Human Rights in Crisis

Alice Bullard is Associate Professor of History, Technology and Society and a member of the Human Rights Initiative of Georgia Institute of Technology, USA.

• Contents: Introduction, Alice Bullard; Part I The Post 9/11 Climate: Human rights law, executive powers and torture in the post 9/11 era, Lisa Hajjar; Human rights advocates in the post 9/11 era, Ashley Barr. Part II Defining Human Rights in an Era of Controversy: The body counts: civilian casualties and the crisis of human rights, Amy Ross; International human rights law: struggling between apology and utopia, Richard Burchill; Women's human rights in the 21st century: crisis, challenge, and opportunity, Marsha A. Freeman. Part III Pursuing Human Rights and Prosecuting Violators: The Center for Justice and Accountability: holding human rights abusers responsible in the United States and abroad, Matt Eisenbrandt; Human trafficking and migration, Dina Francesca Haynes; Doctors without borders and the moral economy of pharmaceuticals, Peter Redfield; Conclusion, Alice Bullard; Index.

'Alice Bullard's superbly edited collection opens a wide array of new vistas bearing on the theory and practice of human rights, with a special focus on issues surfacing since 9/11. A valuable contribution of the volume is to lay down the foundations for a sociological approach to human rights. Richard Falk, Princeton University and UCSB, USA 'Covering topics as diverse as women's rights and body counts, torture and trafficking, this is a truly interdisciplinary effort. The book draws on fields such as law and anthropology, geography and medicine, and provides a valuable addition to the shelf of any serious and eclectic reader in the field of human rights.' Richard J. Wilson,American University, USA