Human Rights Syllabi: Institute of International Studies, University of California, Berkeley

Princeton University

Human Rights & Science
in the World Community:
Issues & Actions

Spring 1996 - Prof. Richard Claude

Issues

II. Basic Decencies: Civil and Political Rights

Read: C&W: 57-130; CH: 48-96

• Leo Kuper, "The Sovereign Territorial State: The Right to Genocide," reading #4 in C&W:69-78.
• Amnesty International, "Torture as Policy," reading # 5 in C&W: 79-88.
• Richard Lillich, "Civil Rights," reading #6 in C&W:90-100.
• Jack Greenberg, "Race, Sex, and Religious Discrimination in International Law," reading # 7 in C&W: 101-111.
• W.R. Smyser, "Refugees: A Never-Ending Story," reading # 8 in C&W: 114-122.
• Christian Bay, "Human Rights on the Periphery: No Room in the Ark for the Yanomami?" reading # 9 in C&W: 124-131.
• Christopher Joyce and Eric Stover, Witness from the Grave (Bantam Books, 1988).
• CH 48-96, especially for discussion: June Goodfield, "Humanity in Science: A Perspective and a Plea," William D. Carey, "A Very Human Business"; Robert W. Kates, "Human Issues in Human Rights"; J.R.Schenken, "The Scientist as a Citizen"; Edward Wenk, Jr., "Scientists Engineers, and Citizen"; and Philip Handler, "Public Doubts About Science."

III. Basic Human Needs, Social and Economic Rights

Read C&W: 137-207; CH: 98-123

• Adamantia Pollis, "Human Rights in Liberal, Socialist, and Third World Perspective," reading # 10 in C&W: 146-156.
• Asborn Eide, "Realization of Social and Economic Rights and the Minimum Threshold Approach," reading # 11 in C&W: 158-166.
• Hector Gros Espiell, "The Right to Development as a Human Right," reading # 12 in C&W: 167-174.
• Hurst Hannum, " Self Determination as a Human Right," reading # 13 in C&W: 175-184.
• Edith Brown Weiss, "Planetary Rights," reading # 14 in C&W: 187-197.
• Philip Alston, "Peace as a Human Right," reading # 15 in C&W:198-207.
• Symposium Issue of Health and Human Rights 1:2 (1995), especially Nahid F.Toubia, "From Health Or Human Rights to Health And Human Rights," and June Osborn, "Health and Human Rights: An Inseparable Synergy," and Aldred Nurfeld and Ruth Mathieson, "Empirical Dimensions of Discrimination Against Disabled People."
• Ted Robert Gurr and Barbara Harff, "The Rights of Collectivities: Principles and Procedures in Measuring the Human Rights Status of Communal Political Groups," in Jabine and Claude, Human Rights and Statistics, PP. 159-187.
• CH 98-122, especially for discussion: David A. Hamburg, "Science and Technology in a World Transformed"; and "New Risks of Prejudice, Ethnocentrism and Violence."

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