Human rights in the United States : a dictionary and documents /

Human rights in the United States : a dictionary and documents /

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Author / Creator:Cartwright, Rita Cantos.
Imprint:Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO, c2000.
Description:2 v. (lvi, 931 p.) : ill. ; 26 cm.
Language:English
Subject:
Human rights -- United States -- Dictionaries.
Human rights -- United States -- History -- Sources.
Human rights.
United States.
Reference works.
Dictionaries.
History.
Sources.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4300519
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Other authors / contributors:Condae, H. Victor, 1947-
ISBN:157607109X (alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. 909-914) and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • How to Use This Book
  • Volume I.
  • 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
  • Covenant
  • Crimes against Humanity
  • Crimes against Peace
  • Cruel Treatment or Punishment
  • Cultural Human Rights
  • Cultural Relativism
  • Culture of Human Rights
  • Culture of Impunity
  • Culture of Peace
  • Customary International Law
  • Declaration/Declarations
  • Declaration of Independence
  • Degrading Treatment or Punishment
  • Demonize/Demonization
  • Deportation
  • Derogation/Derogable Human Rights
  • Detention
  • Disappearance
  • Discrimination
  • Diversity
  • Domestic Remedy
  • Double Standard/Dual Standard
  • Due Process of Law
  • Duty
  • Economic Human Rights
  • Effective Domestic Remedy
  • Entry into Force (EIF)
  • Equality/Equality before the Law
  • Ethnic Cleansing
  • Ethnic Minority
  • Excessive Force
  • Executive Agreements (EA)
  • Executive Orders (EO)
  • Exhaustion of Domestic Remedies
  • Expropriation
  • Extradition
  • Extrajudicial Killing
  • Fact Finding
  • Fair Trial
  • Federal Clause
  • First Generation Human Rights
  • Forced Disappearance
  • Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act (FSIA)
  • Forum of Shame
  • "Four Freedoms"
  • Free and Fair Elections
  • Freedom
  • Freedom of Expression
  • Fundamental Rights/Freedoms
  • General Human Rights Legislation
  • Geneva Conventions of 1949 (GC)
  • Genocide/Genocide Convention
  • Grave Breaches
  • Gross Human Rights Violation
  • Habeas Corpus Proceedings
  • Hard Core Human Rights
  • Harkin Amendment
  • Hate Crime
  • Hate Speech
  • Helsinki Final Act of 1975/Helsinki Accords
  • High Commissioner for Human Rights
  • Holocaust
  • Human Dignity
  • Human Right(s)
  • Human Rights Committee
  • Human Rights Reports
  • Human Rights Violation
  • Humanitarian Intervention
  • Humanitarian Law
  • Illegal Alien
  • Immunity
  • Implementing Legislation
  • Impunity
  • Inalienable Rights
  • Incommunicado Detention
  • Independent and Impartial Judiciary
  • Indigenous Peoples or Populations
  • Indiscriminate Attack/Force
  • Individual Complaint
  • Individual Criminal Responsibility
  • Individual Rights
  • Inherent Human Rights
  • Inhuman Treatment or Punishment
  • Inhumane Treatment
  • Inter-Governmental Organization (IGO)
  • Internally Displaced Person (IDP)
  • International Bill of Rights
  • International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)
  • International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR)
  • International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR)
  • International Criminal Court (ICC)
  • International Criminal Law
  • International Financial Institution (IFI) Legislation
  • International Human Rights Law
  • Interstate Complaint
  • Intolerance
  • Involuntary Servitude
  • Jackson Vanik Amendment
  • Law of Armed Conflict
  • Liberty
  • Liberty and Security of Person
  • Lieber Code
  • Limitation
  • Link/Linkage
  • Massacre
  • Methods or Means of Combat
  • Minority/Minority Rights
  • Monitor
  • Most Favored Nation (MFN) Trading Status
  • Multilateral Forum
  • National Self-Interest
  • Nationalism
  • Natural Law
  • Nondiscrimination
  • Non-Governmental Organization (NGO)
  • Noninterference with Internal Affairs
  • Non-Refoulement
  • Non-Self-Executing Treaty
  • Norm/Normative
  • Nuremberg Charter and Rules
  • Nuremberg Principles
  • On-Site Investigation/Fact Finding
  • Oppression
  • Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE)
  • Organization of American States (OAS)
  • Perpetrator
  • Persecution
  • Pluralism
  • Police Brutality
  • Police State
  • Political Asylum
  • Political Correctness/Politically Correct
  • Political Human Rights
  • Political Will
  • Preamble
  • Pretrial Detention
  • Prisoner of Conscience (POC)
  • Prisoner of War (POW)
  • Procedural Rights
  • Prolonged Arbitrary Detention
  • Proportionality
  • Protocol
  • Public International Law
  • Racial Discrimination
  • Racism/Racist
  • Ratification
  • Refugee
  • Regional Human Rights System or Regime
  • Reparations
  • Reports/Reporting
  • Reservations, Declarations, and Understandings (RDUs/RUDs)
  • Reverse Discrimination
  • Rule of Law
  • Sanctions
  • Second Generation Human Rights
  • Segregation
  • Self-Determination
  • Self-Executing Treaty
  • Sign/Signatory
  • Slavery
  • Social Human Rights
  • Social Justice
  • Soft Law
  • Sovereignty
  • Sovereignty Proviso
  • Special Rapporteur
  • Standard Setting
  • State
  • State Party
  • State Responsibility for Injury to Aliens
  • Sub-Commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities
  • Substantive Rights
  • Summary Execution
  • Third Generation Human Rights
  • Torture
  • Torture Victim Protection Act of 1992 (TVPA)
  • Transparence
  • Treaty/International Instrument
  • Treaty Monitoring/Supervising Body
  • United Nations (U.N.) Charter
  • Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR)
  • Universal Jurisdiction
  • Universality
  • Unnecessary Suffering
  • War Crimes
  • War Crimes Act of 1996
  • Women's Human Rights
  • Worldview
  • Xenophobia
  • Documents
  • A Word of Introduction
  • U.S. Documents
  • 1.. Declaration of Independence
  • 2.. U.S. Constitution
  • 3.. Executive Order 13107 on Implementation of Human Rights Treaties
  • U.S.-Related Documents
  • 4.. Charter of the United Nations
  • 5.. Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR)
  • 6.. International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR)
  • 7.. U.S. Ratification of the ICCPR, with Reservations, Declarations, and Understandings
  • 8.. First Optional Protocol to the ICCPR
  • 9.. Second Optional Protocol to the ICCPR
  • 10.. Initial Report of the United States of America to the U.N. Human Rights Committee under the ICCPR
  • 11.. Consideration by the U.N. Human Rights Committee of Reports Submitted by the United States under the ICCPR
  • 12.. General Comment 15(27) of the U.N. Human Rights Committee on the Position of Aliens under the ICCPR
  • 13.. General Comment 22(18) of the U.N. Human Rights Committee on Freedom of Thought, Conscience, and Religion under the ICCPR
  • 14.. General Comment 23(27) of the U.N. Human Rights Committee on the Rights of Minorities
  • 15.. General Comment 24(14) of the U.N. Human Rights Committee on Issues Relating to Reservations under the ICCPR
  • 16.. International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR)
  • 17.. Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide
  • 18.. U.S. Reservations, Declarations, and Understandings to the Genocide Convention
  • 19.. Convention against Torture, Cruel, Inhuman, or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CAT)
  • 20.. U.S. Reservations, Declarations, and Understandings to the Convention against Torture (CAT)
  • 21.. U.S. Initial Report to the U.N. Committee against Torture
  • 22.. Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (CERD)
  • 23.. U.S. Reservations, Declarations, and Understandings to the Racial Discrimination Convention
  • 24.. Declaration on the Rights of Persons Belonging to National or Ethnic, Religious or Linguistic Minorities
  • 25.. Draft Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
  • 26.. Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW)
  • Volume II.
  • Documents
  • 27.. Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC)
  • 28.. Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees
  • 29.. Protocol Relating to the Status of Refugees
  • 30.. Declaration on the Elimination of All Forms of Intolerance and of Discrimination Based on Religion or Belief
  • 31.. Declaration on the Right and Responsibility of Individuals, Groups, and Organs of Society to Promote and Protect Universally Recognized Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms
  • 32.. Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women
  • 33.. Body of Principles for the Protection of All Persons under Any Form of Detention or Imprisonment
  • 34.. Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners
  • 35.. Safeguards Guaranteeing Protection of the Rights of Those Facing the Death Penalty
  • 36.. U.N. Special Rapporteur Report on Extrajudicial, Summary, or Arbitrary Executions (U.N. Commission on Human Rights)
  • 37.. Written Intervention by Human Rights Advocates Concerning the Death Penalty for Juvenile Offenders
  • 38.. U.N. Special Rapporteur Report on Religious Intolerance and Discrimination (U.N. Commission on Human Rights)
  • 39.. U.N. Special Rapporteur Report on Violence against Women in State and Federal Prisons (U.N. Commission on Human Rights)
  • 40.. U.N. Special Rapporteur Report on Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia, and Related Intolerance (U.N. Commission on Human Rights)
  • 41.. Response of the U.S. Government to the Special Rapporteur Report on Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia, and Related Intolerance
  • 42.. Report of the U.N. Working Group on Arbitrary Detention
  • 43.. Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action
  • 44.. U.N. General Assembly Resolution proclaiming the "U.N. Decade for Human Rights Education,"
  • International Labour Organization Documents
  • 45.. Convention No. 182 Concerning the Prohibition and Immediate Action for the Elimination of the Worst Forms of Child Labour, with U.S. Ratification
  • Organization of American States Documents
  • 46.. American Declaration of the Rights and Duties of Man (ADHR)
  • 47.. American Convention on Human Rights (ACHR)
  • 48.. First Protocol to the ACHR
  • 49.. Second Protocol to the ACHR
  • Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe Documents
  • 50.. Helsinki Final Act
  • Humanitarian Law and International Criminal Law Documents
  • 51.. 1907 Hague Convention IV, Regulations Respecting the Laws and Customs of War on Land
  • 52.. 1945 Nuremberg Principles
  • 53.. Basic Rules of International Humanitarian Law
  • 54.. Geneva Convention IV of 1949 Relative to Protection of Civilians in Armed Conflicts
  • 55.. 1977 Protocol I to the Geneva Conventions
  • 56.. 1977 Protocol II to the Geneva Conventions
  • 57.. Statute of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY)
  • 58.. Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC)
  • 59.. Convention on Prohibition or Restrictions on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons (with Land Mine Protocol)
  • Appendixes
  • A.. Charts of the International Protection of Human Rights
  • B.. Charts of the U.N. System for the Protection of Human Rights
  • C.. What Americans Think About Human Rights in the United States
  • D.. Substantive Human Rights Found in the International Bill of Rights
  • E.. How an International Human Rights Norm Becomes U.S. Law
  • F.. Status of Human Rights Treaties in the United States
  • G.. Selected U.S. Legislation
  • H.. Selected Case Decisions
  • I.. Spectrum of Law Applicable in the United States
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • About the Authors

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