Introduction: Activating Human Rights&ELISABETH PORTER AND BADEN OFFORD 1
Part Ⅰ Human Rights Theory and Action 13
Activating Human Rights through Questions of Value and Activism&BADEN OFFORD 13
Human Rights beyond the 'Three Generations'&JIM IFE 29
Same-Sex Sexualities and the Globalisation of Human Rights&CARL F. STYCHIN 47
Human Rights and Conflict Resolution:Are They Mutually Dependent in a Divided Society?&MONICA MCWILLIAMS 67
Part Ⅱ Organisational Defences of Human Rights 89
'Amnesty for Truth': A Violation of Human Rights by South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission?&SAM GARKAWE 89
Activating Women's Human Rights:Side Steps and Leaps Forward at Amnesty International&LARA FERGUS 109
Democratisation and Capacity-Building:An Uncomfortable Alliance in the East Timor National Elections 2001-2002&MICHAEL MORISON 133
Part Ⅲ Human Rights in International Contexts 155
Human Rights: Dirty Words in Singapore&CHEE SOON JUAN 155
The Resolution of Property Rights of Refugees and Displaced Persons and Ethnic Crisis Management:Bosnia Herzegovina and Kashmir Compared&KULWANT SINGH 175
Human Rights Violation and Environmental Degradation in the Niger Delta Region of Nigeria&KIIKPOYE K. AARON 193
Part Ⅳ Activating Particular Rights 219
Reclaiming Civility:Disability, Diversity and Human Rights&GERARD GOGGIN AND CHRISTOPHER NEWELL 219
Same-Sex Domestic Rights and Nationalist Politics&CHANTAL NADEAU 239
Internationalising, Humanising and Diversifying:The One Nation State&IRENE WATSON 257
Contributors 273
Index 279