Human Rights Quarterly articles from August 1992

Human Rights Quarterly archives from August 1992

The Restrepo case: murky waters. (the January, 1988 killing of Santiago and Andres Restrepo by the Ecuadorian National Police)
August 1, 1992... Two boys vanished in January 1988. Their disappearance in Quito, Ecuador became notorious not only in their own country but also in neighboring Colombia and beyond. The resolution of the case dealt a serious blow to the Ecuadorian National...

Race and war crimes: the 1945 war crimes trial of General Tomoyuki Yamashita.
August 1, 1992... I. INTRODUCTION 304 II. BACKGROUND 306 A. The Yellow Peril and the Second World War 306 B. Yamashita: "The Tiger of Malaya" 307 ...

How to advance human rights without really trying: an analysis of nongovernmental tribunals.
August 1, 1992... The greatest historical, philosophical, and psychological work of our time will be written by the commission of inquiry. Statements such as Trotsky's have been frequent at the scores of nongovernmental tribunals held in the twentieth...

Protecting labor rights in market economies.
August 1, 1992... I. INTRODUCTION A definition of "market economies with a human face" might begin with the normative ethical view that both the benefits and pain of economic progress should be equitably shared among social and economic classes, racial...

Development, human rights and law.
August 1, 1992... 1. INTRODUCTION This paper explores the foundations of positive law within the context of human rights and development.(1) Positivist theories of rights and law have filled much of the vacuum left by the rejection of divine law and...

The bases of minority identity.
August 1, 1992... I. INTRODUCTION Although concerted interstate efforts to protect minorities began with the 1648 Peace of Westphalia, the dilemma of defining minority identity has existed throughout history.(1) Before the twentieth century, protective...

Peace on Earth and goodwill to men. (world government)
August 1, 1992... One solution to the present world crisis, which would however require radical changes in world politics and law, might be world government. There is little likelihood of this coming about in any foreseeable future. It will be useful, however,...