Research Catalog

Title

International human rights : law, policy, and process.

Author

Weissbrodt, David S.

Publication

Cincinnati, Ohio : Anderson Pub. Co., c2001.

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Additional Authors

• Fitzpatrick, Joan (Joan M.)
• Newman, Frank C.

Description

xlix, 1150 p.; 27 cm.

Subject

Human rights

Note

• Rev. ed. of: International human rights / Frank Newman, David Weissbrodt. 2nd ed. 1996.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction to international human rights -- An exercise in treaty-making -- An example of human rights treaty-making : child soldiers -- Ratification and implementation of treaties : the covenant on economic, social and cultural rights -- State reporting under international human rights treaties; cultural relativism -- What U.N. charter-based procedures are available for violations of human rights? -- Humanitarian intervention -- Can human rights violators be held accountable? -- International human rights fact-finding -- How does U.S. foreign policy influence human rights in other countries? -- The Inter-American System and the interpretation and application of human rights instruments -- The European human rights system -- U.S. domestic remedies for human rights violations within the U.S. -- U.S. adjudicative remedies for violations occurring outside the U.S. : Filartiga and its progeny -- Refugee and asylum law : jurisprudence of human rights; cultural relativism revisited -- The ILO and child labor -- What seem to be the causes of human rights violations and how might knowledge as to causation be used? -- Selected international human rights instruments.

ISBN

1583607811

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library