Encyclopedia of Human Rights Issues Since 1945 - Hardcover

Langley, Winston

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0313301638 ISBN 13: 9780313301636

Publisher: Greenwood, 1999

Synopsis

This outstanding, comprehensive, and up-to-date encyclopedia on human rights issues from 1945 to 1998 features more than 400 entries on incidents and violations, instruments and initiatives, countries and human rights activists. Its global scope is ideal for high school and college student research and class debate and for use with Model UN clubs. More than fifty years after the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948, much has been accomplished on a global scale, particularly by the United Nations, to protect the rights of all people, but many human rights violations continue to be perpetrated. Langley, an internationally recognized expert on human rights, has provided the most current information on both the progress of human rights activities and the continuing incidents of human rights violations around the globe.

Entries cover major issues, incidents and violations, concepts and terms, activists, organizations, and human rights instruments. Entries on more than fifty nations from Afghanistan to Yugoslavia were selected based on the incidence of major human rights in those nations. Comprehensive cross-references in each entry make it easy to research a topic and its related entries easily. Each entry concludes with a selected list of further reading for more in-depth research. A timeline of significant dates since 1945 in the field of human rights and the text of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights add reference value.

About this title

About the Author

WINSTON E. LANGLEY is Professor of Political Science and International Relations at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. He specializes in human rights and is the co-author with Vivian C. Fox of Women's Rights in the United States: A Documentary History (Greenwood, 1994), which received the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Human Rights in North America award for the Outstanding Book on the Subject of Human Rights in North America. He is also author of Human Rights: The Major Global Instrument (1992) and Women's Rights in International Documents (1991).

Reviews

Grade 10 Up-A timely addition to reference shelves. Alphabetical entries covering the post-World War II era include pertinent documents, people, nations, organizations, and incidents, and cover such topics as "Affirmative Action," "Chechnya," and the "Inter-American Convention on the Forced Disappearance of Persons." Within each entry, cross-references are indicated by bold print. Almost all conclude with further reading. Frequently quoting current documents that govern the international community's response to human-rights issues, the author demonstrates how the world has moved from the "moral depravity of World War II" to the prosecution of war criminals in Rwanda. "The International Bill of Human Rights" and the "Convention on the Rights of the Child" are appended. Librarians will want to purchase this work as an enhancement to Carol Devine's excellent Human Rights (Oryx, 1999), which focuses on law and practice.
Joanne K. Cecere, Highland High School, NY
Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Edition details

• Publisher: Greenwood
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0313301638
• ISBN 13: 9780313301636
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 424