Human Rights Quarterly articles from August 1994

Human Rights Quarterly archives from August 1994

The human rights movement in the Arab world.
August 1, 1994... INTRODUCTION In 1983, a group of Arab intellectuals formed an organization protesting the erosion of civil and political rights in the Arab states. "The last thirty years," they wrote, "have witnessed the complete disappearance of...

Religious rights in China: a comparison of international human rights law and Chinese domestic legislation.
August 1, 1994... I. INTRODUCTION Analyses of human rights in the Peoples Republic of China (PRC) tend to focus upon the specific abuses which the Chinese Government visits upon its citizens. For example, governments and non-governmental organizations...

The philosophical foundations of human rights.
August 1, 1994... 1. THE PROBLEM OF PHILOSOPHICAL FOUNDATIONS The concept of human rights raises problems that are, on the one hand, practical and urgent, and, on the other hand, theoretical and abstract. For human rights proponents and academics whose...

The reporting obligation under Article 40 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights: lessons to be learned from consideration by the Human Rights Committee of Ireland's first report.
August 1, 1994... During its summer session in 1993, the United Nations Human Rights Committee ("the Committee") considered Ireland's initial report ("the Report") pursuant to Article 40 of the international Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR).(2) The...

Human rights and US foreign aid revisited: the Latin American region.
August 1, 1994... INTRODUCTION In a 1990 Human Rights Quarterly article, one of this study's co-authors examined several quantitative research efforts that had investigated the impact of human rights concerns on US foreign aid allocation. He concluded...

Women, law, and land at the local level: claiming women's human rights in domestic legal systems.
August 1, 1994... I. INTRODUCTION: IN TERMS OF WOMEN, THE WHOLE WORLD IS DEVELOPING Women's human rights begin at home. They were not invented at Geneva or Banjul or Strasbourg or Vienna or San Jose, where international bodies meet and lobby and...

The International Commission of Jurists: Global Advocates for Human Rights.
August 1, 1994... Case studies remind us that when we are talking about human rights, we are not talking about legal abstractions, and we are not tilting at windmills of idealism. We are talking about people: victims and violators, advocates and activists. As...

The Abolition of the Death Penalty in International Law.
August 1, 1994... In 1929, the International Convention Relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War was drafted and adopted in Geneva. Its provisions imposing limits on the sentence of death for prisoners of war constitute, according to William A. Schabas,...

Minorities at Risk: A Global View of Ethnopolitical Conflicts.
August 1, 1994... The dynamics of post-Cold War politics have added yet another new twist to the long-standing ethnically based conflicts around the world. The implications of these conflicts for both domestic and international politics are particularly critical...

Inter-State Accountability for Violations of Human Rights.
August 1, 1994... In his dissertation at the University of Leiden Menno T. Kamminga dealt with one of the most difficult and controversial question of human rights law: the antagonistic relationship between the international protection of human rights and the...

No Place to Be a Child: Growing up in a War Zone.
August 1, 1994... No Place to Be a Child. Growing Up in a War Zone discusses the effects of war on children who actually live in war zones. The book covers in depth the living situations of children in Cambodia, Mozambique, Nicaragua, Palestine or the Occupied...