Human Rights Quarterly articles from February 1993

Human Rights Quarterly archives from February 1993

Labor rights provisions in US trade law: "aggressive unilateralism"?
February 1, 1993... Legislatively-mandated measures designed to protect the labor rights of workers in foreign countries constitute an increasingly important dimension of US human rights policy. Perhaps because those measures have been enacted under the rubric of...

Domestic violence as a human rights issue.
February 1, 1993... Maria was brutally assaulted in her own kitchen in England by a man wielding two knives. He held one of the weapons at her throat, while raping her with the other. After he finished, the man doused her with alcohol and set her alight with a...

The gender of jus cogens.
February 1, 1993... The modern international law doctrine of jus cogens asserts the existence of fundamental legal norms from which no derogation is permitted.(1) It imports notions of universally applicable norms into the international legal process. The status...

How human rights generate duties to protect and provide.
February 1, 1993... A common frustration with human rights instruments such as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights is that they do not clearly define who is obligated to ensure the enforcement and implementation of the rights they declare. This vagueness...

Measuring human rights: problems of methodology and purpose.
February 1, 1993... Although scholars and advocacy groups have published rankings of states' human rights conditions since the 1970s, they attracted little official attention until 1991, when both the World Bank and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)...

Human Rights Treaties and the Senate: A History of Opposition.
February 1, 1993... "In my view, ratification is long overdue, but better late than never."(1) In assessing the United States Senate's decision on 2 April 1992 to give its consent to ratify the international Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), Senator...

The United States and the Genocide Convention.
February 1, 1993... "In my view, ratification is long overdue, but better late than never."(1) In assessing the United States Senate's decision on 2 April 1992 to give its consent to ratify the international Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), Senator...