HUMAN RIGHTS

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Rights Theory

Rights Theory -http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/r/rights.htm

The Ethics of Rights: Contemporary Theories Heinmann's Chapter on Rights theory-http://ethics.acusd.edu/e2/ChapterSeven.html

Ethics Updates - Human Rights- http://ethics.acusd.edu/rights.html

Understanding Human Rights- http://www.un.org/Pubs/CyberSchoolBus/humanrights/about/understanding.htm

The Basis of Liberty-Rights Robert Bass -http://ernie.bgsu.edu/~roberth/basis.html

Ethical Definitions of Rights

Kemerling's Definition- http://people.delphi.com/gkemerling/dy/r.htm#rights

Blackwell's Definition- http://www.blackwellpublishers.co.uk/PHILOS/philglos.htm

Human Rights Texts

Universal Declaration of Human Rights- http://www.hrweb.org/legal/udhr.html

UN Documents relating to Human Rights- http://www.hrweb.org/legal/undocs.html

French Declaration of the Rights of Man- http://www.eff.org/pub/CAF/civil-liberty/declaration_of_the_rights_of_man.txt

European Convention on Human Rights- http://www.hrcr.org/docs/euroconv.html

Human Rights Organizations and Reports

Human Rights Web- http://www.hrweb.org/

Amnesty International UK- http://www.amnesty.org.uk/fastindex.html

Human Rights in Action- http://www.un.org/Pubs/CyberSchoolBus/humanrights/index.html

Human Rights Watch - Home- http://www.hrw.org/hrw/index.html

Human Rights Watch I Report Introduction- http://www.hrw.org/hrw/worldreport99/intro/index.html

Annual Human Rights Report of 1999- http://www.hrw.org/hrw/worldreport99/index.html

BBC discussion - Has the UNDHR been a success- http://news1.thdo.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/talking_point/newsid_231000/231441.asp

Christians and the Uk Human Rights Bill- http://www.care.org.uk/action/parl_upd/pcu03_06.htm

Britain and Ireland Human Rights Centre Website- http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/rapporteur/

Human rights information- http://www.idt.unit.no/~isfit/human.rights.html