Human Rights in Our Time

An excellent introduction to international human rights written for college students and general readers. It explains the foundation for universal human rights key UN conventions; the rights of women children indigenous people; international humanitarian law UN Criminal Tribunals universalism vs relativism regional human rights systems; human rights practices in China Gaza the US Rwanda Pakistan Zimbabwe Tanzania; torture genocide universal jurisdiction human rights reporting and assessment. It also introduces readers to important human rights NGOs. The appendix contains key UN Human Rights Conventions. The author served as Expert-on-Mission with the UN Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia and is Director of Peace and Justice Studies at Warren Wilson College.