Human rights in the world community : issues and action / edited by Richard Pierre Claude and Burns H. Weston.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Human rights / Burns H. Weston -- Theoretical foundations of human rights / Richard A. Falk -- International human rights and cultural relativism / Fernando R. Tesón -- The sovereign territorial state : the right to genocide / Leo Kuper -- Torture as policy / Amnesty International -- Civil rights / Richard B. Lillich -- Race, sex, and religious discrimination in international law / Jack Greenberg -- Refugees : a never-ending story / W.R. Smyser -- Human rights on the periphery : no room in the ark for the Yanomami? / Christian Bay -- Human rights in liberal, socialist, and Third World perspective / Adamantia Pollis -- Realization of social and economic rights and the minimum threshold approach / Asbjørn Eide -- The right of development as a human right / Héctor Gross Espiell -- Self-determination as a human right / Hurst Hannum -- Planetary rights / Edith Brown Weiss -- Peace as a human right / Philip Alston -- The United Nations and human rights : more than a whimper, less than a roar / Tom J. Farer -- Regional human rights regimes : a comparison and appraisal / Burns H. Weston, Robin Ann Lukes, and Kelly M. Hnatt -- The Helsinki process : birth of a human rights system / Thomas Buergenthal -- Strategies for the international protection of human rights in the 1990s / B.G. Ramcharan -- Human rights and foreign policy / Evan Luard -- Humanitarian intervention and American foreign policy : law, morality, and politics / Jack Donnelly -- Congress and human rights in U.S. foreign policy : the fate of general legislation / David P. Forsythe -- The case of Joelito Filártiga in the courts / Richard P. Claude -- The United States commitment to international human rights / Diane F. Orentlicher -- Human rights nongovernmental organizations / Laurie S. Wiseberg. Scientists as detectives : investigating human rights / Clyde Collins Snow, Eric Stover, and Kari Hannibal -- Multinational corporations and human rights / Matthew Lippman -- "Looking and thinking" about human rights and revolution / Winston P. Nagan.