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Human Rights Treaties: A Suggested Typology, An Historical Perspective, John King Gamble, Teresa A. Bailey, Jared S. Hawk, Erin E. Mccurdy Sep 2001

Human Rights Treaties: A Suggested Typology, An Historical Perspective, John King Gamble, Teresa A. Bailey, Jared S. Hawk, Erin E. Mccurdy

Buffalo Human Rights Law Review

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To Labor In The Dancing World: Human Rights At Work, Erin E. Bahn Sep 2001

To Labor In The Dancing World: Human Rights At Work, Erin E. Bahn

Buffalo Human Rights Law Review

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Expanding International And National Protections Against Trafficking For Forced Labor Using A Human Rights Framework, Shelley Case Inglis Sep 2001

Expanding International And National Protections Against Trafficking For Forced Labor Using A Human Rights Framework, Shelley Case Inglis

Buffalo Human Rights Law Review

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Russian Jewry: The History Of Survival, Polina Tomashevsky Sep 2001

Russian Jewry: The History Of Survival, Polina Tomashevsky

Buffalo Human Rights Law Review

No abstract provided.


The Rwanda Tribunal: A Critical Assessment, Makau Wa Mutua Apr 2001

The Rwanda Tribunal: A Critical Assessment, Makau Wa Mutua

Other Scholarship

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J. Shand Watson's Theory And Reality In The International Protection Of Human Rights, Makau Wa Mutua Jan 2001

J. Shand Watson's Theory And Reality In The International Protection Of Human Rights, Makau Wa Mutua

Book Reviews

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Savages, Victims, And Saviors: The Metaphor Of Human Rights, Makau Wa Mutua Jan 2001

Savages, Victims, And Saviors: The Metaphor Of Human Rights, Makau Wa Mutua

Journal Articles

This article critically looks at the human rights project as a damning three-dimensional metaphor that exposes multiple complexes. It argues that the grand narrative of human rights contains a subtext which depicts an epochal contest pitting savages, on the one hand, against victims and saviors, on the other. The savages-victims-saviors (SVS) construction lays bare some of the hypocrisies of the human rights project and asks human rights thinkers and advocates to become more self-reflective. The piece questions the universality and cultural neutrality of the human rights project. It calls for the construction of a truly universal human rights corpus, one …


Human Rights International Ngos: A Critical Evaluation, Makau Wa Mutua Jan 2001

Human Rights International Ngos: A Critical Evaluation, Makau Wa Mutua

Contributions to Books

Published as Chapter 7 in NGOs and Human Rights: Promise and Performance, Claude E. Welch, Jr., ed.

The Human rights movement can be seen in a variety of guises. It can be seen as a movement for international justice or as a cultural project for “civilizing savage” cultures. In this chapter, I discuss a part of that movement as a crusade for a political project. International nongovernmental human rights organizations (INGOs), the small and elite collection of human rights groups based in the most powerful cultural and political capitals of the West, have arguably been the most influential component of …