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1. Introduction to international human rights -- Treaties. 2. Ratification and implementation of treaties : the covenant on economic, social and cultural rights -- 3. State reporting under international human rights treaties (United States) -- 4. State reporting under international human rights treaties (Iran); cultural relativism -- Gross violations. 5. What U.N. procedures are available for violations of human rights? ECOSOC resolutions 1235 and 1503; thematic procedures -- 6. Collective and unilateral humanitarian intervention -- 7. Can human rights violations be punished and victims assured redress? -- 8. International human rights fact-finding -- 9. How can the U.S. government influence respect for human rights in other countries? -- Use of adjudicative remedies. 10. How are pronouncements of human rights in international instruments interpreted? The Baby Boy case in the Inter-American Commission -- 11. What can U.S. lawyers learn from the European human rights system? -- 12. U.S. adjudicative remedies for violations occurring outside the U.S. : Filartiga and its progeny -- 13. U.S. remedies for human rights violations within the U.S. : alien children in detention -- 14. Refugee and asylum law; jurisprudence of human rights; cultural relativism -- Causes of human rights violations. 15. What seem to be the causes of human rights violations and how might knowledge as to causation be useful?

THIS ARTICLE FOCUSES ON U.N. HUMAN RIGHTS LAW. IT EXAMINES OTHER U.N. TREATIES THAT HELP MINORITIES AND REVIEWS THE U.N. DECLARATION ON THE RIGHTS OF PERSONS BELONGING TO NATIONAL OR ETHNIC, RELIGIOUS AND LINGUISTIC MINORITIES. IT EXAMINES HOW TO CHOOSE THE BEST INSTRUMENT AND WHETHER OR NOT THE TREATIES ARE ENFORCED.

Examines use and enforcement of UN treaties that help minorities and of the UN 1992 Declaration on Minority Rights. UN Declaration on the Rights of Persons Belonging to National or Ethnic, Religious and Linguistic Minorities.