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

Author: Rita Cantos Cartwright; H Victor Condé
Publisher: Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO, ©2000.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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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,  Read more...
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Genre/Form: Dictionaries
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Dictionnaires anglais
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Rita Cantos Cartwright; H Victor Condé
ISBN: 157607109X 9781576071090
OCLC Number: 43526744
Description: 2 v. (lvi, 931 p.) : ill., form ; 26 cm.
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.
Responsibility: Rita Cantos Cartwright and H. Victor Condé ; foreword by William F. Schulz.

Abstract:

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.

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