The Development of International Human Rights Law: Volume I

In: Library of Essays on International Human Rights v.1

Abstract

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Series Preface -- Introduction -- PART I: PHILOSOPHICAL, RELIGIOUS, AND HISTORICAL INFLUENCES UNDERLYING THE DEVELOPMENT OF HUMAN RIGHTS LAW -- 1 Origins: The Rise and Fall of Natural Rights -- Why history? -- On rights and tyrants -- Justice and rights -- Natural rights -- The age of revolutions -- The decline of natural rights -- References -- 2 Introduction: The Human Rights Idea -- POLITICAL AND MORAL UNDERPINNINGS -- Notes -- 3 Islam and Human Rights: Beyond the Universality Debate -- CONCLUDING REMARKS -- 4 Women's Rights as Human Rights: Toward a Re-Vision of Human Rights -- I. BEYOND RHETORIC: POLITICAL IMPLICATIONS -- II. TOWARD ACTION: PRACTICAL APPROACHES -- PART II: DRAFTING OF THE HUMAN RIGHTS PROVISIONS OF THE UN CHARTER AND OF THE UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS -- 5 The Road to San Francisco: The Revival of the Human Rights Idea in the Twentieth Century -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS AND THE MINORITY CLAUSES -- Ill. THE PIONEER ROLE OF ANDRE MANDELSTAM AND THE INVOLVEMENT OF NONGOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS -- IV. THE EMERGENCE OF NAZI GERMANY AND THE HAITIAN PROPOSALS TO THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS -- V. CONTINUING NEGLECT OF THE HUMAN RIGHTS CONCEPT BY PREWAR POLITICAL THOUGHT -- VI. THE RIGHTS OF MAN CAMPAIGN OF H.G. WELLS -- VII. PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT AND THE FOUR FREEDOMS -- VIII. THE HUMAN RIGHTS MOVEMENT DURING WORLD WAR II -- IX. THE OPENING PHASE OF THE SAN FRANCISCO CONFERENCE -- X. EPILOGUE-THE NEED FOR FURTHER RESEARCH -- 6 World War Two and the Universal Declaration -- I. HITLER'S ORGANIC STATE AND ARTICLES 1 AND 2 -- Article 1 -- Article 2 -- II. PERSONAL SECURITY AND THE CAMPS -- Article 3 -- Article 4 -- Article 5 -- Ill. THE FUHRER PRINCIPlE AND ARTIClE 21 -- IV. NAZIFICATION AND LEGAL RIGHTS -- Article 6