Human rights / edited by Robert McCorquodale.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

pt. I. Challenging human right concepts. The philosophic foundation of human rights / Jerome J. Shestack ; Human rights genealogy / Ruti Teitel ; The concept of human rights: the history and meaning of its politicization / Joy Gordon ; Voices of suffering, fragmented universality, and the future of human rights / Upendra Baxi ; What future for economic and social rights? / David Beetham ; The Banjul Charter and the African cultural fingerprint: an evaluation of the language of duties / Makau Wa Mutua ; Human rights, group rights, and peoples' rights / Peter Jones -- Rethinking universals: opening transformative possibilities in international human rights law / Dianne Otto ; Toward a multicultural conception of human rights / Boaventura de Sousa Santos -- part II. Applying human right concepts. The global market and human rights: trading away the human rights principle / Frank J. Garcia ; The attack on human rights / Michael Ignatieff ; International humanitarian law and human rights law / Louise Doswald-Beck, Sylvain Vite ; A 'violations approach' for monitoring the international covenant on economic, social and cultural rights / Audrey R. Chapman ; Freedoms and needs / Amartya Sen ; The public/private distinction and the right to development in international law / Hilary Charlesworth ; Human rights and sustainable development in contemporary Africa: a new dawn, or retreating horizons? / Joseph Oloka-Onyango ; Is there a right not to be poor? / Sigrun I. Skogly ; The international human rights movement: part of the problem? / David Kennedy.