International human rights

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Case Studies -- List of Problems -- List of Tables -- Acronyms -- Acknowledgments -- Preface: A Note to the Reader -- Part One: History and Theory -- 1. Human Rights in Global Politics: Historical Perspective -- 1. The Emergence of International Human Rights Norms -- 2. The Universal Declaration -- 3. The Covenants -- 4. The 1970s: From Standard Setting to Monitoring -- 5. The 1980s: Further Growth and Institutionalization -- 6. The 1990s: Consolidating Progress and Acting Against Genocide -- 7. Human Rights in the Twenty-First Century -- 8. The Global Human Rights Regime -- Discussion Questions -- Suggested Readings -- 2. Theories of Human Rights -- 1. Rights in General -- 2. Human Rights in Particular -- 3. The Source or Justification of Human Rights -- 4. Equal Concern and Respect -- 5. The Unity of Human Rights -- 6. Duties and Duty-Bearers of Human Rights -- 7. Human Rights and Related Practices -- 8. Sovereignty and International Society -- 9. Three Models of International Human Rights -- 10. The Realist Challenge to Human Rights -- Problem 1: Democracy and Human Rights -- Discussion Questions -- Suggested Readings -- 3. The Relative Universality of Human Rights -- 1. Universality and Relativity -- 2. International Legal Universality -- 3. Overlapping Consensus Universality -- 4. Functional Universality -- 5. Anthropological or Historical Relativity -- 6. Cultural Relativism -- 7. Universal Rights, Not Identical Practices -- 8. Universalism Without Imperialism -- 9. The Relative Universality of Human Rights -- Problem 2: Hate Speech -- Problem 3: Discrimination Based on Sexual Orientation -- Discussion Questions -- Suggested Readings -- 4. The Unity of Human Rights -- 1. Interdependent and Interrelated Rights -- 2. The Indivisibility of Human Rights

"International Human Rights studies the ways in which states and other international actors have addressed human rights since the end of World War II. This unique textbook features substantial attention to the domestic politics of human rights, as well as an extensive emphasis on theory. The thoroughly updated fifth edition brings the theories and legal issues related to human rights into sharper focus with a streamlined eleven-chapter organization, separate treatments of rights-based theories and international relations theories, and updated case studies. International Human Rights allows readers to understand how and why human rights are violated, what international action can do to address these violations, and why human rights remain such a small part of international relations"--