Human Rights for the 21st Century

This collection of papers brings together legal specialists and human rights activists from the US and the Commonwealth of Independent States to discuss their past and recent history, pending problems, and immediate goals in the field of human rights.

Part 1 Human Rights for the 21st Century; Chapter 1 Golden Opportunities, Huge Obstacles, Bertram Gross, Peter Juviler; Chapter 2 Witness to Upheaval, Elena Lukasheva; Part 1a The Ex-USSR: Endings and Beginnings; Chapter 3 Actors in the Drama Speak Out (Berkeley, California, August 10-11, 1989), Richard Schifter, Viktor Chkhikvadze, Elena Bonner, Andrei Sakharov, Pavel Litvinov; Chapter 4 Russia Turned Upside Down, Peter Juviler; Chapter 5 Human Rights: A Time for Hard Decisions, Elena Lukasheva; Chapter 6 Individual Rights Before October 1917: A Russian Perspective, Evgenii Skripilev; Chapter 7 Prerevolutionary New Thinking, Susan Heuman; Chapter 8 Postcommunist New Thinking on Human Rights, Vladimir Kudriavtsev, Elena Lukasheva; Chapter 9 The Legal Status of Foreign Employees in Russia, Paula Garb; Part 2 The USA: Progress and Regress; Chapter 10 The Human Rights Paradox, Bertram Gross; Chapter 11 A Russian View of U.S. Principles and Practice, Irina Lediakh, Oleg Vorobiev; Chapter 12 Civil Liberties in the United States: Nature And Limits, Norman Dorsen; Chapter 13 Civil Liberties in the United States: Changing Soviet Perspectives, Vasilii Vlasikhin; Chapter 14 U.S. Foreign Policy and Human Rights; Chapter 15 A U.S. Comment on the Essay by Vladimir Kartashkin, David Forsythe; Part 3 Toward the Twenty-first Century; Chapter 16 A Common Global Home, Vladimir Kartashkin; Chapter 17 Goals for a Stronger United Nations, Bertram Gross, Vladimir Kartashkin; Chapter 18 Human Rights Education for a New World Order, Charles Henry; Chapter 19 Roles of Women and Men: Integrating the Public and the Private, Riane Eisler; Chapter 20 A Healthier United States, Bertram Gross; Chapter 21 Negative Duties Toward All, Positive Duties Toward Some, Henry Shue; Chapter 22 Rethinking Rights Without the Enemy, Peter Juviler;