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Alston Philip

International human rights : The successor to international human rights in context - Oxford Oxford University Press 2013 - 1580p xxix

able of Contents
PART A INTRODUCTORY NOTIONS AND BACKGROUND TO INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS REGIME
1:Human rights Concepts and Discourse
2:The Human Rights Regime: Background and Birth
PART B NORMATIVE FOUNDATION OF INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS
3:Civil and Political Rights
4:Economic and Social Rights
5:National Security, Terrorism and the Law of Armed Conflict
PART C RIGHTS, DUTIES AND DILEMMAS OF UNIVERSALISM
6:Rights or Duties as Organizing Concepts
7:Conflict in Culture, Tradition and Practices: Challenges to Universalism
PART D INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS ORGANIZATIONS
8:The United Nations Human Rights System
9:Treaty Bodies: The ICCPR Human Rights Committee
10:International Human Rights Fact-Finding
11:Regional Arrangements
PART E STATES AS PROTECTORS AND ENFORCERS OF HUMAN RIGHTS
12:Vertical Interpenetration: International Human Rights Law Within States' Legal and Political Orders
13:Horizontal Interpenetration: Transnational Influence and Enforcement of Human Rights
14:Measuring and Evaluating Human Rights Performance
PART F CURRENT TOPICS
15:Massive Human Rights Tragedies: Prosecutions and Truth Commissions
16:Non-State Actors and Human Rights
17:Human Rights, Development and Climate Change

ISBN: 9780199578726

Subjects--Topical Terms:
1.International Human Rights - Law2.International Human Rights - Politics3.International Human Rights - Morals

Dewey Class. No.: 341.481000 / ALS-2