Human Rights in the International Public Sphere Civic Discourse for the 21st Century

Subjects:

• Communications » Political Communications
• Political Science » Civil/Political/Human Rights

Awards:

• IICD Outstanding Scholarship Award
• International Communication Association, Best Book, 1999

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• Introduction: Human Rights for a New Century
• Part I: THE United Nations Develops Human Rights
• Defining Human Rights at the United Nations
• The Evolution of Human Rights at the United Nations
• The Human Rights Challenge
• Part II. Other Channels of Discourse
• Pursuing Human Rights: The NGOs
• The Media and Human Rights: Knowledge and Power in the Global Village
• When Celebrity Does Human Rights
• The Image of Human Rights: Film and Still Photography
• Part III: The Human Rights Setting
• Nigeria: Divisionism and Oil Interests
• Congo: Boundaries of Human Rights
• Genocide in Rwanda: Human Rights Retreat
• Haiti: Human Rights Abandoned
• Indonesia Reaches for Human Rights
• China: The Open Door and Human Rights
• Part IV: Global Issues and Dilemmas
• Women and International Justice
• Human Rights and Labor Justice
• TNCs: The Ideology of Global Capital
• Multilateralism and Human Rights: Kofi Annan and Nelson Mandela
• Human Rights Accountability: Arresting a Former Director
• Conclusion: Empowering Human Rights
• Appendix: Abbreviations
• References
• Author Index
• Subject Index