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This insightful book addresses human rights from the perspective of those groups whose rights are especially vulnerable to abuse, with particular reference to stateless or internally-displaced persons, linguistic, cultural and sexual minorities and disabled people.

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Contents:AcknowledgementsIntroduction David Weissbrodt and Mary RumseyPART I NON-CITIZENS AND INTERNALLY DISPLACED PERSONSA Refugees1. Tom J. Farer (1995), 'How the International System Copes with Involuntary Migration: Norms, Institutions and State Practice'B Asylum Seekers2. Jacqueline Bhabha (2002), 'Internationalist Gatekeepers?: The Tension Between Asylum Advocacy and Human Rights'C Migrant Workers3. Ryszard Cholewinski (2007–2008), 'The Human and Labor Rights of Migrants: Visions of Equality'D Stateless People4. David Weissbrodt and Clay Collins (2006), 'The Human Rights of Stateless Persons'E Internally Displaced Persons5. Walter Kälin (1998), 'The Guiding Principles on International Displacement – Introduction'F Non-citizens Generally6. 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 MINORITIESA Generally7. Nigel S. Rodley (1995), 'Conceptual Problems in the Protection of Minorities: International Legal Developments'B Indigenous Peoples8. 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 Lesbians10. 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 Minorities12. Robert Dunbar (2001), 'Minority Language Rights in International Law'PART III PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIESA HIV / AIDS13. Ellen M. Walker (2007), 'The HIV/AIDS Pandemic and Human Rights: A Continuum Approach'B The Elderly14. Diego Rodríguez-Pinzón and Claudia Martin (2003), 'The International Human Rights Status of Elderly Persons'C Children15. Rita Shackel (2003), 'The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child: A Review of its Successes and Future Directions'D Mental Disabilities16. 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 Generally17. Michael Ashley Stein (2007), 'Disability Human Rights'

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