Human Rights Quarterly articles from February 1992

Human Rights Quarterly archives from February 1992

Human rights as a holistic concept.
February 1, 1992... I. INTRODUCTION The universality of human rights is assumed, notwithstanding all of the violations documented by human rights organizations. We need only look to the declarations of the United Nations and other international...

The 1991 battle for human rights in China. (most-favored-nation status)
February 1, 1992... In the two-and-a-half years since the Tiananmen Massacre, the extension of Most-Favored-Nation (MFN) trade status to China has become the focal issue in Sino-US relations.(1) Prior to June 1989 the yearly renewal of China's MFN status occurred...

The African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights: a five-year report and assessment.
February 1, 1992... The Organization of African States (OAU) was conceived and born in 1963 in a context of nearly untrammeled state sovereignty, in which heads of states sought sedulously to safeguard the independence so recently won. Only passing mention was...

Human rights and foreign policy: what the Kurds learned (a drama in one act). (satire)
February 1, 1992... [It is a late afternoon in January 1992. Seated in a White House conference room are a small assortment of senior officials from the State, Treasury, and Defense Departments and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), together with several...

Human rights and development.
February 1, 1992... I. INTRODUCTION The concepts of human rights and development are expanding and converging. This paper explores these concepts, presents a way of looking at them which furthers their expansion and integration, and discusses some of the...

Relativity of the minority concept.
February 1, 1992... I. INTRODUCTION Minority issues continue to be a subject of controversy, more so with the recent political changes in Eastern Europe that have rekindled minority aspirations. Efforts to define minorities continue in the United Nations...

Democratization and development.
February 1, 1992... The rapid pace of regime changes in many parts of the world over the past decade coincides with a global economic crisis and greater North-South polarization in economic relations. This raises two urgent and related policy questions for...

The generation of disenchantment. (Chile)
February 1, 1992... In Chile, my generation was called the generation of disenchantment. Those of us born between 1950 and 1955 found ourselves involved in the eternal ceremonies of fear and violence. We were the children of war. It was common among the...

Universal Human Rights in Theory and Practice.
February 1, 1992... Introducing the subject of human rights in a systematic way to relative beginners--surveying the conceptual, normative, and empirical issues in an accessible, up-to-date, and comprehensive manner--is not easy. Neither monographs, anthologies,...

The Law of Refugee Status.
February 1, 1992... James Hathaway has written a very thorough, cogent, and intelligent book on the UN Convention on Refugees' definition of what constitutes a refugee. Hathaway, a professor of law at Osgoode Hall School of Law at York University in Toronto,...