Judith R. Blau, David L. Brunsma, Alberto Moncada, Catherine Zimmer

Leading Rogue State (eBook, ePUB)

The U.S. and Human Rights

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Most Americans would be surprised to learn that their government has declined to join most other nations in UN treaties addressing inadequate housing, poverty, health care, racial discrimination, and migrant workers. This book documents how the US has, declined to ratify widely accepted treaties on these and many other basic human rights.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Dezember 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317256793
• Artikelnr.: 44366628

Autorenporträt

Authored by Blau, Judith R.; Brunsma, David L.; Moncada, Alberto; Zimmer, Catherine

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Frances Fox Piven; Chapter 1 Human Vulnerabilities
Bryan S. Turner; Chapter 2 Rights to Housing
Dave Overfelt
David L. Brunsma; Chapter 3 Health as a Human Right
Antonio Ugalde
Núria Homedes; Chapter 4 Labor Rights and Rights of Workers
Vincent J. Roscigno
Andrew Martin; Chapter 5 Rights of the Child
Brian Gran; Chapter 6 Rights of Migrants and Minorities
Cecilia Menjívar
Rubén G. Rumbaut; Chapter 7 Women's Rights
Tola Olu Pearce; Chapter 8 Rights of People with Disabilities
Jean Lynch; Chapter 9 Rights of Indigenous Peoples
Keri E. Iyall Smith; Chapter 10 The Human Right to Sexual and Gender Self-Expression
Gerald F. Lackey; Chapter 11 Language Rights as Human Rights
Golash-Boza Tanya
Douglas Parker; Chapter 12 Cultural Rights
Rodney D. Coates; Chapter 13 Rights to Water
Food
and Development
Jenniffer M. Santos-Hernández
John Barnshaw; Chapter 14 Environmental Rights
Damayanti Banerjee; Chapter 15 Rights of Prisoners
Hattery Angela
Earl Smith; Chapter 16 Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law
John Hagan
Wenona Rymond-Richmond; Chapter 17 Rights to Part Icipate in Democracy
Mark Frezzo; Chapter 18 The Social Forum Process and Human Rights
Marina Karides; Chapter 19 Freedom and Security
Judith Blau
Alberto Moncada; postscript Postscript
Jack Donnelly;