Human rights in crisis
By: edited by Alice Bullard.
Contributors: Bullard, Alice.
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Aldershot, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9780754670285
Subjects: Human rights; Human rights advocacy; Torture (International law); Women's rights; War on Terrorism, 2001-
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Human rights law, executive powers, and torture on the post-9/11 era / Lilsa Hajjar; title: Human rights advocates in the post-9/11 era / Ashley Barr; title: The body counts : civilian casualties and the crisis of human rights / Amy Ross; title: International human rights law : struggling between apology and utopia / Richard Burchill; title: Women's human rights in the twenty-first century : crisis, challenge, and opportunity / Marsha A. Freeman; title: The Center for Justice & Accountability : holding human rights abusers responsible in the United States and abroad / Matt Eisenbrandt; title: Human trafficking and migration / Dina Francesca Haynes; title: Doctors Without Borders and the moral economy of pharmaceuticals / Peter Redfield.