The Human Rights Reader: Major Political Writings, Essays, Speeches, and Documents from the Bible to the Present

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Micheline Ishay
Psychology Press, 1997 - 518 من الصفحات
In every age there have been voices speaking out against oppression, voices that refuse to be silenced and that, whether through peaceful reform or violent revolution, lead the way to the liberation and transformation of society. Today, from the International Women's conference, to Amnesty International and the debate over humanitarian intervention, global interest in human rights is strong and growing. This anthology provides the first comprehensive historical perspective on human rights, covering influential figures, ideals, movements, and strategies. The Human Rights Reader explores the changing concept and practice of human rights through the writings of religious humanists, classical and modern thinkers, major legal documents, political speeches, key theoretical approaches, philosophical works and issues of contemporary relevance. Micheline Ishay has selected readings gathered from a variety of disciplines and sources to reflect the range and depth of the human rights debate across cultures and history. Beginning with the early origins of human rights, she follows the debate through the Enlightenment, the Industrial Age, the World Wars, and anti-imperialist struggles.
 

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Religious Humanism and Stoicism
1
Republic c 400 B C E
10
Politics c 384322 B C E
19
Discourses c 135
35
The Koran c 632
42
Magna Charta 1215
57
In Defense of the Indians c 1548
67
On Laws of War and Peace 1625
73
What is Property? or An Inquiry into the Principle of Right and Government 1840
175
The Principle of Federalism 1863
184
On the Jewish Question 1843
189
The Communist Manifesto 1848
199
The Universal Suffrage 1850
201
Instructions for Delegates to the Geneva Congress
208
The Origins of the Family 1884
219
Women and Socialism 1883
226

2
75
3
79
The Leviathan 1652
84
Habeas Corpus Act 1679
89
4
90
The English Bill of Rights 1689
91
The Second Treatise of the State of Nature 1690
93
Judgement on Perpetual Peace 1756
110
On the Geneva Manuscript or the first draft of The Social Contract 1762
114
Treatise on Crimes and Punishments 1766
119
The United States Declaration of Independence 1776
127
African Slavery in America 1775
130
The Rights of Man 1792
134
The French Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen 1789
138
The Declaration of the Rights of Woman 1790
140
The Rights of Woman 1792147
147
On Property Rights 1793
158
Perpetual Peace 1795
160
Metaphysics of Morals 1797
161
Contemporary Perspectives on the Human Rights Debate
233
Staying Alive Development Ecology and Women 1989
253
Human Rights Rationality and Sentimentality
263
The Right to SelfDetermination
281
The National Question and Autonomy 1909
290
Polish Minority Treaty 1919
307
Of the Dissolution of Government 1690
319
2
325
6
345
An Appeal to the Nation 1924
352
Just and Unjust Wars 1977
358
Just War and Human Rights 1980
368
Human Rights and National
377
Appendix
403
The United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment
421
8
433
American Convention on Human Rights 1969
441
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Micheline Ishay is Professor at the Graduate School of International Studies at University of Denver, where she is Director of the human rights program. She has been a Visiting Professor at The University of Tel Aviv, the University of Maryland, and as Lady Davis Professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and speaks regularly on a variety of human rights and foreign policy issues. Ishay is the author or editor of The History of Human Rights (2004), The Nationalism Reader (1999), and Internationalism and Its Betrayal (1995).

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