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The development of human rights norms is one of the most significant achievements in international relations and law since 1945, but the continuing influence of human rights is increasingly being questioned by authoritarian governments, nationalists, and pundits. Unfortunately, the proliferation of new rights, linking rights to other issues such as international crimes or the activities of business, and attempting to address every social problem from a human rights perspective risk undermining their credibility. Rescuing Human Rights calls for understanding 'human rights' as international human rights law and maintaining the distinctions between binding legal obligations on governments and broader issues of ethics, politics, and social change. Resolving complex social problems requires more than simplistic appeals to rights, and adopting a 'radically moderate' approach that recognizes both the potential and the limits of international human rights law, offers the best hope of preserving the principle that we all have rights, simply because we are human.

Biographical note: Hurst Hannum is a Professor of Law at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University. He has been counsel in cases before European and Inter-American human rights bodies and is a member of the boards of Minority Rights Group International (London) and the International Service for Human Rights (Geneva). Hurst Hannum is the author or editor of numerous books and articles on international law and human rights and serves on editorial advisory boards of Human Rights Law Review and Human Rights Quarterly.

National self-determination : a deadly mobilizing device / Erin Jenne -- The political economy of secession / Paul Collier and Anke Hoeffler -- Self-determination in the twenty-first century / Hurst Hannum -- Uncoupling secession from nationalism and intrastate autonomy from secession / Allen Buchanan -- Self-determination as a component of conflict intractability : implications for negotiation / Eileen F. Babbitt -- Self-determination as self-definition : the case of Morocco / Susan Slyomovics -- Negotiating self-determination : is it a viable alternative to violence? / Eileen F. Babbitt

The scope of arrangements which provide for some degree of "autonomy" is almost unlimited, as are the norms and means which have been adopted to protect minority rights. Documents on Autonomy and Minority Rights offer examples of some of the unique structures which have been developed to respond to geographic, political, ethnic, linguistic, and other differences under a single sovereignty. They present a broad spectrum of domestic constitutional provisions, statutes, and political agreements, as well as a comprehensive collection of relevant international instruments. The first section includes documents adopted on a global or regional basis to set standards for the protection of minority rights and the rights of indigenous peoples. The second section includes a wide range of national documents related to minority rights and/or autonomy. The last section contains historical documents. The author has written a brief introduction to each document to give the reader unfamiliar with the situation to which a document pertains enough information to consider its context. No single text can be used as a model of autonomy, for every situation is unique. At the same time, however, greater knowledge of a broad range of successful and unsuccessful arrangements may inspire new ideas with which to address conflicts which have claimed tens of thousands of lives in recent years. At the very least, the ingenuity evidenced in some of the documents should encourage experimentation and underscore the need of going beyond the mere recitation of definitions of federalism, consociation, devolution, or other constitutional models. The great variety of institutional arrangements, the detailed provisions developed to resolve particularly difficult local problems, and the flexibility in addressing issues such as revenue-sharing or participation in international organizations, demonstrate that neither "sovereignty" nor "self-determination" need stand in the way of innovative solutions

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- PART ONE: INTRODUCTION -- International Formulation of the Right -- PART TWO: CONTEMPORARY LEGAL CONTENT -- General Principles of Interpretation -- Article 12 of the Covenant on Civil and Political Rights -- 'provided by law' -- 'necessary' -- 'national security' -- 'public order (ordre public)' -- 1. The State or collectivity as ultimate guarantor and benificiary of rights -- 2. Limitations on the right to leave based on economic considerations, including the 'brain drain' -- 3. Migration and population policies -- 'public health or morals' -- 'rights and freedoms of others' -- 'consistent with the other rights recognized in the present Covenant' -- 'arbitrarily' -- The Evolving Jurisprudence of the Right to Leave and Return -- The Right to Emigrate -- Refugee Issues and the Right to Seek Asylum -- The Right to Travel -- The Right to Return to One's Country -- 1. 'one's own country' -- 2. Citizenship -- 3. Exile and Expulsion -- Refugee Issues and the Right to Repatriation -- PART THREE: STATE PRACTICE -- General Observations -- Asia and the Pacific -- Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the U.S.A. -- Latin America and the Caribbean -- Western Europe -- Eastern Europe and the U.S.S.R. -- Middle East and North Africa -- Africa -- PART FOUR: CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS -- APPENDICES -- APPENDIX A. Country reports under Article 40 of the Covenant on Civil and Political Rights which refer to rights guaranteed under Article 12 of the Covenant -- APPENDIX B. National constitutional provisions guaranteeing the right to leave and/or return -- APPENDIX C. Draft Principles on Freedom and Non-Discrimination in respect of the Right of Everyone to Leave Any Country, including His Own, and to Return to His Country, by Judge Jose Ingles, Special Rapporteur, 1963.