Human Rights and International Politics

Contents: Preface. 1. Meaning of human rights in international preview. 2. International human rights standards and their development. 3. Global application of HR norms. 4. United Nations strategies and action to promote human rights. 5. International criminal courts. 6. Regional application of HR norms. 7. The office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights (OHCHR) and partners. 8. Non Governmental organizations and HR. 10. The politics of liberalism in a realist world. Index.

In recent times political and social leaders public servants and academics in world over have been concerned with the question of what is the actual meaning of human rights and how we can protect them the reference to law and order? The forces of globalization liberalization and the revolution in information technology have shattered many a myth hitherto held sacrosanct. Many complex environmental and global problems and pressures of exploitation of human rights are further accentuated in a developing multi linguistic, and a multi cultural country like United States, Germany France etc. (jacket)