International Human Rights: Law, Policy, and Process

1. Introduction to international human rights -- Treaties. 2. Ratification and implementation of treaties : the covenant on economic, social and cultural rights -- 3. State reporting under international human rights treaties (United States) -- 4. State reporting under international human rights treaties (Iran); cultural relativism -- Gross violations. 5. What U.N. procedures are available for violations of human rights? ECOSOC resolutions 1235 and 1503; thematic procedures -- 6. Collective and unilateral humanitarian intervention -- 7. Can human rights violations be punished and victims assured redress? -- 8. International human rights fact-finding -- 9. How can the U.S. government influence respect for human rights in other countries? -- Use of adjudicative remedies. 10. How are pronouncements of human rights in international instruments interpreted? The Baby Boy case in the Inter-American Commission -- 11. What can U.S. lawyers learn from the European human rights system? -- 12. U.S. adjudicative remedies for violations occurring outside the U.S. : Filartiga and its progeny -- 13. U.S. remedies for human rights violations within the U.S. : alien children in detention -- 14. Refugee and asylum law; jurisprudence of human rights; cultural relativism -- Causes of human rights violations. 15. What seem to be the causes of human rights violations and how might knowledge as to causation be useful?