Micheline R. Ishay is Distinguished Professor of International Studies and Human Rights at the Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver.

Praise for The Human Rights Reader, Third EditionIshay's Human Rights Reader is a monumental work, chronicling the force of human rights ideas and documents in the time they emerged and beyond. For activists like myself, joined in the campaign to forge enduring peace founded on universal rights, this book offers a wealth of knowledge with unparalleled breadth. It is a truly important resource.--Leymah Gbowee, Nobel Peace LaureateThe Human Rights Reader offers a sweeping documentary history of the struggle for human rights. Ishay's selections and commentary go beyond illuminating the intellectual development of human rights discourse to depict emerging challenges that human rights defenders will surely face in coming decades. This volume represents the best form of human rights advocacy, combining scholarly understanding with activist passion while upholding all rights for everyone.--Nadine Strossen, New York Law School (Emerita)Praise for Previous EditionsIn tracing the complex intellectual history of human rights, Micheline Ishay’s insightful and provocative selection of texts illuminates many of today’s most fundamental rights debates. Are human rights Western impositions or universal values? Does globalization advance or undermine them? Do they originate in or constrain religion? Are they the product of socialism or among its victims? Did the anti-colonial movement respond to repression or simply shift its source? None of these questions admits simple answers, but no one should address them without considering the deep and varied perspectives provided in Ishay’s new Human Rights Reader.-- Kenneth Roth, Executive Director, Human Rights WatchMicheline Ishay's excellent collection provides all the material that anyone needs to participate in the critical debates about human rights. Differing views of cultural diversity, economic justice, national self-determination, and humanitarian intervention are fairly and intelligently represented.--Michael Walzer, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJFollowing her masterly History of Human Rights: From Ancient Times to the Era of Globalization, Micheline Ishay now presents us with an extraordinarily rich, original, and illuminating compilation of sources on the history and philosophy of human rights. Insightful introductions to each part provide the appropriate historical context. A ‘must’ for courses on human rights.--David Kretzmer, Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Transitional Justice Institute

• Preface to the Third EditionNew to the Third EditionAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Human Rights: Historical and Contemporary ControversiesPART I: THE ORIGINS: SECULAR, ASIAN, AND MONOTHEISTIC TRADITIONS CHAPTER 1: The Secular Tradition CHAPTER 2: Asian and African Religions and Traditions CHAPTER 3: Monotheistic Religions PART II: THE LEGACY OF EARLY LIBERALISM AND THE ENLIGHTENMENT CHAPTER 4: Liberal Visions of Human Rights CHAPTER 5: How to Promote a Liberal Conception of Human Rights CHAPTER 6: Human Rights for Whom? PART III: THE SOCIALIST CONTRIBUTION AND THE INDUSTRIAL AGECHAPTER 7: Challenging the Liberal Vision of Rights CHAPTER 8: How to Promote a Socialist Perspective of Human Rights? Free Trade, Just War, and International Organizations CHAPTER 9: Human Rights for Whom?PART IV: THE RIGHT TO SELF-DETERMINATION AND THE IMPERIAL AGECHAPTER 10: On the National Question PART V: HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE ERA OF GLOBALIZATION AND POPULISMCHAPTER 11: Redefining Rights CHAPTER 12: How to Protect and Promote Human Rights?CHAPTER 13: Human Rights for Whom? CHAPTER 14: Debating the Future of Human RightsPART VI: HUMAN RIGHTS AND LEGAL DOCUMENTS: A BRIEF HISTORICAL NARRATIVE CHAPTER 15: Additional Documents

Micheline R. Ishay is Distinguished Professor of International Studies and Human Rights at the Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver.

Praise for The Human Rights Reader, Third EditionIshay's Human Rights Reader is a monumental work, chronicling the force of human rights ideas and documents in the time they emerged and beyond. For activists like myself, joined in the campaign to forge enduring peace founded on universal rights, this book offers a wealth of knowledge with unparalleled breadth. It is a truly important resource.--Leymah Gbowee, Nobel Peace LaureateThe Human Rights Reader offers a sweeping documentary history of the struggle for human rights. Ishay's selections and commentary go beyond illuminating the intellectual development of human rights discourse to depict emerging challenges that human rights defenders will surely face in coming decades. This volume represents the best form of human rights advocacy, combining scholarly understanding with activist passion while upholding all rights for everyone.--Nadine Strossen, New York Law School (Emerita)Praise for Previous EditionsIn tracing the complex intellectual history of human rights, Micheline Ishay’s insightful and provocative selection of texts illuminates many of today’s most fundamental rights debates. Are human rights Western impositions or universal values? Does globalization advance or undermine them? Do they originate in or constrain religion? Are they the product of socialism or among its victims? Did the anti-colonial movement respond to repression or simply shift its source? None of these questions admits simple answers, but no one should address them without considering the deep and varied perspectives provided in Ishay’s new Human Rights Reader.-- Kenneth Roth, Executive Director, Human Rights WatchMicheline Ishay's excellent collection provides all the material that anyone needs to participate in the critical debates about human rights. Differing views of cultural diversity, economic justice, national self-determination, and humanitarian intervention are fairly and intelligently represented.--Michael Walzer, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJFollowing her masterly History of Human Rights: From Ancient Times to the Era of Globalization, Micheline Ishay now presents us with an extraordinarily rich, original, and illuminating compilation of sources on the history and philosophy of human rights. Insightful introductions to each part provide the appropriate historical context. A ‘must’ for courses on human rights.--David Kretzmer, Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Transitional Justice Institute

• Preface to the Third EditionNew to the Third EditionAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Human Rights: Historical and Contemporary ControversiesPART I: THE ORIGINS: SECULAR, ASIAN, AND MONOTHEISTIC TRADITIONS CHAPTER 1: The Secular Tradition CHAPTER 2: Asian and African Religions and Traditions CHAPTER 3: Monotheistic Religions PART II: THE LEGACY OF EARLY LIBERALISM AND THE ENLIGHTENMENT CHAPTER 4: Liberal Visions of Human Rights CHAPTER 5: How to Promote a Liberal Conception of Human Rights CHAPTER 6: Human Rights for Whom? PART III: THE SOCIALIST CONTRIBUTION AND THE INDUSTRIAL AGECHAPTER 7: Challenging the Liberal Vision of Rights CHAPTER 8: How to Promote a Socialist Perspective of Human Rights? Free Trade, Just War, and International Organizations CHAPTER 9: Human Rights for Whom?PART IV: THE RIGHT TO SELF-DETERMINATION AND THE IMPERIAL AGECHAPTER 10: On the National Question PART V: HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE ERA OF GLOBALIZATION AND POPULISMCHAPTER 11: Redefining Rights CHAPTER 12: How to Protect and Promote Human Rights?CHAPTER 13: Human Rights for Whom? CHAPTER 14: Debating the Future of Human RightsPART VI: HUMAN RIGHTS AND LEGAL DOCUMENTS: A BRIEF HISTORICAL NARRATIVE CHAPTER 15: Additional Documents

Micheline R. Ishay is Distinguished Professor of International Studies and Human Rights at the Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver.

Praise for The Human Rights Reader, Third EditionIshay's Human Rights Reader is a monumental work, chronicling the force of human rights ideas and documents in the time they emerged and beyond. For activists like myself, joined in the campaign to forge enduring peace founded on universal rights, this book offers a wealth of knowledge with unparalleled breadth. It is a truly important resource.--Leymah Gbowee, Nobel Peace LaureateThe Human Rights Reader offers a sweeping documentary history of the struggle for human rights. Ishay's selections and commentary go beyond illuminating the intellectual development of human rights discourse to depict emerging challenges that human rights defenders will surely face in coming decades. This volume represents the best form of human rights advocacy, combining scholarly understanding with activist passion while upholding all rights for everyone.--Nadine Strossen, New York Law School (Emerita)Praise for Previous EditionsIn tracing the complex intellectual history of human rights, Micheline Ishay’s insightful and provocative selection of texts illuminates many of today’s most fundamental rights debates. Are human rights Western impositions or universal values? Does globalization advance or undermine them? Do they originate in or constrain religion? Are they the product of socialism or among its victims? Did the anti-colonial movement respond to repression or simply shift its source? None of these questions admits simple answers, but no one should address them without considering the deep and varied perspectives provided in Ishay’s new Human Rights Reader.-- Kenneth Roth, Executive Director, Human Rights WatchMicheline Ishay's excellent collection provides all the material that anyone needs to participate in the critical debates about human rights. Differing views of cultural diversity, economic justice, national self-determination, and humanitarian intervention are fairly and intelligently represented.--Michael Walzer, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJFollowing her masterly History of Human Rights: From Ancient Times to the Era of Globalization, Micheline Ishay now presents us with an extraordinarily rich, original, and illuminating compilation of sources on the history and philosophy of human rights. Insightful introductions to each part provide the appropriate historical context. A ‘must’ for courses on human rights.--David Kretzmer, Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Transitional Justice Institute

• Preface to the Third EditionNew to the Third EditionAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Human Rights: Historical and Contemporary ControversiesPART I: THE ORIGINS: SECULAR, ASIAN, AND MONOTHEISTIC TRADITIONS CHAPTER 1: The Secular Tradition CHAPTER 2: Asian and African Religions and Traditions CHAPTER 3: Monotheistic Religions PART II: THE LEGACY OF EARLY LIBERALISM AND THE ENLIGHTENMENT CHAPTER 4: Liberal Visions of Human Rights CHAPTER 5: How to Promote a Liberal Conception of Human Rights CHAPTER 6: Human Rights for Whom? PART III: THE SOCIALIST CONTRIBUTION AND THE INDUSTRIAL AGECHAPTER 7: Challenging the Liberal Vision of Rights CHAPTER 8: How to Promote a Socialist Perspective of Human Rights? Free Trade, Just War, and International Organizations CHAPTER 9: Human Rights for Whom?PART IV: THE RIGHT TO SELF-DETERMINATION AND THE IMPERIAL AGECHAPTER 10: On the National Question PART V: HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE ERA OF GLOBALIZATION AND POPULISMCHAPTER 11: Redefining Rights CHAPTER 12: How to Protect and Promote Human Rights?CHAPTER 13: Human Rights for Whom? CHAPTER 14: Debating the Future of Human RightsPART VI: HUMAN RIGHTS AND LEGAL DOCUMENTS: A BRIEF HISTORICAL NARRATIVE CHAPTER 15: Additional Documents