Human rights in the United States : beyond exceptionalism
"This book brings to light emerging evidence of a shift toward a fuller engagement with international human rights norms and their application to domestic policy dilemmas in the United States. The volume offers a rich history, spanning close to three centuries, of the marginalization of human r...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press ,
c2011
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| Online Access: | Table of contents only |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Paradoxes and possibilities : domestic human rights policy in context
- 2. The yellow sweatshirt : human dignity and economic human rights in advanced industrialized democracies
- 3. The U.S. welfare state : a battleground for human rights
- 4. Drawing lines in the sand : building economic and social rights norms in the United States
- 5. State and local commissions as sites for domestic human rights implementation
- 6. The curious resistance to seeing domestic violence as a human rights violation in the United States
- 7. At the crossroads : children's rights and the U.S. government
- 8. Entrenched inequity : health care in the United States
- 9. Business and human rights : a new approach to advancing environmental justice in the United States
- 10. The law and politics of U.S. participation in the UN convention on the rights of persons with disabilities
- 11. The anomaly of citizenship for indigenous rights
- 12. Human rights violations as obstacles to escaping poverty : the case of lone mother-headed families
- 13. The human rights of children in conflict with the law : lessons for the U.S. human rights movement
- 14. LGBT rights as human rights in the United States : opportunities lost
- 15. No shelter : disaster politics in Louisiana and the struggle for human rights