NCJ Number
176025
Date Published
1996
Length
411 pages
Annotation
This is a review of human rights practices in 74 countries.
Abstract
The volume examines major events in the area of human rights, the degree of freedom with which local and international organizations monitor human rights, and the role in promoting or inhibiting human rights played by the international community, especially the United Nations, the United States, and the European Union. While the major global powers wavered in their commitment to human rights, 1996 saw the emergence of new and powerful sources of support for the human rights cause. A wide variety of governments worked at the national level to hold abusive officials to account for serious human rights offenses and at the international level to overcome the reluctance of the major powers to establish a permanent International Criminal Court for the worst human rights offenders. The continued expansion of a global economy, by linking consumers and manufacturers across wide distances, spawned a growing interest in labor rights and the human rights practices of multinational corporations. Publications (1996), staffs and committees