Human Rights in the United States

This book brings to light emerging evidence of a shift toward a fuller engagement with international human rights norms and their application to domestic policy dilemmas in the United States. The volume offers a rich history spanning close to three centuries of the marginalization of human rights discourse in the United States. Contributors analyze particular cases of U.S. human rights advocacy aimed at addressing persistent inequalities within the United States itself including advocacy on the rights of persons with disabilities; indigenous peoples; lone mother-headed families; incarcerated persons; lesbian gay bisexual and transgendered people; and those displaced by natural disasters most notably Hurricane Katrina. The book also explores key arenas in which legal scholars policy practitioners and grassroots activists are challenging multiple divides between public and private spheres (for example in connection with children''s rights and domestic violence) and between public and private sectors (specifically in relation to healthcare and business and human rights).