Dealing with Human Rights
Asian and Western Views on the Value of Human Rights
Edited by Martha Meijer
Paperback: 978 1 56549 128 1
Price: $23.95  

Publisher: Kumarian Press
September 2001 , 192 pp., 5" x 8"
*Engaging essays by scholars and world leaders involved with human rights
*Focuses on Asia and the Middle East

Adopted by the UN more than fifty years ago, the practical application of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights remains far from ideal. Violations continue while politicians debate the universality and relativism of human rights. Composed of essays by scholars and world leaders including the President of South Korea and Nobel Peace Prize winner, Kim Dae Jung, this book reflects different cultural perspectives and current thinking on enforcing human rights in international relations.

Table of Contents:
1) The Universal Declaration of Human Rights: Origins, Significance, and Future --Daan Bronkhorst; 2) ‘Asian Values’ and the Universality of Human Rights --Xiaorong Li; 3) Beyond Eurocentrism: The Need for a Multicultural Understanding of Human Rights --Farish A. Noor; 4) Culture is Destiny: Fareed Zakaria in Conversation with Lee Kuan Yew --Lee Kuan Yew; 5) Is Culture Destiny? The Myth of Asia’s Anti-Democratic Values: A Response to Lee Kuan Yew --Kim Dae Jung; 6) Human Rights are not for Sale: On Universality and Conditionality --Willem van Genugten; 7) The Price of Just Trade Measures: The Sanctions Against Iraq --Hadewych Hazelzet; 8) The Human Dimension: Human Rights Impact Assessment as an instrument --Martha Meijer


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"Whether discussing the universalist or the culturally specific perspective on the nature of human rights, the need for an ethical dimension in international trade practices, or the indispensability of a human rights impact assessment as a foreign policy instrument, Dealing with Human Rights never ceases to challenge and provoke. It reflects the best traditions of human rights scholarship."
- George Andreopoulos, The City University of New York