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This newly revised, greatly expanded, and updated edition is the essential tool for navigating the language of international human rights related to law, jurisprudence, politics, diplomacy, and philosophy. Broadening the scope and enhancing our understanding of international human rights, the second edition of A Handbook of International Human Rights Terminology contains over four hundred new commonly used key terms and acronyms as well as corrections to terms that have taken on new meaning since the publication of the original. It also includes new treaty instruments and citations of important human rights instruments. Designed to be accessible to persons from different systems and regions of the world, this handbook fills an important void in the burgeoning discourse of international human rights and will become a vital reference work for specialists, students, and newcomers to this field.
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A Handbook of International Human Rights Terminology, Second Edition HUMAN RIGHTS IN INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVE Volume 8 Series Editor David P. Forsythe University of Nebraska–Lincoln Advisory Editorial Board Peter Baehr University of Utrecht Kevin Boyle University of Essex Jack Donnelly University of Denver Virginia Leary State University of New York–Buffalo Laurie Wiseberg University of Ottawa A • HANDBOOK O F • I N T E R N AT I O N A L HUMAN • RIGHTS • TERMINOLOGY • Second Edition H. Victor Condé University of Nebr aska Press Lincoln and London © 2004 by the Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Condé, H. Victor, 1947– A handbook of international human rights terminology / H. Victor Condé.—2nd ed. p. cm. — (Human rights in international perspective ; v. 8) Includes bibliographical references. isbn 0-8032-1534-7 (cloth : alk. paper) — isbn 0-8032-6439-9 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Human rights—Dictionaries. I. Title. II. Series. k3239.6.c66 2004 341.4 8 03 — dc22 2003067182 • CONTENTS • Preface to the Second Edition vii Acknowledgments ix Introduction xi Methodology Abbreviations and Special Terms List of Terms Defined Definitions of Terms xiii xv xvii 1 Appendix A: Your Human Rights in the International Bill of Rights 279 Appendix B: Texts of the Instruments Comprising the International Bill of Human Rights Universal Declaration of Human Rights; (un 1948) International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (un 1966) First Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (un 1966) Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (un 1989) International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights (un 1966) 281 281 286 303 307 309 vi • Contents Appendix C: Excerpts from Selected International Human Rights Instruments Declaration on the Right and Responsibility of Individuals, Groups and Organs of Society to Promote and Protect Universally Recognized Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (un 1998) Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (un 1948) Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (un 1984) International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (un 1969) Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (un 1979) American Convention on Human Rights (oas 1978) African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights (oau 1981) European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (Council of Europe 1950) Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (un 1998) 319 319 320 324 329 3