The Future of Human Rights

The thirteen essays in this volume provide thematic assessments of the current state of global human rights programs as well as prescriptions for future human rights policy, with topics including democracy promotion, women's rights, refugee policy, religious freedom, labor standards, as well as economic, social, and cultural rights.

William F. Schulz served as Executive Director of Amnesty International USA from 1994 to 2006. He is a Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress; a Presidential Fellow at Simmons College in Boston; and an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Wagner School of New York University. Schulz is author of two books on human rights: In Our Own Best Interest: How Defending Human Rights Benefits Us All and Tainted Legacy: 9/11 and the Ruin of Human Rights. He is the editor of The Phenomenon of Torture: Readings and Commentary, also published by the University of Pennsylvania Press.