Human Rights in a Changing East/West Perspective (TAPRI studies in international relations)

viii, 375 pages : 23 cm. These papers arise from the proceedings of an international workshop on human rights intitiated by the Tampere Peace Research Institute, meeting each December from 1987 to 1989. They examine human rights norms and co-operation over increasingly outdated frontiers. Contents: Introduction, Allan Rosas and Jan Helgesen; human rights in the writings of Marx and Engels, Jukka Paastela; democracy and human rights, Allan Rosas; freedom of opinion and expression, Vojin Dimitrijevic; universal legal principles of fair trial in criminal proceedings, Pieter van Dijk; the prohibition of the death penalty - an emerging international norm?, Theodore S. Orlin; the right to work, Christian Tomuschat; national minorities and international law, I.P.Blishchenko and A.H.Abashidze; right to peace, right to development, right to a healthy environment - part of the solution or part of the problem?, Gabor Kardos; between Helsinkis and beyond? - human rights in the CSCE process, Jan Helgesen; national implementation of human rights, Roman Wieruszewski; reporting and complaint systems in universal human rights treaties, Bernhard Graefrath; CSCE states adherence to human rights conventions, Lauri Hannikainen.…