Handbook of International Human Rights Terminology

Victor Conde H.

Description

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.

Sujets

• Dictionaries
• Idioma inglés
• International law
• International human rights law
• English
• Dictionary
• Anglais

Informations

• Publié par: Nebraska Paperback
• Date de parution: 01 juin 2004
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780803204072
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 2 Mo

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A Handbook of International Human Rights Terminology, Second Edition

HUM AN 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

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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

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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. isbn0-8032-1534-7 (cloth : alk. paper) —isbn0-8032-6439-9 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Human rights —Dictionaries. I. Title. II. Series. k3239.6.c662004 341.4803 — dc22 2003067182

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Preface to the Second Edition

Acknowledgments

Introduction Methodology

CONTENTS

Abbreviations and Special Terms

List of Terms Defined

Definitions of Terms

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Appendix A: Your Human Rights in the International Bill of Rights

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)

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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)

Appendix D: Official Citations for Human Rights and Related Instruments

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SINCE THEwriting of the initial Handbook the author has had the opportunity to observe his students in the United States and in Europe test-driving it in class and us- ing it in term papers. He has received many favorable comments from around the world of those who have been helped by it. The feedback has been positive enough to let him know that the thousands of hours put into its writing were not in vain. The Handbook has helped students, lawyers, human rights activists, government agents, and the average citizen increase the understanding of that body of human knowledge known as human rights. As anticipated, the author also received constructive criticism, well taken and valid corrections, and suggestions for new terms not found in the original edition. Thanks to all those who cared enough about human rights to give the author their valuable input. The need for this second edition came about because the world of human rights law, politics, and institutions has been slowly evolving since the initial edition, and some terms have had to be changed to reflect a change in accepted terminology or the name of a particular forum or procedure. On top of all that, 9/11 occurred. This launched the “war on terrorism,” which gave rise to or brought back again such terms as terrorism, enemy combatant, unilateral- ism, anticipatory self defense, material breach, and national security. In the interpre- tation and application of these terms rests the lives of many human beings and a po- tential for billions of dollars of destruction caused by terrorism and the armed conflict that may ensue to combat it. Many see the present world as a more dangerous place for human rights and fundamental freedoms than ever before. The international community has said that the solution to the world’s problems is human rights educa- tion at all levels, for everyone, so that the world transforms from a planet of violence and hostile use of force into one characterized by a culture of human rights and peace in a rule of law society. This second edition picks up where the first ended and is an attempt to again fur- ther the understanding of human rights by increasing the understanding of the terms

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used therein. Many new human rights texts of all varieties are appearing on book- shelves, and still, few of them will define the human rights terms they use, so as to as- sure full understanding and comprehension. Would that we all understood the lan- guage of human rights well enough that that would not be a problem. May this book help in that regard. The Handbook has now been translated into several foreign languages, and it is the author’s intention that it be translated into still others. In addition, it is the author’s intention that a more portable and paperback edition of this second edition be pro- duced so as to see its use expand. What the world needs now is not more soldiers trained to kill or destroy in order to stop others from killing or destroying, but more humans educated in human rights, who are capable and willing to challenge governments to abide by the human rights norms that are the birthright of all human beings and were painfully birthed in the crucible of the holocaust. No justice, no peace. Let us all work together for the pro- motion and protection of human rights by first learning them ourselves at school or online or elsewhere. And let us teach them to our children, the future of this planet. The time for war should be no more. Let us promote justice and peace through in- crease in the knowledge of and action for human rights.

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

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DEEPEST THANKSagain to my patient wife Jean who again put up with me dur- ing this endless process; and to my precious daughter, Simone Thérèse Condé, who inspired the first edition and now the second, and who makes this work all worth- while. Je t’aime. Special Thanks to Rita Cartwright, Robert Savage, Bob and Monique Gibbs, Ste- ven Kennedy, Morton Winston, Jean Bernard Marie, Elena Ipollitti, Msgr. Wm. Mc- Laughlin, John Wanvig, John Felcyn, Paula Lizano Van der Laat, and all the staff of the International Institute of Human Rights in Strasbourg, France. I give thanks and glory and praise to God for the freedom and knowledge to be able to write this book. In thankful memory of Marie Therese Condé, my mother, who gave me the model, guidance, strength, and faith to struggle for the rights of other human beings as a hu- man rights lawyer, advocate, and professor. In memoriam: Sergio Vieira de Mello, Joan Fitzpatrick, Arthur C. Helton, 2003.