Human rights in the world community issues and action

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Includes filmography.

Human rights : concept and content / Burns H. Weston -- "Framing the project" of international human rights law : reflections on the dysfunctional "family" of the Universal Declaration / Anna Grear -- Capabilities, human rights, and the Universal Declaration / Martha C. Nussbaum -- Universalism versus cultural relativism : an appeal for respectful decision-making / Burns H. Weston -- Globalization and human rights / Robert McCorquodale and Richard Fairbrother -- Human rights in the twenty-first century : take a walk on the dark side / Ratna Kapur -- Toward a new sociology of rights : a genealogy of "buried bodies" of citizenship and human rights / Margaret R. Somers and Christopher N. J. Roberts -- Genocide / Claudia Card -- Law, otherness, and human trafficking / Jonathan Todres -- Torture and positive law / Jeremy Waldron -- Civil rights / Richard B. Lillich -- Equality and non-discrimination / Daniel Moeckli -- Racism : a threat to global peace / Ineke van der Valk -- International human rights and body politics / Fiona Beveridge and Siobhan Mullally -- Borders, boundaries, and citizenship / Seyla Benhabib -- Another step toward indivisibility : key features of violations of economic, social, and cultural rights / Scott Leckie -- The new discourse of labor rights : from social to fundamental rights? / Judy Fudge -- The right to health : key objectives, themes, and interventions / Paul Hunt -- Food sovereignty : a new rights framework for food and nature / Hannah Wittman -- The right to education and to human rights education / Richard Pierre Claude and Felisa L. Tibbitts -- Culture as an activity and human right / Cindy Holder -- On fragile architecture : the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in the context of human rights / Karen Engle -- The right to development : the politics and polemics of power and resistance / Bonny Ibhawoh -- Do human rights help or hinder environmental protection? / Conor Gearty -- Peace : a sacred right / Douglas Roche -- What has become of the emerging right to democratic governance? / Susan Marks -- Human rights : prescription and enforcement / Burns H. Weston -- How is international human rights law enforced? / Harold Hongju Koh -- Human rights as myth and ceremony? Reevaluating the effectiveness of human rights treaties, 1981-2007 / Wade M. Cole -- The United Nations and human rights / Stephen P. Marks -- Breakthroughs, burdens, and backlash : what future for regional human rights systems? / Dinah L. Shelton -- Searching for a jurisprudence of conscience : international criminal accountability and humanitarian intervention / Richard A. Falk -- Human rights accountability in domestic courts : corporations and extraterritoriality / Anna Grear and Burns H. Weston -- What do human rights NGOs do? / Richard Pierre Claude -- International law's invisible hand and the future of corporate accountability for violations of human rights / Penelope Simons -- The human right to revolution / Jordan J. Paust -- American exceptionalism and human rights / Michael Ignatieff -- Corporations, human rights, and the age of globalization : another look at the "dark side" in the twenty-first century / Anna Grear -- Citizenship and human rights in the age of globalization / Tony Evans.