Human Rights Quarterly articles from February 1995

Human Rights Quarterly archives from February 1995

Conceptual problems in the protection of minorities: international legal developments.
February 1, 1995... I. INTRODUCTION Not since the close of the First World War has the issue of minority rights achieved the central place in international relations and their legal regulation that it currently occupies. The volatility of central European...

The South African Constitution of 1993 and the Bill of Rights: an evaluation in light of international human rights norms.
February 1, 1995... I. INTRODUCTION An interim Constitution for South Africa, providing for an elected Constituent Assembly(1) that will be charged with drafting a final constitution within two years,(2) was approved by South Africa's last racially defined...

Social economic rights and human rights commissions.
February 1, 1995... I. INTRODUCTION There is widespread acceptance now of the ideas of interdependence and indivisibility. While the debate may not yet be over, a consensus is clearly emerging on this point. By accepting that all human rights are interdependent...

The Mohonk Criteria for humanitarian assistance in complex emergencies. (Task Force on Ethical and Legal Issues in Humanitarian Assistance)
February 1, 1995... Introduction The end of the cold war brought with it humanitarian disasters of increased complexity. To a degree never before experienced, humanitarian aid organizations were confronted with contexts so violent that many chose to hire armed...

China and the international human rights regime: a case study of multilateral monitoring, 1989-1994.
February 1, 1995... I. INTRODUCTION The decision by President Clinton on 26 May 1994 to sever Most-Favored Nation trading status [hereinafter MFN] from human rights in US relations with China marks the end of a four year period in which MFN assumed the principal...

How the international system copes with involuntary migration: norms, institutions and state practice.
February 1, 1995... THE EVOLUTION OF A NORMATIVE STRUCTURE Roots Were they but accessible, Philistines and Hebrews of Biblical times could attest that mass migration is nothing new, either as a phenomenon or a problem: sometimes for the migrants, sometimes for...

Women's voices, women's pain. (Japanese treatment of comfort women)
February 1, 1995... I. INTRODUCTION The feminist movement has brought to the forefront the necessity of listening to women's voices and appreciating the distinctive insights of women. For centuries societies dominated by males have failed to document the...

More murder in the middle: life-integrity violations and democracy in the world, 1987.
February 1, 1995... I. INTRODUCTION Current US foreign policy goals put great stress on extending democracy, and US legislation--never systematically enforced--has banned aid to gross violators of human rights for two decades, making exceptions for aid which...

La Charte africaine des droits de l'homme et des peuples: Une approche juridique des droits de l'homme entre tradition et modernite.
February 1, 1995... Francophone readers will profit from this thorough legal analysis of the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights. The author, an Algerian specialist in the United Nations Legal Services Division, has carefully combed through all major...