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Human Rights Watch is the largest U.S.-based independent human rights organization. It conducts regular, systematic investigations of human rights abuses in some seventy countries around the world. Human Rights Watch (HRW) includes five divisions, covering Africa, the Americas, Asia, the Middle East, and the signatories of the Helsinki accords, and has four thematic projects: the Arms Project, the Women's Rights Project, the Children's Rights Project, and the Free Expression Project. HRW maintains offices in New York, Washington, Los Angeles, London, Brussels, Moscow, Rio de Janeiro, Dushanbe, and Hong Kong. Human Rights Watch is a nongovernmental organization, supported by contributions from private individuals and foundations worldwide. It accepts no government funds.

What do human rights look like when we present them as action-based, bottom-up concepts, and not exclusively as legal items? After all, when we narrow down human rights to a legal concept only, we do not do justice to its meaning. In many professions and branches the idea of human rights is used in jargon, as guiding principles and as a source of inspiration. Human rights make a difference, albeit not necessarily as an enforceable legal concept. This facet of human rights - its practical application beyond lawmakers and lawyers - is deeply underexplored and deserves much more attention. Applied human rights are not per se a matter of lawmaking and enforcement only: it can be part of a mission and vision of companies, it is sometimes at the core of artistic work, it can be a leading principle in social work - especially considering the rights of the child, and it is used as a guiding principle in technological innovation. Human rights are not just for lawyers, but also for managers, engineers, social workers, musicians, local governments, law enforcers, designers and business people. However, and not surprisingly, in each branch the impact and implications of human rights differ. Therefore, it is time for a comprehensive textbook in which the idea of human rights is not exclusively explored as a legal concept, but instead discussed from various applied perspectives. In this book, we explore human rights as an applied concept: as something we do. The chapters are written by an international group of leading experts in a wide range of disciplines and themes, including technology development, social studies, pedagogy, business strategy, public governance, the arts, philosophy and law

The international human rights regime -- Human rights in international law -- The content of human rights -- Rights in principle -- Rights in policy -- Rights in practice -- Measurement complexity, validity, and viability -- The basic rights argument -- The obligations argument -- The implementation argument -- The unique rights argument.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART I The Post-9/11 Climate -- 1 Human Rights Law, Executive Powers, and Torture in the Post-9/11 Era -- 2 Human Rights Advocates in the Post-9/11 Era -- PART II Defining Human Rights in an Era of Controversy -- 3 The Body Counts: Civilian Casualties and the Crisis of Human Rights -- 4 International Human Rights Law: Struggling between Apology and Utopia -- 5 Women's Human Rights in the Twenty-First Century: Crisis, Challenge, and Opportunity -- PART III Pursuing Human Rights and Prosecuting Violators -- 6 The Center for Justice & Accountability: Holding Human Rights Abusers Responsible in the United States and Abroad -- 7 Human Trafficking and Migration -- 8 Doctors Without Borders and the Moral Economy of Pharmaceuticals -- Conclusion -- Index

Human Rights: An Introduction is an important and particularly timely text that provides a comprehensive overview of human rights and related issues from a social science perspective. First, this book does more than discuss theory, it uses case studies and personal testimonies in the debate. Human rights as an area of academic interest cannot be easily divorced from human rights struggles and the reality of contemporary conditions. Second, the book is aimed at what is an emerging and growing cross-disciplinary field of study. Human rights issues are increasingly coming to the fo.