Human Rights: Politics and Practice

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Description
This second edition of Human Rights: Politics and Practice provides a comprehensive overview of human rights that introduces students to a range of theoretical issues and practical approaches. Bringing together leading international experts on human rights, this expanded, fully revised, and updated edition is ideal for students of human rights at undergraduate and postgraduate level.
New to this edition:
•    A new chapter on feminist and activist approaches to human rights
•    An expanded chapter on measurement, introducing cutting-edge technologies
•    More treatment of controversial issues including group rights and social and economic rights
•    Greater discussion of future directions and challenges for human rights
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Contents
INTRODUCTION: HUMAN RIGHTS IN POLITICS AND PRACTICE
Why Human Rights?
The Politics of Human Rights
The Practice of Human Rights
Human Rights as an Object of Enquiry
About this Book
PART I HUMAN RIGHTS AND POLITICS
1   NORMATIVE AND THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS OF HUMAN RIGHTS
Introduction
The Emergence of Rights Language
Modern Human Rights
Types of Human Rights: Liberty and Welfare Rights
Group Rights
Human Rights as a Political Project
Conclusion
2   FEMINIST AND ACTIVIST APPROACHES TO HUMAN RIGHTS 
Introduction
Cultural Relativism and Universal Human Rights
Feminist and Activist Approaches to Human Rights
Conclusion
3   HUMAN RIGHTS IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
Introduction
Theoretical Issues and Context
Key Controversies
Findings: Human Rights and State Practice
Conclusion
4   HUMAN RIGHTS IN INTERNATIONAL LAW
Introduction
Historical Evolution of International Human Rights Law
Sources of International Human Rights Law
Monitoring and Enforcing International Human Rights Law
Conclusion
5   HUMAN RIGHTS IN COMPARATIVE POLITICS
Introduction
The Logic of Comparison
The Sources of Human Rights Violations
Internalizing Human Rights
Domestic-International Linkages
Conclusion
6   SOCIOLOGICAL AND ANTHROPOLOGICAL APPROACHES
Introduction
Sociology of Human Rights
Anthropology of Human Rights
A Common Thread: The Social Construction of Rights
Conclusion
7   CONTEMPORARY CRITIQUES OF HUMAN RIGHTS
Introduction
Human Rights and the Legal Subject
The Rise of Human Rights
Human Rights and International Intervention
Human Rights and the Search for Meaning Conclusion
PART II    HUMAN RIGHTS IN PRACTICE
8   POLITICAL DEMOCRACY AND STATE REPRESSION
Introduction
Understanding the Democracy—Repression Nexus
Case Study: Democracy and Repression in the United States: A Peculiar
Story of African American Persecution and Freedom
The Path to Peace: Directions for Future Research Conclusion
9  GLOBAL CIVIL SOCIETY AND HUMAN RIGHTS
Introduction
What is GCS?
Case Study: GCS as Paradigm-Shifters: Economic and Social Rights
Case Study: GCS as Lawmakers: Establishment of the International Criminal Court
Case Study: GCS as Human Rights Monitors: The East Timor Solidarity Movement
Conclusion
10   HUMAN RIGHTS AND POLITICS IN DEVELOPMENT
Introduction
Development and the Struggles for Human Rights
The Right to Development (RTD)
Human Rights-Based Approach to Development (HRBA)
Case Study: The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and Human Rights
Conclusion
11   ECONOMIC GLOBALIZATION AND HUMAN RIGHTS
Introduction
Economic Globalization and Government Respect for Human Rights:
Two Opposing Views
Globalization and Human Rights: Examining the Empirical Results
Case Study: Do MNCs Invest in Human Rights?
Data and Research Design
Findings Conclusion
12   CHILDREN'S HUMAN RIGHTS ADVOCACY
Introduction
International Children's Rights
Special Challenges of Children's Rights
Constructing and Reconstructing Childhood
From Universal Development to Relative Development Models
Case Study: Punishing Childhoods
Conclusion
13   HUMAN RIGHTS AND FORCED MIGRATION
Introduction
Assessing the Problem
The Problem of Defining Refugees
The UNHCR, Human Rights, and the International Refugee Regime
Case Study: Forced Displacement in Myanmar
The Way Forward: The Need for New Alliances and New Actors
Conclusion
14   INDIGENOUS PEOPLES HUMAN RIGHTS PAUL
Introduction
Who are Indigenous Peoples According to International Law?
Centuries of Ambivalence about the Recognition of Indigenous Peoples
The United Nations and Indigenous Group Rights
Case Study: Indigenous Peoples and Climate Change
Reconciling Indigenous Self-Determination with State Sovereignty?
Conclusion
15   TRAFFICKING FOR SEXUAL EXPLOITATION   
Introduction
Definitions of Human Trafficking
The Anti-White Slavery Movement and the Rise in International Consciousness
about the Traffic in Women
Origins of the Contemporary Ami-Trafficking Movement
The Ascendancy of Trafficking as a Global Issue in the 1990s
Case Study: Human Trafficking in the United States Conclusion
16  GENOCIDE AND HUMAN RIGHTS
Introduction
The Origins of the Concept of 'Genocide'
Theories of Genocide
Case Studies: Rwanda and Darfur
Rwanda
Darfur
Conclusion
17   HUMANITARIAN INTERVENTION
Introduction
Evolving Concepts
Military Intervention
Obstacles to Effectiveness Unintended Consequences
Case Study: Bosnia
Conclusion
18   TORTURE
Introduction
Torture in Western History
How to Make a Torturer
Case Study: Ticking Bomb Torture
Putting an End to Torture: New Developments and High Promise
Conclusion
19   TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE
Introduction
Retributive Justice
Restorative Justice
Reparative Justice
Putting Transitional Justice into Practice
Case Study: Uganda
Conclusion
PART III    THE FUTURE OF HUMAN RIGHTS
20   THE FUTURE OF HUMAN RIGHTS
Introduction
|Defending Human Rights Extending Human Rights Achieving Human Rights Conclusion
21   MEASURING AND MONITORING HUMAN RIGHTS
Introduction
The Purpose of Measuring Human Rights
Challenges to Measuring Human Rights|
Types of Human Rights Measures
Conclusion
22   THE ENVIRONMENT
Introduction
An Environmental Human Right?
Problems of Compatibility
Implementing Environmental Human Rights?
Problems with Environmental Human Rights?
Case Studies: Climate Change, Development Projects, and Environmental Refugees
Human Rights and Environmental Sustainability
Conclusion
Appendix I Universal Declaration of Human Rights|
Appendix 2 International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
Appendix 3 International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
Glossary
References
Index
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Author Details
Michael Goodhart is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Pittsburgh.
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