Preface -- Introduction -- 1 The Human Rights Story -- 2 The Post-war World -- 3 The Rights of Humankind -- 4 Twenty-first Century Blues -- 5 War Law -- 6 An End to Impunity? -- 7 Slouching Towards Nemesis -- 8 The Balkan Trials -- 9 The International Criminal Court -- 10 The Case of General Pinochet -- 11 The Guernica Paradox: Bombing for Humanity -- App. A Human Rights in History -- App. B Universal Declaration of Human Rights -- App. C Ratifications of UN Human Rights Conventions