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From Nuremberg To The Rwanda Tribunal: Justice Or Retribution?, Makau Mutua Jan 2000

From Nuremberg To The Rwanda Tribunal: Justice Or Retribution?, Makau Mutua

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Civil Rights And Human Rights: A Call For Closer Collaboration, Douglass Cassel Jan 2000

Civil Rights And Human Rights: A Call For Closer Collaboration, Douglass Cassel

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Those of you who may be familiar with my commentaries know that my usual topics are mass murderers overseas or U.S. foreign policy toward them. Today, however, I would like to focus on something closer to home-the history of and prospects for fruitful collaboration between the civil rights movement and the international human rights movement. My purpose is to encourage dialogue between civil rights and human rights lawyers. As a sometime civil rights lawyer myself, I am convinced that such a dialogue could be productive.

We might start by distinguishing human rights from civil rights. In customary American usage, the …


Five Years After Beijing: A Report Card On Women’S Human Rights, Athena D. Mutua Jan 2000

Five Years After Beijing: A Report Card On Women’S Human Rights, Athena D. Mutua

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Nuclear Weapons, Lethal Injection, And American Catholics: Faith Confronting American Civil Religion, Thomas L. Shaffer Jan 2000

Nuclear Weapons, Lethal Injection, And American Catholics: Faith Confronting American Civil Religion, Thomas L. Shaffer

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But, still, honor is important among us. "He was an honorable man" is still a moving thing to say, at a (man's) funeral. The notion, and the liturgy that invokes the notion, show us believers that civil religion has a hold on us, and that we need a place where we can sit down together and think things out.2 6 This argument of mine needs to get beneath simple contrasts between biblical faith and civil religion. We believers need to reason together, plopped down as we are in the middle of the present. We believers include naval officers and lawyers …