Accountability/Accountable 3 --
Advice and Consent of the U.S. Senate 4 --
Alien Tort Claims Act (ATCA) 6 --
American Convention on Human Rights (ACHR) 7 --
American Declaration of the Rights and Duties of Man (ADHR) 7 --
Arbitrary Arrest/Detention 10 --
Bureau of Human Rights, Democracy and Labor 22 --
Collective Human Rights 30 --
Collective Punishment 30 --
Command Responsibility 31 --
Commission on Human Rights 32 --
Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe 33 --
Communication/Complaint Procedures 34 --
Complementarity of Judicial Systems 35 --
Compliance with Human Rights Norms 36 --
Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE) 37 --
Conscientious Objection 37 --
Convention against Torture, Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CAT) 38 --
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) 39 --
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (CERD) 39 --
Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide 39 --
Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) 40 --
Corporal Punishment 40 --
Country-Specific Legislation 42 --
Crimes against Humanity 43 --
Crimes against Peace 44 --
Cruel Treatment or Punishment 45 --
Cultural Human Rights 46 --
Cultural Relativism 47 --
Culture of Human Rights 48 --
Culture of Impunity 48 --
Customary International Law 51 --
Declaration/Declarations 53 --
Declaration of Independence 54 --
Degrading Treatment or Punishment 54 --
Demonize/Demonization 55 --
Derogation/Derogable Human Rights 58 --
Double Standard/Dual Standard 65 --
Economic Human Rights 71 --
Effective Domestic Remedy 72 --
Entry into Force (EIF) 73 --
Equality/Equality before the Law 74 --
Executive Agreements (EA) 79 --
Executive Orders (EO) 80 --
Exhaustion of Domestic Remedies 81 --
Extrajudicial Killing 83 --
First Generation Human Rights 87 --
Forced Disappearance 89 --
Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act (FSIA) 90 --
Free and Fair Elections 92 --
Freedom of Expression 93 --
Fundamental Rights/Freedoms 94 --
General Human Rights Legislation 97 --
Geneva Conventions of 1949 (GC) 97 --
Genocide/Genocide Convention 98 --
Gross Human Rights Violation 100 --
Habeas Corpus Proceedings 103 --
Hard Core Human Rights 103 --
Helsinki Final Act of 1975/Helsinki Accords 106 --
High Commissioner for Human Rights 107 --
Human Rights Committee 110 --
Human Rights Reports 112 --
Human Rights Violation 113 --
Humanitarian Intervention 113 --
Implementing Legislation 116 --
Inalienable Rights 118 --
Incommunicado Detention 119 --
Independent and Impartial Judiciary 119 --
Indigenous Peoples or Populations 120 --
Indiscriminate Attack/Force 122 --
Individual Complaint 123 --
Individual Criminal Responsibility 123 --
Inherent Human Rights 124 --
Inhuman Treatment or Punishment 125 --
Inhumane Treatment 127 --
Inter-Governmental Organization (IGO) 128 --
Internally Displaced Person (IDP) 128 --
International Bill of Rights 129 --
International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) 130 --
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) 131 --
International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) 133 --
International Criminal Court (ICC) 133 --
International Criminal Law 135 --
International Financial Institution (IFI) Legislation 136 --
International Human Rights Law 137 --
Interstate Complaint 138 --
Involuntary Servitude 140 --
Jackson Vanik Amendment 141 --
Law of Armed Conflict 143 --
Liberty and Security of Person 145 --
Methods or Means of Combat 149 --
Minority/Minority Rights 151 --
Most Favored Nation (MFN) Trading Status 153 --
Multilateral Forum 154 --
National Self-Interest 157 --
Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) 160 --
Noninterference with Internal Affairs 161 --
Non-Self-Executing Treaty 163 --
Nuremberg Charter and Rules 164 --
Nuremberg Principles 165 --
On-Site Investigation/Fact Finding 167 --
Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) 168 --
Organization of American States (OAS) 169 --
Political Correctness/Politically Correct 175 --
Political Human Rights 176 --
Pretrial Detention 178 --
Prisoner of Conscience (POC) 179 --
Prisoner of War (POW) 179 --
Prolonged Arbitrary Detention 180 --
Public International Law 183 --
Racial Discrimination 185 --
Regional Human Rights System or Regime 189 --
Reservations, Declarations, and Understandings (RDUs/RUDs) 192 --
Reverse Discrimination 194 --
Second Generation Human Rights 197 --
Self-Determination 199 --
Self-Executing Treaty 199 --
Social Human Rights 202 --
Sovereignty Proviso 205 --
Special Rapporteur 205 --
State Responsibility for Injury to Aliens 208 --
Sub-Commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities 209 --
Substantive Rights 209 --
Third Generation Human Rights 213 --
Torture Victim Protection Act of 1992 (TVPA) 215 --
Treaty/International Instrument 216 --
Treaty Monitoring/Supervising Body 218 --
United Nations (U.N.) Charter 219 --
Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) 220 --
Universal Jurisdiction 220 --
Unnecessary Suffering 222 --
War Crimes Act of 1996 224 --
Women's Human Rights 225 --
A Word of Introduction 233 --
U.S.-Related Documents 246 --
International Labour Organization Documents 601 --
Organization of American States Documents 604 --
Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe Documents 627 --
Humanitarian Law and International Criminal Law Documents 634 --
A. Charts of the International Protection of Human Rights 725 --
B. Charts of the U.N. System for the Protection of Human Rights 729 --
C. What Americans Think About Human Rights in the United States 734 --
D. Substantive Human Rights Found in the International Bill of Rights 740 --
E. How an International Human Rights Norm Becomes U.S. Law 742 --
F. Status of Human Rights Treaties in the United States 743 --
G. Selected U.S. Legislation 745 --
H. Selected Case Decisions 803 --
I. Spectrum of Law Applicable in the United States 907.
