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Loosening The Bounds Of Human Rights: Global Justice And The Theory Of Justice, Christina Jones-Pauly
Loosening The Bounds Of Human Rights: Global Justice And The Theory Of Justice, Christina Jones-Pauly
Human Rights & Human Welfare
A review of:
Bounds of Justice by Onora O’Neill. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000. 219pp.
Shaping Asylum: The Power Of Language, Teresa Tellechea
Shaping Asylum: The Power Of Language, Teresa Tellechea
Human Rights & Human Welfare
A review of Arguing about Asylum: The Complexity of Refugee Debates in Europe by Niklaus Steiner. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2000. 186pp.
It is June 1992. War has broken out in the Balkans. When we leave Madrid by car for the frontlines in Mostar, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bosnians and Croats are defending themselves against Serbians. Our license plates begin with SA, the abbreviation for Salamanca, Spain, which is taken to mean Sarajevo, which is currently under siege. On the road to Mostar we are greeted as heroes having been able to escape from SArajevo, though we are two free-lance photographers from …
Universal Human Rights And Cultural Diversity, Hilde Hey
Universal Human Rights And Cultural Diversity, Hilde Hey
Human Rights & Human Welfare
A review of Human Rights: New Perspectives, New Realities, edited by Adamantia Pollis and Peter Schwab. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 2000. 259pp.
The debate as to whether human rights should be considered universal or culturally relative has come a long way. In 1947, when the Commission on Human Rights considered proposals for formulating a declaration on basic human rights, the American Anthropological Association submitted a statement expressing concern about the universality of the proposed declaration. The association’s main argument was that ideas about rights and wrongs and good and evil that exist in one society are incompatible with the ideas …
Human Rights From Paper To Practice: How Far Have We Come?, Gerald Robert Pace
Human Rights From Paper To Practice: How Far Have We Come?, Gerald Robert Pace
Human Rights & Human Welfare
A review of The Power of Human Rights: International Norms and Domestic Change, edited by Thomas Risse, Steve C. Ropp, and Kathryn Sikkink. New York: Cambridge University Press (Cambridge Studies in International Relations, 66) 1999. 308pp.
The adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) is now some fifty years behind us. Perhaps now is the time to focus less on which aspects of the political and private realms should fall under the domain of human rights, and more on the effect of the human rights discourse on the harmonization of state behavior. We presently live in a world …