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| Notes on Contributors | |
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| Guided Tour of the Textbook Features | |
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| Guided Tour of the Online Resource Centre | |
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| Introduction: Human Rights in Politics and Practice | |
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| Why Human Rights? | |
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| The Politics of Human Rights | |
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| The Practice of Human Rights | |
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| Human Rights as an Object of Enquiry | |
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| About this Book | |
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| Human Rights and Politics | |
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| Normative and Theoretical Foundations of Human Rights | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Emergence of Rights Language | |
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| Modern Human Rights | |
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| Types of Human Rights: Liberty and Welfare Rights | |
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| Group Rights | |
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| Human Rights as a Political Project | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Feminist and Activist Approaches to Human Rights | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Cultural Relativism and Universal Human Rights | |
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| Feminist and Activist Approaches to Human Rights | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Human Rights in International Relations | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Theoretical Issues and Context | |
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| Key Controversies | |
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| Findings: Human Rights and State Practice | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Human Rights in International Law | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Historical Evolution of International Human Rights Law | |
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| Sources of International Human Rights Law | |
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| Monitoring and Enforcing International Human Rights Law | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Human Rights in Comparative Politics | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Logic of Comparison | |
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| The Sources of Human Rights Violations | |
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| Internalizing Human Rights | |
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| Domestic-International Linkages | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Sociological and Anthropological Approaches | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Sociology of Human Rights | |
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| Anthropology of Human Rights | |
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| A Common Thread: The Social Construction of Rights | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Contemporary Critiques of Human Rights | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Human Rights and the Legal Subject | |
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| The Rise of Human Rights | |
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| Human Rights and International Intervention | |
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| Human Rights and the Search for Meaning | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Human Rights in Practice | |
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| Political Democracy and State Repression | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Understanding the Democracy-Repression Nexus | |
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| Case Study: Democracy and Repression in the United States: A Peculiar Story of African American Persecution and Freedom | |
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| The Path to Peace: Directions for Future Research | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Global Civil Society and Human Rights | |
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| Introduction | |
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| What is GCS? | |
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| Case Study: GCS as Paradigm-Shifters: Economic and Social Rights | |
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| Case Study: GCS as Lawmakers: Establishment of the International Criminal Court | |
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| Case Study: GCS as Human Rights Monitors: The East Timor Solidarity Movement | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Human Rights and Politics in Development | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Development and the Struggles for Human Rights | |
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| The Right to Development (RTD) | |
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| Human Rights-Based Approach to Development (HRBA) | |
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| Case Study: The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and Human Rights | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Economic Globalization and Human Rights | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Economic Globalization and Government Respect for Human Rights: Two Opposing Views | |
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| Globalization and Human Rights: Examining the Empirical Results | |
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| Case Study: Do MNCs Invest in Human Rights? | |
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| Data and Research Design | |
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| Findings | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Children's Human Rights Advocacy | |
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| Introduction | |
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| International Children's Rights | |
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| Special Challenges of Children's Rights | |
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| Constructing and Reconstructing Childhood | |
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| From Universal Development to Relative Development Models | |
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| Case Study: Punishing Childhoods | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Human Rights and Forced Migration | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Assessing the Problem | |
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| The Problem of Defining Refugees | |
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| The UNHCR, Human Rights, and the International Refugee Regime | |
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| Case Study: Forced Displacement in Myanmar | |
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| The Way Forward: The Need for New Alliances and New Actors | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Indigenous Peoples Human Rights | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Who are Indigenous Peoples According to International Law? | |
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| Centuries of Ambivalence about the Recognition of Indigenous Peoples | |
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| The United Nations and Indigenous Group Rights | |
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| Case Study: Indigenous Peoples and Climate Change | |
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| Reconciling Indigenous Self-Determination with State Sovereignty? | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Trafficking for Sexual Exploitation | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Definitions of Human Trafficking | |
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| The Anti-White Slavery Movement and the Rise in International Consciousness about the Traffic in Women | |
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| Origins of the Contemporary Anti-Trafficking Movement | |
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| The Ascendancy of Trafficking as a Global Issue in the 1990s | |
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| Case Study: Human Trafficking in the United States | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Genocide and Human Rights | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Origins of the Concept of 'Genocide' | |
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| Theories of Genocide | |
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| Case Studies: Rwanda and Darfur | |
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| Rwanda | |
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| Darfur | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Humanitarian Intervention | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Evolving Concepts | |
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| Military Intervention | |
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| Obstacles to Effectiveness | |
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| Unintended Consequences | |
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| Case Study: Bosnia | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Torture | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Torture in Western History | |
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| How to Make a Torturer | |
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| Case Study: Ticking Bomb Torture | |
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| Putting an End to Torture: New Developments and High Promise | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Transitional Justice | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Retributive Justice | |
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| Restorative Justice | |
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| Reparative Justice | |
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| Putting Transitional Justice into Practice | |
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| Case Study: Uganda | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| The Future of Human Rights | |
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| The Future of Human Rights | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Defending Human Rights | |
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| Extending Human Rights | |
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| Achieving Human Rights | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Measuring and Monitoring Human Rights | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Purpose of Measuring Human Rights | |
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| Challenges to Measuring Human Rights | |
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| Types of Human Rights Measures | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| The Environment | |
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| Introduction | |
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| An Environmental Human Right? | |
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| Problems of Compatibility | |
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| Implementing Environmental Human Rights? | |
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| Problems with Environmental Human Rights? | |
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| Case Studies: Climate Change, Development Projects, and Environmental Refugees | |
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| Human Rights and Environmental Sustainability | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Universal Declaration of Human Rights | |
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| International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights | |
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| international Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights | |
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| Glossary | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |