Human Rights Quarterly articles from August 1995

Human Rights Quarterly archives from August 1995

Limited mandates and intertwined problems: a new challenge for the World Bank and the IMF. (International Monetary Fund)
August 1, 1995... I. INTRODUCTION The sovereign states that participated in the establishment of the post-Second World War international order had a specific vision of how international organizations should function. This view was based on two premises. The...

Labor standards in the globalized economy: the inclusion of a social clause in the General Agreement on Tariff and Trade/World Trade Organization.
August 1, 1995... I. INTRODUCTION This article was prompted by a collection of essays published by the International Institute for Labour Studies (IILS) at the International Labour Office (ILO) in Geneva in October 1994.(1) The publication, International Labour...

The human right to die with dignity: a policy-oriented essay.
August 1, 1995... Death with dignity, either alone or with others, is certainly preferable to death without dignity, whether it be lingering or rather sudden. When one can choose the time of one's death or knows of its impending inevitability, dignity seems all...

A critique of social approaches to human rights.
August 1, 1995... I. INTRODUCTION Concepts and ideas of natural and human rights can be seen as playing a highly ambivalent socio-historical role in terms of challenging or sustaining particular forms of power. In an earlier paper, I examined liberal and...

Human rights: a feminist perspective.
August 1, 1995... This paper explores the ways in which human rights might be understood if women's experience were the foundation for the theorizing and enforcement. The argument is not that there is but one feminist perspective--indeed the title suggests that...

Buddhism, human rights and the Japanese state.
August 1, 1995... I. INTRODUCTION In 1947, under unrelenting pressure from the US lead occupation forces, the government of Japan approved a new constitution.(1) At the heart of this new constitution were a transfer of sovereignty from the Emperor to the people...

Reparations in Aloeboetoe v. Suriname. (case before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights in 1993 for the government's wrongful killing of seven men)
August 1, 1995... I. INTRODUCTION On 10 September 1993 the Inter-American Court of Human Rights handed down its judgment on reparations in the matter of Aloeboetoe et al. v. Suriname.(2) The events from which this wrongful death action arose occurred on 31...

Human rights and the transition to democracy under the PNDC in Ghana. (Provisional National Defence Council)
August 1, 1995... This work considers human rights issues under the Provisional National Defence Council (PNDC) and their effects on the transition to democracy that culminated in the controversial 1992 elections in Ghana, Africa. To some, human rights violations...

Human Rights and Governance in Africa.
August 1, 1995... This collection of eleven essays, arising from a 1988-1989 Carter Lecture Series at the Center for African Studies of the University of Florida, is organized into two parts. Part I, entitled "Theoretical Perspectives," contains essays by Ronald...

Human Rights of Women: National and International Perspectives.
August 1, 1995... As preparations proceed for the 1995 World Conference on Women, feminist human rights scholars and activists face a historical moment of great opportunity and serious challenge. Two recently published collections of papers on "women's rights as...

Reconceiving Reality: Women and International Law.
August 1, 1995... As preparations proceed for the 1995 World Conference on Women, feminist human rights scholars and activists face a historical moment of great opportunity and serious challenge. Two recently published collections of papers on "women's rights as...