Scholastic Update articles from December 1993

Scholastic Update archives from December 1993

Waking up the world. (international human rights abuses)(includes related article) (Cover Story)
December 3, 1993... A couple and their three children lying hound together, dead in a ditch beside their home. A village bombed and razed, its residents uprooted and turned into refugees. A political assassination in broad daylight on a city street. A firebombing...

Hot spots. (countries where human rights are violated)
December 3, 1993... Amnesty International identifies more than 100 nations where human rights abuses take place. In this issue, we focus on only a handful The maps here show where some of these countries are, and offer some background. GUATEMALA For...

Extraordinary people. (human rights workers Rigoberta Menchu, Dalai Lama and Aung San Suu Kyi)
December 3, 1993... When the Dalai Lama, the religious and political leader of Tibet, emerged from his hotel room for an interview with UPDATE, he introduced himself, then suddenly stopped short, and burst into a deep, resonant laugh. "One moment, please," he...

The rights debate. (United States involvement with countries that abuse human rights) (includes related article)
December 3, 1993... As a candidate for President, Bill Clinton pledged that, if elected, he would make human rights a central part of his Presidency. Clinton sharply criticized the past American practice of supporting countries that were human rights abusers but...

A message to youth. (questions and answers on human rights)
December 3, 1993... Jimmy Carter, the 39th President of the United States (1977-81), is one of the world's leading advocates for human rights. He now heads the Carter Center in Atlanta, Georgia,which he founded with his wife, Rosalyn, to foster peace, democracy,...

The trail of rights. (human rights treaties in history)
December 3, 1993... In 1946, the United Nations established a commission to draft an international "bill of rights" to serve as a standard for all nations. Led by former First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, the commission studied both modern and historical ideas of human...

Shine a light. (brutal torture of Kashmiri college student)(includes related article)
December 3, 1993... Among all the species on earth, none is more inhumane than the human being. Other animals may be savage, even cruel, but only humans use torture - the deliberate, calculated infliction of pain on other living beings. Often, the use of torture...

Power of the pen. (high school students write letters for human rights)
December 3, 1993... Early one morning in Addis Ababa, in the African nation of Ethiopia, Mulugetta Mosissa was startled from sleep by a loud knocking. When the 29-year-old husband and father-to-be opened his door, he was confronted by six men wielding automatic...

Write here, right now. (school students can write letters against human rights abuses)
December 3, 1993... On February 23, 1993, 26-year-old Chris Batan was on his way to investigate human rights violations in Betwagan, a town in the Philippines. As a member of Cordillera People's Alliance, a local human rights group, he had been actively working to...