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Theory and Reality in the International Protection of Human Rights. By J. Shand Watson. Ardsley NY: Transnational Publishers, 1999. Pp. x, 325. Index. $115.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 March 2017

Makau Mutua
Makau Mutua*
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SUNY-Buffalo School of Law
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American Journal of International Law , Volume 95 , Issue 1 , January 2001 , pp. 255 - 257
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References

1 See Steiner, Henry J. & Alston, Philip, International Human Rights in Context: Law, Politics, Morals 3 (2d ed. 2000)Google Scholar.

2 Louis Henkin, the Age of Rights, at ix-x (1990)

3 See Implications of International Response to Events in Rwanda, Kosovo Examined by Secretary-General, in Address to General Assembly, UN Press Release GA/9595 (Sept. 20, 1999), obtainable from <http://www.un.org> (UN NewsCentre); wa Mutua, Makau, Looking Past the Human Rights Committee: An Argument for De-Marginalizing Enforcement, 4 Buff. Hum. Rts. L. Rev. 211 (1998)Google Scholar.

4 See UN Dep’t of Public Information, United Nations and Rwanda: 1993-1996 (1996), UN Sales No. E.96.I.20; Rosenblum, Peter, Dodging the Challenge, 10 Harv.Hum.Rts.J. 313 (1997)Google Scholar.

5 See Report of the Secretary-General Pursuant to Paragraph 5 of Security Council Resolution 955, UN Doc. S/1995/134 (1994).

6 See SC Res. 808 (Feb. 22, 1993).

7 Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, July 17, 1998, UN Doc. A/Conf.138/9* (1998).

8 See The United Nations and Human Rights: A Critical Appraisal (Philip Alston ed., 1992).

9 See Heifer, Laurence R. & Anne-Marie, Slaughter, Towards a Theory of Supranational Effective Adjudication, 107 Yale L. J. 273 (1997)Google Scholar.

10 See Medina, Cecilia, The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights: Reflections on a Joint Venture, 12 Hum. Rts. Q. 439 (1990)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

11 See Anselm Odinkalu, Chidi, The Individual Complaints Procedure of the African Commission on Human andPeoples’ Rights: A Preliminary Assessment, 8 Transnat’l L. & Contemp. Probs. 359 (1998)Google Scholar.

12 wa Mutua, Makau, Hope and Despair for a New South Africa: The Limits of Rights Discourse, 10 Harv. Hum. Rts. J. 63, 65 (1997)Google Scholar.

13 Henkin, supra note 2, at ix

14 See Mutua, Makau, Savages, Victims, and Saviors: The Metaphor of Human Rights, 42 Harv. Int’l L.J. 201 (2001)Google Scholar; wa Mutua, Makau, The Ideology of Human Rights, 36 Va. J. Int’l L. 589 (1996)Google Scholar.