Realizing Human Rights: Moving from Inspiration to Impact

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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. Front Matter....Pages i-xxviii Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Human Rights: Ideology and Aspiration, Reality and Prospect....Pages 3-38 Human Rights: Not Merely an Internal Affair....Pages 39-47 The American Road to a Human Rights Policy....Pages 49-61 Opening Totalitarian Societies to the Outside World: A View from Russia....Pages 63-73 Front Matter....Pages 75-75 Human Rights in Europe....Pages 77-109 The Inter-American System of Protection: Its Contributions to the International Law of Human Rights....Pages 111-142 The Construction of the African Human Rights System: Prospects and Pitfalls....Pages 143-166 Human Rights in Pakistan: A System in the Making....Pages 167-193 Advancing the Cause of Human Rights: The Need for Justice and Accountability....Pages 195-221 Front Matter....Pages 223-223 Human Rights Organizations: A New Force for Social Change....Pages 225-248 Democracy and Human Rights: An Argument for Convergence....Pages 249-263 Diplomacy with a Cause: Human Rights in U.S. Foreign Policy....Pages 265-289 Economic Sanctions and Human Rights....Pages 291-308 Human Rights and Humanitarian Intervention in the Twenty-First Century....Pages 309-320 Human Rights and Warfare: An Ounce of Prevention Is Worth a Pound of Cure....Pages 321-336 “Conscience Trigger”: The Press and Human Rights....Pages 337-350 Front Matter....Pages 351-351 The Challenges Ahead: Analysis and Integration....Pages 353-361 Back Matter....Pages 362-370