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PART I: Introduction to the Idea and Framework
3Key Conceptual Debates: Cultural Relativism Versus Universality, Relativity of Rights, Liberal Origins, Culture-Sovereignty and Domestic JurisdictionCohen, Joshua. Minimalism about Human Rights: The Most We Can Hope for? (PDF)
4The Framework of Rights and Criticisms of Their Current RelevanceUniversal Declaration of Human Rights and the International Bill of Rights, available at International Law

Human Rights Watch World Report 2003: Introduction

Human Rights Watch World Report 2003: United States

Development and Human Rights: The Role of the World Bank.

UNDP, Human Development Report: Human Rights and Human Development, especially chapters 1, 3, and 6 available at Human Development Reports

Declaration on the Right to Development

Kennedy, David. The International Human Rights Movement: Part of the Problem? (PDF - 1.5 MB)
5Sovereignty and Self-determinationICISS Report: International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty.

Ottaway, Marina, and Thomas Carothers. "The Right Road to Sovereignty in Iraq." (PDF)
9The Torture Debate: Example of American Exceptionalism?Human Rights Watch: The Legal Prohibition Against Torture

CNN.com - Dershowitz: Torture Could be Justified - Mar 3, 2003

Bush Administration Documents on Interrogation. (Browse through documents.)

Salon.com - Torture's dark allure. (You need to watch a short advertisement to gain access.)
PART II: Root Causes of Human Rights Violations
10The Push for Democracy and DemocratizationHuman Rights Watch World Report 2004: War in Iraq: Not a Humanitarian Intervention.
13Gender and Sexual MinoritiesFull text of Mass. gay marriage ruling.

Taking Cover: Women in Post-Taliban Afghanistan (May 8, 2002).
14Ethnic and Racial Violence and Group Rights: Mass Violence IReparations: A Dialogue between Human Rights Activists and Academics. (PDF)

Table of Contents: Broken People: Caste Violence Against India's "Untouchables".

Power, Samantha. "Bystanders to Genocide." The Atlantic Monthly, September 2001.
15Religious Violence and Millenarianism: Mass Violence IIInternational Religious Freedom Report: Executive Summary.

P-I Focus: Bush weds religion, politics to form world view.

India: "We Have No Orders To Save You": State Participation and Complicity in Communal Violence in Gujarat.
PART III: Responses to Human Rights Violations
16Forcible Responses: Intervention and SovereigntyICISS Report: International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty.

Report of the Secretary-General's High-level panel on Threats, Challenges and Change. (PDF)
17Domestic CourtsConstitutional Court of South Africa: Cases and Judgments.
Search for case: Government of R.S.A. v. Grootboom, CCT 11/00 (4th October 2000, Constitutional Court of South Africa).
18Transnational/International Judicial EnforcementHouse of Lords: Regina v. Bartle and the Commissioner of Police for the Metropolis and Others.

The Pinochet Precedent: How Victims Can Pursue Human Rights Criminals Abroad.
20Civil Society - NGOs and Social MovementsU.S. Department of State, Human Rights Reports for 1999: Introduction.
PART IV: Dilemmas in Theory and Practice: Selected Current Examples
21The Problem of Remedies: Accountability for AtrocitiesHRW: ICC: Q and A about the International Criminal Court.

The Hindu: Impunity from My Lai to Abu Ghraib.
22Globalization and Labor RightsUnited Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights: Documents of Charter-Based Bodies.
Read: Globalization and its Impact on the Full Enjoyment of Human Rights - Progress Report submitted by J. Oloka-Onyango, and Deepika Udagama, E/CN.4/Sub.2/2001/10 (Report from the Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights, 2001)

WTO Dispute Settlement and Human Rights.
23Science, Technology and Human RightsThe Universal Declaration on the Human Genome and Human Rights: UNESCO SHS

Council of Europe (CETS 164) Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Dignity of the Human Being with regard to the application of Biology and Medicine.

Council of Europe (CETS 168) Additional Protocol (Explanatory Report) to the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Dignity of the Human Being with regard to the application of Biology and Medicine.

 








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