Human rights concepts and discourse -- The human rights regime : background and birth -- Civil and political rights -- Economic and social rights -- National security, terrorism and the law of armed conflict -- Rights or duties as organizing concepts -- Conflict in culture, tradition and practices : challenges to universalism -- The United Nations human rights system -- Treaty bodies : the ICCPR Human Rights Committee -- International human rights fact-finding -- Regional arrangements -- Vertical interpenetration : international human rights law within states' legal and political orders -- Horizontal interpenetration : transnational influence and enforcement of human rights -- Measuring and evaluating human rights performance -- Massive human rights tragedies : prosecutions and truth commissions -- Non-state actors and human rights -- Human rights, development and climate change.