Field missions
Human rights as moral concepts
Human rights as political concepts
Human rights as legal concepts
The plan of the book
Sovereignty and structure
Sovereignty and its exercise
Between the national and international
Sovereignty and its distribution
Human rights : three generations or one?
Generations as chronological categories
Generations as analytical categories
And political rights as monitors of sovereignty's exercise
Social and economic rights as monitors of sovereignty's exercise
International law at work
Labour rights as instrumental rights
Labour rights as universal rights
Labour rights and the structure of international law
The ambiguous appeal of minority rights
The moral ambiguities of minority rights
The political ambiguities of minority rights
The interdependence of sovereignty and minority protection
International indigenous recognition
Indigenous territories and the acquisition of sovereignty
Indigenous recognition and the international labour organization
Indigenous recognition and the united nations
The purpose of international indigenous rights
Self-determination in three movements
Self-determination and the legality of colonialism
The many paradoxes of self-determination
Bridging international law and distributive justice
Global poverty and the right to development
The emergence of the right
Implementing the right
From global poverty to international law
The right to development and the rise and fall of colonialism.
The sovereignty of human rights by Patrick Macklem. ISBN 9780190267315. Published by Oxford University Press in 2015. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.