| Description |
2 volumes (lvi, 931 pages) : illustrations, form ; 26 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 909-914) and index. |
| Summary |
This book provides a documents section containing 59 conventions, treaties, and protocols related to the most up-to-date international action on ethnic cleansing, freedom of expression and religion, and violence against women. It offers 240 dictionary entries of human rights terms--ranging from asylum to cultural relativism to hate crimes to torture. Each entry discusses the significance of the term, gives examples, and cites appropriate documents and court decisions. |
| Contents |
Foreword / William F. Schulz -- Dictionary -- Accountability/Accountable -- Advice and Consent of the U.S. Senate -- Affirmative Action -- Aid Conditionality -- Alien Tort Claims Act (ATCA) -- American Convention on Human Rights (ACHR) -- American Declaration of the Rights and Duties of Man (ADHR) -- Amnesty -- Anti-Semitism -- Apartheid -- Arbitrary Arrest/Detention -- Arrest -- Asylum -- Atrocity -- Basic Human Rights -- Bearer -- Bigot(ed)/Bigotry -- Bill of Rights -- Binding -- Breach -- Bricker Amendment -- Broad-mindedness -- Bureau of Human Rights, Democracy and Labor -- Capital Punishment -- Charter -- Civil Human Rights -- Civil Liberties -- Civil Rights -- Civil Society -- Civil War -- Collateral Damage -- Collective Human Rights -- Collective Punishment -- Command Responsibility -- Commission on Human Rights -- Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe -- Communication/Complaint Procedures -- Complementarity of Judicial Systems -- Compliance with Human Rights Norms -- Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE) -- Conscientious Objection -- Convention -- Convention against Torture, Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CAT) -- Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) -- Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (CERD) -- Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide -- Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) -- Corporal Punishment -- Country Reports -- Country-Specific Legislation. |
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Human rights -- United States -- Dictionaries.
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Human rights -- United States -- History -- Sources.
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Human rights. (OCoLC)fst00963285
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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| Genre/Form |
Reference works. (OCoLC)fst01919963
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Dictionaries. (OCoLC)fst01423826
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History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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Sources. (OCoLC)fst01423900
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Reference works.
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| Added Author |
Condé, H. Victor, 1947- author.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Cartwright, Rita Cantos. Human rights in the United States. Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO, ©2000 (OCoLC)903979001 |
| ISBN |
157607109X (alk. paper) |
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9781576071090 (alk. paper) |
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