Human Rights in The United States: A Dictionary and Documents 2 Volumes
Grey House Publishing Inc
June 1, 2009 750 Pages - SKU: GH2420346
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Countries covered: United States
This two-volume set offers easy to grasp explanations of the basic concepts and laws in the field, with emphasis on human rights in the historical, political, and legal experience of the United States. This indispensable resource surveys the legal protection of human dignity in the United States, examines the sources of human rights norms, cites key legal cases, explains the role of international governmental and non-governmental organizations, and charts global, regional, and UN human rights measures.
- New second edition offers up-to-date data on Guantanamo Detention Centre, immigrant rights, the Torture Bill and many more current event topics
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Comprehensive Introduction places the history of human rights in the United States in an international context
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Details over 300 human rights terms, ranging from asylum and cultural relativism to hate crimes and torture, with a discussion of the significance of the term, examples, and citations of appropriate documents and court decisions
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Provides expanded coverage of over 60 Primary Documents, including conventions, treaties, and protocols related to the most up-to-date international action on ethnic cleansing, freedom of expression and religion, violence against women, and much more
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New Historical Timeline
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Nine Appendices, with additional sources of information
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A comprehensive Bibliography, to expand research on this interesting topic
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Comprehensive Index
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- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- How to Use This Book
- Introduction: The Concept of Human Rights
- Abbreviations
- Dictionary
- Accountability/Accountable
- Advice and Consent of the U.S. Senate
- Affirmative Action
- Aid Conditionality
- Alien Tort Claims Act (ATCA)
- American Convention on Human Rights (ACHR)
- American Declaration on the Rights and Duties of Man (ADHR)
- Amnesty
- Anti-Semitism
- Apartheid
- Arbitrary Arrest/Detention
- Arrest
- Asylum
- Atrocity
- Basic Human Rights
- Bearer
- Bigot(ed)/Bigotry
- Bill of Rights (U.S.)
- Binding
- Breach
- Bricker Amendment
- Broad-mindedness
- Bureau of Human Rights, Democracy, and Labor
- Capital Punishment
- Charter
- Civil Human Rights
- Civil Liberties
- Civil Rights
- Civil Society
- Civil War
- Collateral Damage
- Collective Human Rights
- Collective Punishment
- Command Responsibility
- Commission on Human Rights
- Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe
- Communication/Complaint Procedures
- Complementarity of Judicial Systems
- Compliance with Human Rights Norms
- Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE)
- Conscientious Objection
- Convention
- Convention against Torture, Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CAT)
- Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW)
- Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (CERD)
- Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide
- Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC)
- Corporal Punishment
- Country Reports
- Country-Specific Legislation
- Covenant
- Crimes against Humanity (Aggression)
- Crimes against Peace
- Cruel Treatment or Punishment
- Cultural Human Rights
- Cultural Relativism
- Culture of Human Rights
- Culture of Impunity
- Culture of Peace
- Customary International Law
- Death Penalty
- Declaration(s)
- Declaration of Independence (U.S.)
- Degrading Treatment or Punishment
- Demonize/Demonization
- Deportation
- Derogation/Derogable Human Rights
- Detention
- Disappearance
- Discrimination
- Diversity
- Domestic Remedy
- Double Standard/Dual Standard
- Due Process of Law
- Duty
- Economic Human Rights
- Effective Domestic Remedy
- Entry into Force (EIF)
- Equality/Equality before the Law
- Ethnic Cleansing
- Ethnic Minority
- Excessive Force
- Executive Agreements (EA)
- Executive Orders (EO)
- Exhaustion of Domestic Remedies
- Expropriation
- Extradition
- Extrajudicial Killing
- Fact Finding
- Fair Trial
- Federal Clause
- First Generation Human Rights
- Forced Disappearance
- Foreign Sovereignty Immunity Act
- Forum of Shame
- “Four Freedoms” Roosevelt Speech
- Free and Fair Elections
- Freedom
- Freedom of Expression
- Fundamental Rights/Freedoms
- General Human Rights Legislation
- Geneva Conventions of 1949 (GC)
- Genocide/Genocide Convention
- Grave Breaches
- Gross Human Rights Violation
- Habeas Corpus
- Hard Core Human Rights
- Harkin Amendment
- Hate Crime
- Hate Speech
- Helsinki Final Act of 1975/Helsinki Accords
- High Commissioner for Human Rights
- Holocaust
- Human Dignity
- Humanitarian Intervention
- Humanitarian Law
- Human Rights
- Human Rights Committee
- Human Rights Reports
- Human Rights Violation
- Illegal Alien
- Immunity
- Implementing Legislation
- Impunity
- Inalienable Rights
- Incommunicado Detention
- Independent and Impartial Judiciary
- Indigenous People(s) or Population(s)
- Indiscriminate Attack/Force
- Individual Complaint
- Individual Criminal Responsibility
- Individual Rights
- Inherent Human Rights
- Inhuman Treatment or Punishment
- Inhumane Treatment
- Inter-Governmental Organization
- Internally Displaced Person
- International Bill of Rights
- International Committee of the Red Cross
- International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
- International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights
- International Criminal Court
- International Criminal Law
- International Financial Institution Legislation
- International Human Rights Law
- Interstate Complaint
- Intolerance
- Involuntary Servitude
- Jackson-Vanik Amendment
- Law of Armed Conflict
- Liberty
- Liberty and Security of Person
- Lieber Code
- Limitation
- Link/Linkage
- Massacre
- Methods or Means of Combat
- Minority/Minority Rights
- Monitor
- Most Favored Nation Trading Status
- Multilateral Forum
- National Self-Interest
- Nationalism
- Natural Law
- Nondiscrimination
- Non-Governmental Organization
- Non-Interference with Internal Affairs
- Non-Refoulement
- Non-Self-Executing Treaty
- Norm/Normative
- Nuremberg Charter and Rules
- Nuremberg Principles
- On-Site Investigation/Fact-Finding
- Oppression
- Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe
- Organization of American States
- Perpetrator
- Persecution
- Pluralism
- Police Brutality
- Police State
- Political Asylum
- Political Correctness/Politically Correct
- Political Human Rights
- Political Will
- Preamble
- Pretrial Detention
- Prisoner of Conscience
- Prisoner of War
- Procedural Rights
- Prolonged Arbitrary Detention
- Proportionality
- Protocol
- Public International Law
- Racial Discrimination
- Racism/Racist
- Ratification
- Refugee
- Regional Human Rights System or Regime
- Reparations
- Reports/Reporting
- Reservations, Declarations, and Understandings (RDU’s)
- Reverse Discrimination
- Rule of Law
- Sanctions
- Second Generation Human Rights
- Segregation
- Self-Determination
- Self-Executing Treaty
- Sign/Signatory
- Slavery
- Social Human Rights
- Social Justice
- Soft Law
- Sovereignty
- Sovereignty Proviso
- Special Rapporteur
- Standard-Setting
- State
- State Party
- State Responsibility for Injury to Aliens
- Sub-Commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities
- Substantive Human Rights
- Summary Execution
- Third Generation Human Rights
- Torture
- Torture Victim Protection Act of 1992
- Transparence
- Treaty/International Instrument
- Treaty Monitoring/Supervising Body
- United Nations Charter
- Universal Declaration of Human Rights
- Universal Jurisdiction
- Universality
- Unnecessary Suffering
- War Crimes
- War Crimes Act of 1996
- Women’s Human Rights
- Worldview
- Xenophobia
- Documents
- A Word of Introduction
- U.S. Historical Documents
- 1. Declaration of Independence (U.S.)
- 2. U.S. Constitution, Including the Bill of Rights
- 3. Executive Order 13107 on the Implementation of Human Rights Treaties and Declarations, Issued by President William J. Clinton on December 10, 1998
- U.N. Related Documents
- 1. Charter of the United Nations
- 2. Universal Declaration of Human Rights
- 3. International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR)
- 4. U.S. Ratification of the ICCPR, with Reservations, Declarations, and Understandings
- 5. First Optional Protocol to the ICCPR
- 6. Second Optional Protocol to the ICCPR
- 7. Initial Report of the United States of America to the U.N. Human Rights Committee under the ICCPR
- 8. Consideration of Reports Submitted by States Parties under Article 40 of the ICCPR: Comments (Concluding Observations) of the Human Rights Committee
- 9. General Comments [of the U.N. Human Rights Committee] under Article 40, para. 4 of the ICCPR, General Comment 15(27), 1986, on “The Position of Aliens under the Covenant,” 000
- 10. General Comments [of the U.N. Human Rights Committee] under Article 40, para. 4 of the ICCPR, General Comment 22, 1993, “Freedom of Thought, Conscience, and Religion under Article 18 of the ICCPR,” 000
- 11. General Comments [of the U.N. Human Rights Committee] under Article 40, para 4 of the ICCPR, General Comment 23(27), 1994, “The Rights of Minorities,” 000
- 12. General Comments [of the U.N. Human Rights Committee] under Article 40, para. 4 of the ICCPR, General Comment 24(14), 1994, on “Issues relating to reservations made upon ratification or accession to the Covenant or the Optional Protocols thereto, or in relation to declarations under article 41 of the Covenant,” 000
- 13. International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights
- 14. Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide
- 15. U.S. Reservations, Declarations, and Understandings to the Genocide Convention
- 16. Convention against Torture, Cruel, Inhuman, or Degrading Treatment or Punishment
- 17. U.S. Reservations, Declarations, and Understandings to the Convention against Torture
- 18. U.S. Initial Report to the U.N. Committee against Torture
- 19. Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination
- 20. U.S. Reservations, Declarations, and Understandings to the Racial Discrimination Convention
- 21. Declaration on the Rights of Persons Belonging to National or Ethnic, Religious or Linguistic Minorities
- 22. Draft Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
- 23. Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women
- 24. Convention on the Rights of the Child
- 25. Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees
- 26. Protocol Relating to the Status of Refugees
- 27. Declaration on Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination and Intolerance Based on Religion or Belief
- 28. Declaration on the Right and Responsibility of Individuals, Groups, and Organs of Society to Promote and Protect Universally Recognized Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms
- 29. Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women
- 30. Body of Principles for the Protection of All Persons under Any Form of Detention or Imprisonment
- 31. Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners
- 32. Safeguards Guaranteeing Protection of the Rights of Those Facing the Death Penalty, Administration of Justice
- 33. Report submitted by Mr. Bacre Waly Ndiaye, Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Summary, or Arbitrary Executions, U.N. Commission on Human Rights, on His Mission to the U.S.A., 1997
- 34. Written Intervention by Human Rights Advocates, a Non-Governmental Organization, to the U.N. Commission on Human Rights, Especially Concerning the Death Penalty for Juvenile Offenders
- 35. ”Civil and Political Rights, Including: Freedom of Expression.” Report submitted by Abdelfattah Amor, Special Rapporteur on Religious Intolerance and Discrimination, U.N. Commission on Human Rights, on his mission to the U.S.A., 1998
- 36. ”Violence Against Women” Report submitted by Ms. Radhika Coomaraswamy, Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women, U.N. Commission on Human Rights, on her mission to the U.S.A on the issue of violence against women in state and federal prisons, 1999
- 37. Report submitted to the U.N. Commission on Human Rights by Maurice Glele-Ahanhanzo, Special Rapporteur on Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia, and Related Intolerance, on his fact-finding mission to the U.S.A., 1994
- 38. Response of the U.S. Government to Maurice Glele-Ahanhanzo, Special Rapporteur on Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia, and Related Intolerance, on his factfinding mission to the U.S.A., 1994
- 39. Report of the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, Decisions, and Opinions, Adopted by the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention
- 40. Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action
- 41. U.N. General Assembly Resolution proclaiming the “U.N. Decade for Human Rights Education,” 000
- 42. International Labour Organization Documents
- 43. Convention No.182 concerning the Prohibition and Immediate Action for the
Elimination of the Worst Forms of Child Labour, with U.S. Ratification (Reservations, Declarations, and Understandings)
- 44. Organization of American States Documents
- 45. American Declaration of the Rights and Duties of Man
- 46. American Convention on Human Rights
- 47. First Protocol to the ACHR (“Protocol of San Salvador”)
- 48. Second Protocol to the ACHR
- 49. Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe Documents
- 50. Helsinki Final Act of 1975
- 51. Humanitarian Law and International Criminal Law Documents
- 52. 1907 Hague Convention IV, Regulations Respecting the Laws and Customs of War on Land
- 53. 1945 Nuremberg Principles
- 54. Basic Rules of International Humanitarian Law
- 55. Geneva Convention IV of 1949 Relative to Protection of Civilians in Armed Conflicts
- 56. 1977 Protocol I to the Geneva Conventions of 1949
- 57. 1977 Protocol II to the Geneva Conventions of 1949
- 58. Statute of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia
- 59. Statute of the International Criminal Court, adopted July 1998
- 60. Convention on Prohibition or Restrictions on the Use of Certain Conventional
Weapons Which May Be Deemed to Be Excessively Injurious or to Have Indiscriminate Effects. (1980; includes protocol and as amended in 1996)
- Appendixes
- A. Charts of the International Protection of Human Rights
- 1. Inter-governmental organizations
- a) Universal/Global Human Rights Systems
- b) Regional Human Rights Systems
- c) Other Systems
- 2. Non-Governmental Organizations/Civil Society
- B. Charts on the U.N. System for the Protection of Human Rights
- 1. The U.N. System
- 2. The United Nations Human Rights Organizational Structure
- 3. International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights: Procedures
- 4. Model ICCPR Complaint
- C. Human Rights Report Card
- D. List of Substantive Human Rights Found in the International Bill of Human Rights
- E. How an International Human Rights Norm Becomes U.S. Law
- F. Status of Human Rights in the United States
- G. Selected U.S. Human Rights Legislation
- H. Selected Case Decisions
- I. Spectrum of Law Applicable in the United States
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Authors
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