The development of international human rights law
By: edited by David Weissbrodt, Fionnuala D. Ní Aoláin, Mary Rumsey, all at University of Minnesota, USA
Series: The library of essays on international human rights law -- volume I
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Farnham, Surrey, England
Language: eng
Number of pages: 527
ISBN-13: 9781409441298
Subjects: Human rights
Notes: "Volume I."

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Origins : the rise and fall of natural rights / Michael Freeman; title: Introduction : the human rights idea / Louis Henkin; title: Islam and human rights : beyond the universality debate / Abdullahi A. An-Naʻim; title: Women's rights as human rights : toward a re-vision of human rights / Charlotte Bunch; title: The road to San Francisco : the revival of the human rights idea in the twentieth century / Jan Herman Burgers; title: World War Two and the Universal Declaration / Johannes Morsink; title: The Charter of the United Nations : a commentary / Eibe H. Riedel and Jan-Michael Arend; title: Cultural relativism and universal human rights / Jack Donnelly; title: Savages, victims, and saviors : the metaphors of human rights / Makau Mutua; title: What's wrong with Chinese rights : toward a theory of rights with Chinese characteristics / R.P. Peerenboom; title: The past and future of the separation of human rights into categories / Stephen P. Marks.; title: The importance of democracy / Amartya Sen; title: Freedom from want : how can we make indivisibility more than a mere slogan? / William A. Schabas; title: The Four Freedoms turn 70 / Michael H. Posner; title: Procedures for the implementation of economic, social, and cultural rights / David Weissbrodt; title: The normative context of human rights criticism : treaty ramifications and UN mechanisms / Ann Marie Clark; title: The psychology of bystanders, perpetrators, and heroic helpers / Ervin Staub; title: The status of human rights NGOs / Michael H. Posner and Candy Whittome; title: Transnational advocacy networks and the social construction of legal rules / Kathryn Sikkink; title: The role of non-governmental organizations in international human rights standard-setting : a prerequisite of democracy / Theo van Boven; title: The evolving international human rights system / Thomas Burgenthal; title: Conjuring up new human rights : a proposal for quality control / Philip Alston; title: Introduction / Oren Gross and Fionnuala Ní Aoláin.