People's Rights [Paperback]

The right to self-determination has been a driving force in international law and politics through much of the post-World War II period. In the 1970s it was joined by a number of other human rights attributed to peoples rather than to individuals, including rights to development, peace, a clean environment, and humanitarian assistance. In this volume the current and future significance of these so-called third-generation solidarity rights are examined by leading experts.

Peoples' Rights: The State of the Art at the Beginning of the 21st Century,Philip Alston
The Right of Self-Determination in International Law: Its Development and Future,James Crawford
Reconciling Five Competing Conceptual Structures of Indigenous People's Claims in International and Comparative Law,Benedict Kingsbury
Minority Rights Revisited: New Glimpses of an Old Issue,Peter Leuprecht
Globalization and the Right to Development,Anne Orford
Environmental Human Rights,Dinah Shelton

Overall, this is a timely and informative volume ... the volume's most distinctive contribution, namely, its anti-essentialist perspective on people's rights and the elucidation of the ways in which rights can have both empowering and contstraining effects depending on their discoursive articulations and the political ends that the latter serve. - Modern Law Review