Innovation and inspiration : fifty years of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights /
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| Imprint: | Amsterdam : Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1999. |
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| Description: | viii, 238 p. ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Verhandelingen der Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen, Afd. Letterkunde nieuwe reeks, d. 178 |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4114484 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction / Peter Baehr, Cees Flinterman, and Mignon Senders
- Fifty years Universal Declaration of Human Rights - balance and challenges of the international protection of human rights / Theo van Boven
- The continuing universality of the Universal Declaration / Rosalyn Higgins
- Fifty years of development of the concept and contents of human rights / Michael Freeman
- Economic costs of human rights / Katarina Tomasevski
- Human rights, minority rights and the search for the national contract / Asbjørn Eide
- Non-discrimination and sexual orientation: making a place for sexual minorities in the global human rights regime / Jack Donnelly
- Gay rights and the rights to a family: conflicts between liberal and illiberal belief systems / Rhoda E. Howard
- Indivisibility of human rights, social justice and Article 18 of the Universal Declaration / Kevin Boyle
- Human rights and national truth commissions / Christian Tomuschat
- Comparative foreign policy and human rights: the United States and other democracies / David P. Forsythe
- The position of Islamic states regarding the Universal Declaration of Human Rights / Abdullahi A. An-Na'im
- The inter-American system of human rights and the new hemispheric reality / Claudio Grossman
- The role of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in the treaty relations of the European Union / Allan Rosas
- Concluding remarks on the fiftieth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights / David Weissbrodt.
