A Handbook of International Human Rights Terminology

H. Victor Conde

• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Year: 2004
• Print ISBN:
  9780803215344
• Edition: 2
• eBook ISBN:
  9780803204072
• Topic: Law
• Subtopic: International Law
• Index: Law

This newly revised, greatly expanded, and updated edition is the essential tool for navigating the language of international human rights related to law, jurisprudence, politics, diplomacy, and philosophy. Broadening the scope and enhancing our understanding of international human rights, the second edition of A Handbook of International Human Rights Terminology contains over four hundred new commonly used key terms and acronyms as well as corrections to terms that have taken on new meaning since the publication of the original. It also includes new treaty instruments and citations of important human rights instruments. Designed to be accessible to persons from different systems and regions of the world, this handbook fills an important void in the burgeoning discourse of international human rights and will become a vital reference work for specialists, students, and newcomers to this field.

Table of contents

• Preface to the Second Edition
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Methodology
• Abbreviations and Special Terms
• List of Terms Defined
• Definitions of Terms
• APPENDIX A: Your Human Rights in the International Bill of Rights
• APPENDIX B: Texts of the Instruments Comprising the International Bill of Human Rights
• Universal Declaration of Human Rights
• International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
• First Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
• Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, Aiming at the Abolition of the Death Pe
• International Covenant on Economic Social and Cultural Rights
• APPENDIX C: Excerpts from Selected International Human Rights Instruments
• Declaration on the Right and Responsibility of Individuals, Groups and Organs of Society to Promote and Project Universally R
• Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide
• Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment
• International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination
• International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women
• American Convention on Human Rights
• African [Banjul] Charter on Human and Poeples' Rights
• European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms
• Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court
• APPENDIX D: Official Citations for Human Rights and Related Instruments
• Bibliography