Sexual Orientation: A Human Right: An Essay on International Human Rights Law

ISBN-13: 9780792330189 / Angielski / Twarda / 1995 / 440 str.

Eric Heinze

Opis

Examines sexual orientation from the viewpoint of international human rights law. It does not argue for specific rights to be introduced into human rights law but examines how existing legal norms should be construed to include rights against discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation.

Spis treści

Abbreviations.
Part 1: The Oldest and Newest of Problems.
1. Less Equal?
2. Sexual Orientation and Sexual Minorities.
Part 2: From Western Concepts to Universal Law?
3. The Problem of Universality.
4. Rights, New and Old.
5. Practical Concerns.
6. Rights of Sexual Orientation in the World Today.
Part 3: Methodology.
7. Rights, New and Extant.
8. Jurisprudential Foundations.
Part 4: Fundamental Rights of Sexual Orientation.
9. Personhood.
10. Privacy.
11. Liberty.
12. Equality.
13. Towards a Jurisprudence of Sexual Minorities.
14. Other Rights.
Part 5: Towards Positive Law.
15. A Model Declaration.
16. Recommendations.
Appendix: Excerpts from International Human Rights Instruments.
Works Cited.
Index.