After finishing this chapter, you should be able to:

• Articulate the scope of human rights on an international scale.
• Identify some of the major human rights instruments, like the UDHR, ICCPR, and ICESCR.
• Understand some of the strengths and weaknesses of the international human rights treaty system.
• Locate the main regional human rights system, and understand some of the trade-offs of a regional approach compared with an international one.
• Identify the ways in which nonstate actors play a crucial role in human rights promotion.
• Present different arguments for whether and how human rights have power on a global scale.
• Analyze how global forces shape the human rights field.