Vulnerable and Marginalised Groups and Human Rights

Edited by the late David Weissbrodt, formerly Regents Professor and Fredrikson and Byron Professor of Law and Mary Rumsey, Willamette University, US

• Contents:AcknowledgementsIntroduction David Weissbrodt and Mary Rumsey PART I NON-CITIZENS AND INTERNALLY DISPLACED PERSONS A Refugees 1. Tom J. Farer (1995), ‘How the International System Copes with Involuntary Migration: Norms, Institutions and State Practice’B Asylum Seekers 2. Jacqueline Bhabha (2002), ‘Internationalist Gatekeepers?: The Tension Between Asylum Advocacy and Human Rights’C Migrant Workers 3. Ryszard Cholewinski (2007–2008), ‘The Human and Labor Rights of Migrants: Visions of Equality’D Stateless People 4. David Weissbrodt and Clay Collins (2006), ‘The Human Rights of Stateless Persons’E Internally Displaced Persons 5. Walter Kälin (1998), ‘The Guiding Principles on International Displacement – Introduction’F Non-citizens Generally 6. David Weissbrodt and Stephen Meili (2010), ‘Human Rights and Protection of Non-citizens: Whither Universality and Indivisibility of Rights?’PART II LINGUISTIC, CULTURAL AND SEXUAL MINORITIES A Generally 7. Nigel S. Rodley (1995), ‘Conceptual Problems in the Protection of Minorities: International Legal Developments’B Indigenous Peoples 8. Robert T. Coulter (2009), ‘The U.N. Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples: A Historic Change in International Law’9. Elsa Stamatopoulou (1994), ‘Indigenous Peoples and the United Nations: Human Rights as a Developing Dynamic’C Gays and Lesbians 10. Douglas Sanders (2010), ‘Out at the UN’ 11. Suzanne M. Marks (2006), ‘Global Recognition of Human Rights for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender People’D Linguistic Minorities 12. Robert Dunbar (2001), ‘Minority Language Rights in International Law’PART III PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES A HIV / AIDS 13. Ellen M. Walker (2007), ‘The HIV/AIDS Pandemic and Human Rights: A Continuum Approach’B The Elderly 14. Diego Rodríguez-Pinzón and Claudia Martin (2003), ‘The International Human Rights Status of Elderly Persons’C Children 15. Rita Shackel (2003), ‘The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child: A Review of its Successes and Future Directions’D Mental Disabilities 16. Lawrence O. Gostin and Lance Gable (2004), ‘The Human Rights of Persons with Mental Disabilities: A Global Perspective on the Application of Human Rights Principles to Mental Health’E Disabilities Generally 17. Michael Ashley Stein (2007), ‘Disability Human Rights’