Universal Human Rights

Written some fifty years after the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, this book shows that the struggle for a fuller realisation of these rights is far from over. It maps out the current international human rights agenda by focusing on four interrelated themes. The first concerns the conceptual development of human rights; the second looks at human rights in the Asia-Pacific region; the third considers human rights in a post-Cold War environment; and the fourth assesses the protection and monitoring of human rights.

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ROBERT G. PATMAN is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Political Science at the University of Otago, New Zealand. He is the author of The Soviet Union in the Horn of Africa: the Diplomacy of Intervention and Disengagement and editor of New Zealand and Britain: A Special Relationship in Transition and Security in the Post-Cold War World.

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Acknowledgements Abbreviations Notes on the Contributors International Human Rights after the Cold War; R.G.Patman New Zealand's Approach to Human Rights: Bridging the Gap between Ideals and Practice; S.Upton Universal Human Rights? An Analysis of the 'Human-Rights Culture' and its Critics; C.Brown Social Rights: Building a Legal Tradition; P.Hunt The Human Rights of Indigenous People: Tiptoeing Towards Self-Determination; P.Reeves Human Rights - The Asian Perspective; H.T.Hussein Asia and Human Rights: At the Crossroads of the New Millennium; V.Muntarbhorn Human Rights, the New Universal Media Angle: Is it a Distorting Lens?; R.Callick Human Rights and the Clinton Administration: American Policy at the Dawn of a New Century; J.McCormick Protection of Human Rights in the New Ethiopia; F.Nahum Rape as a War Crime and Crime Against Humanity: Its Questionable Status; K.Mahoney UN Multi-functional Peace Operations and Human Rights; N.Graeger Privacy and the Human Rights Challenges of Technology and Globalisation; P.Roth The Challenges of Protecting and Monitoring Human Rights: an NGO Perspective; D.Stubbings Human Rights and Foreign Policy; R.Honey Index