published
Belmont, CA : Thomson/Wadsworth, [2006]
Copyright
©2006
Call Number
JC571 .D387 2006
ISBN
0534635725
Description
xvi, 248 pages ; 24 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)60337537
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents
Introduction
1
Why Study Human Rights?
1
State Sovereignty and Human Rights
3
Human Rights at the Dawn of the Twenty-First Century: The Gap between Rhetoric and Reality
4
Organization of the Book
8
Part I
Human Rights in Theory and Law
1
The Contested Meaning of Human Rights
10
The Political Nature of Human Rights
10
Defining the Concept of Human Rights
11
The Philosophical Origins and Sources of Human Rights
15
Defining and Categorizing Human Rights in Practice
19
Conclusions
23
Discussion Questions
24
Web Resources
24
2
The Development of International Human Rights Law
25
Does International Human Rights Law Matter?
25
The Historical Foundations of International Human Rights Law
26
The United Nations Core of International Human Rights Law
28
The Distinction between Human Rights Law and Humanitarian Law
34
Feminist Critiques of International Human Rights Law
38
Sexual Orientation Discrimination and International Human Rights Law
40
Conclusions
41
Discussion Questions
42
Web Resources
43
3
Are Human Rights Universal?
44
Defining Universalism and Relativism
44
Are Human Rights a Western Construct?
46
Feminist Perspectives on Universalism and Relativism
50
Case Study: Female Genital Mutilation or Female Circumcision?
52
Case Study: Male Genital Mutilation or Male Circumcision?
55
Conclusions
59
Discussion Questions
60
Part II
Human Rights in Practice
4
Civil and Political Rights in a World of Sovereign States
62
Civil and Political Rights and State Sovereignty in Tension
62
Case Study: National Security and Terrorism
65
Case Study: Freedom of Movement, Civil Rights, and Sovereignty
71
Conclusions
75
Discussion Questions
76
Web Resources
77
5
Collective Rights in a World of Sovereign States
78
Human Rights as Collective Rights
78
Collective Rights and Individual Rights
80
Case Study: Self-Determination
81
Case Study: Genocide
93
Conclusions
98
Discussion Questions
99
Web Resources
100
6
Economic and Social Rights in a World of Sovereign States
102
Economic and Social Rights as Human Rights
102
Economic and Social Rights and State Sovereignty in Tension
103
The Relationship between Economic and Social Rights and Civil and Political Rights
106
Case Study: Human Development and Poverty
108
Case Study: Health and Human Rights
111
Conclusions
116
Discussion Questions
117
Web Resources
118
7
Sexual Equality and Human Rights
119
Sexual Equality as a Human Right
119
Women and Sexual Minorities: Special Rights or Human Rights?
121
Case Study: Violence against Women
124
Case Study: Sex-Specific Abuses of Human Rights during War
127
Case Study: Sexual Orientation Discrimination
129
Conclusions
132
Discussion Questions
133
Web Resources
134
Part III
Human Rights and the Quest for Justice
8
Promoting Human Rights From the Top Down
135
Implementing Human Rights through International Organizations and States
135
The United Nations Human Rights System
136
Regional Human Rights Systems
142
States, Foreign Policy, and Human Rights
146
Case Study: U.S. Foreign Policy and American Exceptionalism
147
Humanitarian Intervention
150
Case Study: Humanitarian Intervention in Kosovo
153
Conclusions
155
Discussion Questions
157
Web Resources
158
9
Punitive Justice and Human Rights
159
Punitive Justice as a Response to Human Rights Abuses
159
Trials and Punitive Justice
160
Trials In Historical Perspective: The Development of Ad Hoc Tribunals
162
Ad Hoc Tribunals after World War II: Nuremberg and Tokyo
164
The International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia
167
The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda
170
The International Criminal Court
173
Prosecuting International Crimes in Domestic Courts
176
Conclusions
181
Discussion Questions
185
Web Resources
185
10
Restorative Justice and Human Rights
186
Restorative Justice as a Response to Human Rights Abuses
186
Truth Commissions
188
Reparations
193
Apologies
198
Conclusions
201
Discussion Questions
202
Web Resources
203
11
Promoting Human Rights From the Bottom Up
204
Mobilizing Support for Human Rights in a World of Sovereign States
204
Non-State Actors and the Global Struggle for Human Rights
206
Case Study: Transnational Corporations and Human Rights
210
Case Study: Health and Human Rights Advocacy
213
Conclusions
216
Discussion Questions
217
Web Resources
218
Conclusions
219
Notes
223
Index
237