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Realizing Human Rights

Moving from Inspiration to Impact

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  1. Samantha Power
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  2. Graham Allison
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At the dawn of a new era, this book brings together leading activists, policy-makers and critics to reflect upon fifty years of attempts to improve respect for human rights. Authors include President Jimmy Carter, who helped inject human rights concerns into US policy; Wei Jingsheng, who struggled to do so in China; Louis Henkin, the modern "father" of international law, and Richard Goldstone, the former chief prosecutor for the Yugoslav and Rwandan war crimes tribunals. A half-century since the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights the time is right to assess how policies and actions effect the realization of human rights and to point to new directions and challenges that lie ahead. A must have for everyone in the human rights community and the broader foreign policy community as well as the reader who is increasingly aware of the visibility of human rights concerns on the public stage.

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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxviii
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  2. The Road to the Twenty-First Century

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Human Rights: Ideology and Aspiration, Reality and Prospect

      • Louis Henkin
      Pages 3-38

    3. Human Rights: Not Merely an Internal Affair

      • Wei Jingsheng
      Pages 39-47

    4. The American Road to a Human Rights Policy

      • Jimmy Carter
      Pages 49-61

    5. Opening Totalitarian Societies to the Outside World: A View from Russia

      • Leonid Romankov
      Pages 63-73

  3. Human Rights Enforcement: State and Individual Accountability

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 75-75
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    2. Human Rights in Europe

      • Shirley Williams
      Pages 77-109

    3. The Inter-American System of Protection: Its Contributions to the International Law of Human Rights

      • Juan E. Méndez
      Pages 111-142

    4. The Construction of the African Human Rights System: Prospects and Pitfalls

      • Makau Mutua
      Pages 143-166

    5. Human Rights in Pakistan: A System in the Making

      • Asma Jahangir
      Pages 167-193

    6. Advancing the Cause of Human Rights: The Need for Justice and Accountability

      • Richard J. Goldstone
      Pages 195-221

  4. Human Rights Policy Ideas, Institutions, and Instruments

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 223-223
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    2. Human Rights Organizations: A New Force for Social Change

      • Kenneth Roth
      Pages 225-248

    3. Democracy and Human Rights: An Argument for Convergence

      • Morton H. Halperin
      Pages 249-263

    4. Diplomacy with a Cause: Human Rights in U.S. Foreign Policy

      • John Shattuck
      Pages 265-289

    5. Economic Sanctions and Human Rights

      • Aryeh Neier
      Pages 291-308

    6. Human Rights and Humanitarian Intervention in the Twenty-First Century

      • Kofi Annan
      Pages 309-320

    7. Human Rights and Warfare: An Ounce of Prevention Is Worth a Pound of Cure

      • David Hamburg
      Pages 321-336

    8. “Conscience Trigger”: The Press and Human Rights

      • Anna Husarska
      Pages 337-350
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About the authors

LOUIS HENKIN Director of Human Rights Institute at Columbia Law School, USA ANNA HUSARSKA Politics Analyst and New Yorker Correspondent, USA MAKAU MUTYA Director of the Kenya Human Rights Commission MARY ROBINSON UN High Commissioner for Human Rights JOHN SHATTUCK USA Ambassador to the Czech Republic SHIRLEY WILLIAMS British Member of Parliament

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Realizing Human Rights

  • Book Subtitle: Moving from Inspiration to Impact

  • Editors: Samantha Power, Graham Allison

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-03608-7

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2000

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-312-23494-2Published: 30 September 2000

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4039-7311-5Published: 22 May 2006

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-03608-7Published: 27 September 2016

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXVIII, 370

  • Topics: Social Justice, Equality and Human Rights, International Relations, Public Policy, Political Science, Human Rights

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