The development of international human rights law

In: Library of essays on international human rights Volume 1

Abstract

part PART I: PHILOSOPHICAL, RELIGIOUS, AND HISTORICAL INFLUENCES UNDERLYING THE DEVELOPMENT OF HUMAN RIGHTS LAW -- chapter 1 Origins: The Rise and Fall of Natural Rights -- chapter 2 Introduction: The Human Rights Idea -- chapter 3 Islam and Human Rights: Beyond the Universality Debate -- chapter 4 Women's Rights as Human Rights: Toward a Re-Vision of Human Rights -- part PART II: DRAFTING OF THE HUMAN RIGHTS PROVISIONS OF THE UN CHARTER AND OF THE UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS -- chapter 5 The Road to San Francisco: The Revival of the Human Rights Idea in the Twentieth Century -- chapter 6 World War Two and the Universal Declaration -- chapter 7 Article 55( c) -- part PART III: THE DEBATE OVER UNIVERSALITY OF HUMAN RIGHTS -- chapter 8 Cultural Relativism and Universal Human Rights -- chapter 9 Savages, Victims, and Saviors: The Metaphor of Human Rights -- chapter 10 What's Wrong with Chinese Rights?: Toward a Theory of Rights with Chinese Characteristics -- part PART IV: INTERDEPENDENCE AND INDIVISIBILITY OF CIVIL, ECONOMIC, CULTURAL, POLITICAL AND SOCIAL RIGHTS -- chapter 11 The Past and Future of the Separation of Human Rights into Categories -- chapter 12 The Importance of Democracy -- chapter 13 Freedom from Want: How can we make Indivisibility more than a Mere Slogan? -- chapter 14 The Four Freedoms turn 70 -- chapter 15 Procedures for the Implementation of Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights -- part PART V: COMPLIANCE WITH HUMAN RIGHTS STANDARDS AND CAUSES OF HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS: POLITICAL, SOCIOLOGICAL, ECONOMIC, ETC./THE ROLE OF BYSTANDERS -- chapter 16 The Normative Context of Human Rights Criticism: Treaty Ratification and UN Mechanisms -- chapter 17 The Psychology of Bystanders, Perpetrators, and Heroic Helpers -- part PART VI: THE ROLE OF NGOS IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF HUMAN RIGHTS -- chapter 18 The Status of Human Rights NGOs -- chapter 19 Transnational Advocacy Networks and the Social Construction of Legal Rules -- chapter 20 The Role of Non-Govemmental Organizations in International Human Rights Standard-Setting: A Prerequisite of Democracy -- part PART VII: PROLIFERATION AND OVERLAP OF HUMAN RIGHTS; TOO MANY RIGHTS? -- chapter 21 The Evolving International Human Rights System -- chapter 22 Conjuring Up New Human Rights: A Proposal for Quality Control -- chapter 23 Introduction.