A unique volume designed to provoke an ongoing dialogue about fundamental human rights in our society Edited by renowned scholars, Judith Blau and Mark Frezzo, this groundbreaking anthology examines the implications that human rights have for the social sciences. The book provides readers with a wide-ranging collection of articles, each written by experts in their fields whoaargue for an expansion of fundamental human rights in the United States. To provide an international context, the volume covers the human rights treaties that have been incorporated into the constitutions of many countries throughout the world, including wealthy nations such as Spain and Sweden andaimpoverished countries such as Bolivia and Croatia.
Part I. What Are Universal Human Rights? Chapter 1. Introduction - Mark Frezzo Chapter 2. Deepening Civil and Political Rights - Mark Frezzo Chapter 3. Ensuring Economic and Social Rights - Louis Edgar Esparza Chapter 4. Promoting Cultural Rights - Laura Toussaint Chapter 5. Globalizing the Human Rights Perspective - Bruce K. Friesen Chapter 6. Cooperating Around Environmental Rights - Rebecca Clausen Chapter 7. Comparing Constitutions - Judith Blau Part II. Citizenship, Identity, and Human Rights Chapter 8. Arizona's SB 1070: Setting Conditions for Violations of Human Rights Here and Beyond - 8. Rogelio Saenz, Cecilia Menjivar, San Juanita Edilia Garcia Chapter 9. Beyond Two Identities: Turkish Immigrants in Germany - Tugrul Keskin Part III. Vulnerability and Human Rights Chapter 10: The Rights of Age: On Human Vulnerability - Bryan S. Turner Chapter 11. Children's Rights - Brian Gran and Rachel Bryant Part IV. The Global and the Local Chapter 12. Growing and Learning Human Rights - Judith Blau Chapter 13. Going Forward - Judith Blau Promoting Cultural Rights Globalizing the Human Rights Perspective Linking Human Rights and the Environment Arizona's SB 1070: Setting Conditions for Violations of Human Rights Here and Beyond Beyond Two Identities: Turkish Immigrants in Germany The Rights of Age Children's Rights Ensuring Economic and Social Rights Foreword - Shulamith Koenig
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