The Universal Declaration of Human Rights : fifty years and beyond / edited by Yael Danieli, Elsa Stamatopoulou, Clarence J. Dias ; foreword by Kofi A. Annan ; epilogue by Mary Robinson

Published: Amityville, N.Y. : Baywood Pub. Co., [date of publication not identified][1999]
Copyright Date: ©1999
Physical Description: xxii, 465 pages ; 24 cm
Additional Creators: Danieli, Yael, Stamatopoulou, Elsa, 1951-, and Dias, C. J. (Clarence J.)

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Foreword / Kofi A. Annan -- Reflections by Nobel Laureates / Nadine Gordimer, MF Perutz, John Polyani, Desmond Tutu -- Voices : a tribute to human rights / Elie Wiesel -- Introduction / Elsa Stamatopoulou, Yael Danieli, Clarence J. Dias -- The perspective of the victim / Theo van Boven -- A victims' perspective on the international human rights treaty regime / B.G. Ramcharan -- International Labour Organizaiton (ILO) standards and human rights / Lee Swepston -- The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and the promotion and protection of human rights / Janusz Symonides -- The United Nations Declaration of Basic Principles of Justice for Victims of Crime and Abuse of Power / Irene Melup -- Thematic mechanisms and the protection of human rights / Bacre Waly Ndiaye -- The country mechanisms of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights / Mel James -- Closer to the victim : United Nations human rights field operations / Ian Martin -- Toward an international criminal court / Roger S. Clark and David Tolbert -- Recognizing and realizing women's human rights / Maria Suarez Toro, Shanthi Dairiam -- Voices : lessening the suffering after wartime sexual slavery / Kim, Yoon Shim -- Voices : work tools : patience and understanding / Biba Metikos -- A vision for children : the Convention on the Rights of the Child / Marta Santos Pais -- Voices : John, an Australian Aboriginal child -- Voices : Alfredo, abducted by RENAMO in Mozambique ; Susan, abducted by the Lord's Resistance Army in Uganda -- Indigenous peoples and their demands within the modern human rights movement / S. James Anaya -- New minority rights for the twenty-first century / Hurst Hannum -- Searching for human security and dignity : human rights, refugees, and the internally displaced / Maria Stavropoulou -- Protection of the rights of migrants / Graziano Battistella -- Homelessness and the right to adequate housing : confronting exclusion, sustaining change / Miloon Kothari -- Other groups in struggles against discrimination / Leandro Despouy, Hugo Garcia Garcilazo, Eugene B. Brody, Julia Tavares de Alvarez, Julie Dorf. and Technical cooperation in the field of human rights, past and present, reflections for further development / Jamal Benomar -- Human rights education : the humanizing of a global society / Peter Thuynsma, Heather Thuynsma -- Voices : a legacy for everyone / Tracy Roosevelt -- Interface between global and regional protection and promotion of human rights : an African perspective -- M. Adama Dieng -- The rebellion of the vulnerable : perspectives from the Americas / Susana Chiarotti Boero -- Protection of human rights in Asia and the Pacific : think universal, act regional? / Vitit Muntarbhorn -- Human rights and victims' rights in Europe / Gudmundur Alfredsson -- Human rights in East and Central Europe / Malgorzata Fuszara -- Voices / Vaclav Havel -- The impact of traumatic human rights violations on victims and the mental health profession's response / Brian Engdahl, Marianne Kastrup, James Jaranson, Yael Danieli -- The role of health professionals in protecting and promoting human rights : a paradigm for professional responsibility / Susannah Sirkin, Vincent Iacopino, Michael Grodin, Yael Danieli -- Voices : Freedom : press, speech, expression / Terry Anderson -- Peace, the security council and human rights / Andrew Clapham -- Voices : we also have the right to dream / Rosa Anaya Perla -- Human rights, development, and environment / Clarence J. Dias -- Changing forces and non-state actors in the struggle for human rights / Russel Lawrence Barsh -- The poorest teach us the indivisibility of human rights / Alwine A. de Vos van Steenwijk -- Voices : is this America? : the new freedom bus travels the country / Cheri Honkala -- Epilogue / Mary Robinson.

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0895031922 (cloth)
9780895031921 (cloth)

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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