Written in response to the increasingly conscious effort to develop human rights on a universal scale, this book focuses on three distinct areas of human rights―public policy, criteria for comparative assessment, and NGO strategies.
Ved P. Nanda has published extensively on international and environmental law. James R. Scarritt, professor of political science at the University of Colorado, is author of Analyzing Political Change in Africa (Westview, 1980). George W. Shepherd, Jr., is professor of international studies, Graduate School of International Studies, University of Denver; he was previously director of DU's Center on International Race Relations.