Human Rights: The Midlife Crisis

Review of: The Evolution of International Human Rights: Visions Seen by Paul Gordon Lauren, University of Pennsylvania Press, 385 pp., $29.95 (paper); The Universal Declaration of Human Rights: Fifty Years and Beyond edited by Yael Danieli and Elsa Stamatopoulou and Clarence J. Dias, foreword by Kofi Annan, epilogue by Mary Robinson, Baywood, 465 pp., $45.00; NGOs and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: A Curious Grapevine by William Korey, St. Martin's, 638 pp., $39.95; The East Asian Challenge for Human Rights edited by Joanne R. Bauer and Daniel A. Bell, Cambridge University Press, 394 pp., $21.95 (paper);
Religion and Human Rights: Competing Claims? edited by Carrie Gustafson and Peter Juviler, M.E. Sharpe, 209 pp., $23.95 (paper); In the Lion's Den: A Shocking Account of Persecution and Martyrdom of Christians Today and How We Should Respond by Nina Shea, foreword by Chuck Colson, afterword by Ravi Zacharius, Broadman and Holman, 126 pp., $9.99 (paper);
United States of America: Rights for All by Amnesty International USA, Amnesty International USA, 153 pp., $12.95; The Universal Declaration of Human Rights: Origins, Drafting and Intent by Johannes Morsink, University of Pennsylvania Press, 378 pp., $49.95; Between Vengeance and Forgiveness: Facing History After Genocide and Mass Violence by Martha Minow, Beacon, 214 pp., $23.00; War Crimes: Brutality, Genocide, Terror, and the Struggle for Justice by Aryeh Neier, Times Books, 286 pp., $25.00