Genesis: NGOs and the UN charter -- The "Curious grapevine": NGO rights and limitations -- Silencing the NGOs at the UN -- "Honored guests": the anti-slavery society -- An NGO "prototype"" the anti-slavery society -- An NGO shifts its focus: the "Pioneer" international league for human rights -- "To light a candle": congress, the struggle for genocide treaty ratification -- "Heroic reformers": NGOs and the helsinki process -- "The Fuel and the lubricant": NGOs and the revolution in UN human rights implementation machinery -- "Race, defining moment": Vienna, 1993 -- Genocide and accountability: response of the NGO community -- Overcoming the crisis of growth: human rights watch spans the globe -- The "Diplomatic approach" vs the "human rights approach": the high commissioner of human rights, and the blaustein institute -- "Uncharted terrain": minority rights, ethic tensions and conflict prevention -- The "Unexplored continent" of physician involvement in human rihgts -- Mrs. Roosevelt's NGO takes on new dimensions: freedom house's changing priorities -- "ASIAN values" vs. the universal declaration of human rihgts -- Lobbying for the rule of law -- Recapturing the spirit of nuremberg

1. United Nations. General Assembly. Universal Declaration of Human Rights
2. Human rights
3. Non-governmental organizations