A human rights : an agenda for the 21st century / edited by Angela Hegarty and Siobhan Leonard.

Human rights: history, development and classification -- The United Nations: structure versus substance (lessons from the principal treaties and covenants) -- European convention on human rights: a new era for human rights protection in Europe -- Horizontal application of human rights law -- To know where we are going, we need to know where we are: revisiting states of emergency -- Gender for equality: a move towards an equality ethos' model? -- Women's rights as human rights: old agendas in new guises -- Practice of equality -- Children's rights-- Economic strategies for the enforcement of human rights -- Transgender rights: the European court of human rights and new identity politics for a new age --Reproductive rights and assisted conception -- Amnesty international: an evolving mandate in a changing world -- Non-governmental organisations and the United Nations -- Unfinished business? Liberty's campaign for a bill of rights -- SmallNGOs and strategic management -- Incorporating the European conventiono