International Human Rights The Successor to International Human Rights in Context : Law, Politics and Morals

International Human Rights is the definitive work on the subject area providing its reader with a comprehensive analysis of this wide and diverse subject area. A successor to the widely acclaimed International Human Rights in Context, this book is written by Philip Alston and Ryan Goodman who are both world-leading human rights scholars. They have chosen a wide selection of materials from primary and secondary materials to demonstrate and illuminate key themes and carefully guide the reader through each extract with thoughtful and lucid commentary.

1 - Human rights Concepts and Discourse
2 - The Human Rights Regime: Background and Birth
3 - Civil and Political Rights
4 - Economic and Social Rights
5 - National Security, Terrorism and the Law of Armed Conflict
6 - Rights or Duties as Organizing Concepts
7 - Conflict in Culture, Tradition and Practices: Challenges to Universalism
8 - The United Nations Human Rights System
9 - Treaty Bodies: The ICCPR Human Rights Committee
10 - International Human Rights Fact-Finding
11 - Regional Arrangements
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
15 - Massive Human Rights Tragedies: Prosecutions and Truth Commissions
16 - Non-State Actors and Human Rights
17 - Human Rights, Development and Climate Change

Philip Alston is John Norton Pomeroy Professor of Law and Director of the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice at New York University School of Law Professor Ryan Goodman is Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz Professor of Law at New York University School of Law