Human Rights in the United States
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Human Rights in the United States

Beyond Exceptionalism

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Human Rights in the United States

Beyond Exceptionalism

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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 rights discourse in the United States. Contributors analyze cases of US human rights advocacy aimed at addressing persistent inequalities within the United States itself, including advocacy on the rights of persons with disabilities; indigenous peoples; lone mother-headed families; incarcerated persons; lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered people; and those displaced by natural disasters. It also explores key arenas in which legal scholars, policy practitioners and grassroots activists are challenging multiple divides between 'public' and 'private' spheres (for example, in connection with children's rights and domestic violence) and between 'public' and 'private' sectors (specifically, in relation to healthcare and business and human rights).

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2011
ISBN
9781139066310
Topic
Politics & International Relations
Subtopic
Human Rights
Index
Politics & International Relations

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title
  3. Dedication
  4. Title
  5. Copyright
  6. Contents
  7. Contributors
  8. Acknowledgments
  9. Foreword: Are Americans Human? Reflections on the Future of Progressive Politics in the United States
  10. 1 Paradoxes and Possibilities: Domestic Human Rights Policy in Context
  11. Section I: Structuring Debates, Institutionalizing Rights
  12. Section II: Challenging Public/Private Divides
  13. Section III: From the Margins to the Center: Making Harms Visible through Human Rights Framing
  14. Appendix 1: Universal Declaration of Human Rights
  15. Appendix 2: International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
  16. Appendix 3: International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
  17. Index