Human Rights for the 21st Century: Foundation for Responsible Hope [Paperback]

Leading specialists and activists from Russia and the USA join, in this volume, to offer a searching assessment of human rights in their own countries and in the world at large. They reflect on past history, present problems associated with system breakdown and decline, and the obstacles and opportunities on the way to the realisation of human rights in this uncertain post-Cold War era and the millennium that is now dawning. The participants in the discussions detailed here include Yelena Bonner, Viktor Chkhikvadze, Norman Dorsen, Riane Eisler, David Forsythe, Paula Garb, Charles Henry, Susan Heuman, Irina Lediakh, Vladimir Kudriavtsev, Pavel Litvinov, Richard Schifter, Henry Shue, Evgenii Skripilev, Vladimir Vlashihin, Oleg Vorobiev and the editors.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 1011, 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 Vorobievl1