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

University of California at Berkeley

Boalt Law School

International Human Rights

International Human Rights - Course 263

Prof. Dr. Theresia Degener, LL.M.

Human Rights Institutions

Introduction

• Frank Newman & David Weissbrodt. International Human Rights, 1- 17 ©1990 by Anderson Publishing Co, Cincinnati

Regional Arrangements

• Henry Steiner J. & Philip Alston. International Human Rights in Context, ©1996 by Clarendon Press, Oxford
  1. Part C.10.A: Comparison of universal and regional system
  2. Part C. 10. B: The European Convention system
  3. Part. C.10.C: The Inter-American system: Promoting democracy
  4. Part C.10.D: The African system

Theory and History of Human Rights Law

• Henry SteinerJ. & Philip Alston. International Human Rights in Context, © 1996 by Clarendon Press, Oxford
  1. Part B.2.A: Basic concepts and processes
  2. Part B.3.A: Foundation of the system
  3. Part B.3.B: The continuing role of custom and the significance of UN resolutions
  4. Part B.4.B: Universalism and cultural relativism

Economic and Social Rights

• Henry SteinerJ. & Philip Alston. International Human Rights in Context, 1996 by Clarendon Press, Oxford
  1. Part B.5.A: Overview and historical background
  2. Part B.5.B: The challenge of economic and social rights
  3. Part B.5.C: An obligation-based approach
  4. Part B.5.E: The question of justiciability

Institutionalization and Implementation

• Henry Steiner J. & Philip Alston: International Human Rights in Context, 1996 by Clarendon Press, Oxford
  1. Part C.6: The need for institutions: Introductory ideas
  2. Part C.7.A: Development of the UN human rights system
  3. Part C.7.C: The UN Commission's main procedures for responding to violations
  4. Part C.7.D: Overview and evaluation
  5. Part. C.9 : Treaty Organs: The ICCPR Human Rights Committee

Disabled Persons and Human Rights

• Theresia Degener: Disabled persons and human rights: The legal framework, 9 - 39, Theresia Degener & Yolan Koster-Dreese (eds.): Human Rights and Disabled Persons, © 1995 by Kluwer Academic Publishers Group, The Netherlands
• Aart Hendriks: The significance of equality and non-discrimination for the protection of rights and dignity of disabled persons, 40 - 62, Theresia Degener & Yolan Koster-Dreese (eds.): Human Rights and Disabled Persons, © 1995 by Kluwer Academic Publishers Group, The Netherlands
• Bengt Lindqvist: Standard rules in the disability field -a new United Nations instrument, 63 - 68, Theresia Degener & Yolan Koster-Dreese (eds.): Human Rights and Disabled Persons, © 1995 by Kluwer Academic Publishers Group, The Netherlands
• Gerard Quinn: The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and disability: A conceptual framework, Theresia Degener & Yolan Koster-Dreese (eds.): Human Rights and Disabled Persons, © 1995 by Kluwer Academic Publishers Group, The Netherlands
• Philip Alston: Disability and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, 94 -105, Theresia Degener & Yolan Koster-Dreese (eds.): Human Rights and Disabled Persons, © 1995 by Kluwer Academic Publishers Group, The Netherlands
• Eric Rosenthal & Leonard S. Rubinstein: International human rights advocacy under the "Principles for the Protection of Persons with Mental Illnes," International Journal of Law and Psychiatry, Vol 16, 257 - 300, 1993
• Manfred Nowak & Walter Suntinger: The right of disabled persons not to be subjected to torture, inhuman and degrading treatment or punishment, 117 - 130, Theresia Degener & Yolan Koster-Dreese (eds.): Human Rights and Disabled Persons, © 1995 by Kluwer Academic Publishers Group, The Netherlands
• Aart Hendriks & Theresia Degener: The evolution of a European perspective on disability legislation, European Journal of Health Law, I : 343 - 365, 1994
• Lisa Waddington: A European right to employment for disabled people? 106 - 116, Theresia Degener & Yolan Koster-Dreese (eds.): Human Rights and Disabled Persons, © 1995 by Kluwer Academic Publishers Group, The Netherlands
• Henry Steiner J. & Philip Alston: International Human Rights in Context, © 1996 by Clarendon Press, Oxford
  1. Part E.13: Women's rights
  2. Part B.4.D: Illustration: The debate over female circumcision
• Theresia Degener: Disabled women and international human rights, 1 - 17
• Jennifer Kern: Across boundaries: The emergence of an international movement of women with disabilities, Hastings Women's Law Journal, Vol.8, No.2, 233 - 254, 1997

Bioethics and Human Rights

• Virginia Leary: Implications of a right to health, 481 - 493, K.E. Mahoney and P. Mahoney (eds.). Human Rights in the Twenty-First Century, © 1993 by Kluwer, The Netherlands
• Katarina Tomasevski: The right to health for people with disabilities, 131 - 146, Theresia Degener & Yolan Koster-Dreese (eds.): Human Rights and Disabled Persons, © 1995 by Kluwer Academic Publishers Group, The Netherlands
• Ian Kennedy: Experimentation on Human Subjects, 853 - 857, K.E. Mahoney and P. Mahoney (eds.). Human Rights in the Twenty-First Century, © 1993 by Kluwer, The Netherlands
• Renate Klein: The impact of reproductive and genetic engineering on women's bodily integrity and human dignity, 889 - 904, K.E. Mahoney and P. Mahoney (eds.). Human Rights in the Twenty-First Century, © 1993 by Kluwer, The Netherlands
• Margrit Eichler: Human rights and the new reproductive technologies - individual or collective choices?, 875 - 887, K.E. Mahoney and P. Mahoney (eds.). Human Rights in the Twenty-First Century, © 1993 by Kluwer, The Netherlands
• Ruth Hubbard: Abortion and disability: Who should and who should not inhabit the world?, 187 - 200, Lennard J. Davis (ed.): The Disability Studies Reader, © 1997 by Routledge, U.K.
• Theresia Degener: Female self-determination between feminist claims and 'voluntary' eugenics, between 'rights' and ethics, Issues in Reproductive and Genetic Engineering, Vol. 3, No.2, 87 - 99, 1990

The Role of Non-Governmental Organizations

• Irwin Cotler: Human rights as the modern tool of revolution, 7-20, K.E. Mahoney and P. Mahoney (eds.). Human Rights in the Twenty-First Century, © 1993 by Kluwer, The Netherlands
• Henry Steiner, J. & Philip Alston: International Human Rights in Context, 1996 by Clarendon Press, Oxford,
  1. Part C.8: The role of non-governmental organizations

Annex: Instruments

• Charter of the United Nations (reprinted from Henry Steiner J. & Philip Alston: International Human Rights in Context, 1996 by Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1148 - 1155)
• Universal Declaration of Human Rights (reprinted from Henry Steiner J. & Philip Alston: International Human Rights in Context, 1996 by Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1156 - 1160)
• International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (reprinted from Henry Steiner J. & Philip Alston: International Human Rights in Context, 1996 by Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1161 - 1171)
• Protocols to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (reprinted from Henry Steiner J. & Philip Alston: International Human Rights in Context, 1996 by Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1172 - 1174)
• International Covenant on Social, Economic and Cultural Rights, (reprinted from Henry Steiner J. & Philip Alston: International Human Rights in Context, 1996 by Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1175 - 1181)
• Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (reprinted from Henry Steiner J. & Philip Alston: International Human Rights in Context, 1996 by Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1182 - 1190)
• European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (reprinted from Henry Steiner J. & Philip Alston: International Human Rights in Context, 1996 by Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1191 - 1194)
• Protocols to the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (reprinted from Henry Steiner J. & Philip Alston: International Human Rights in Context, 1996 by Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1200 - 1202)
• American Convention on Human Rights European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (reprinted from Henry Steiner J. & Philip Alston: International Human Rights in Context, 1996 by Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1203 - 1214)
• African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (reprinted from Henry Steiner J. & Philip Alston: International Human Rights in Context, 1996 by Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1191 - 1194)
• Standard Rules for the Equalization of Opportunities for Persons with Disabilities (reprinted from Theresia Degener & Yolan Koster-Dreese (eds.): Human Rights and Disabled Persons, 1995 by Kluwer Academic Publishers Group, The Netherlands, 285 - 319)
• Principles for the Protection of Persons with Mental Illness and the Improvement of Mental Health Care Theresia Degener & Yolan Koster-Dreese (eds.): Human Rights and Disabled Persons, 1995 by Kluwer Academic Publishers Group, The Netherlands, 376 - 392)

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