Human Rights Quarterly articles from May 1992

Human Rights Quarterly archives from May 1992

The challenge of lobbying for civil rights in Northern Ireland: the Committee on the Administration of Justice.
May 1, 1992... l. INTRODUCTION The emergence of national nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) is an important and largely unexamined development within the international human rights movement. With international human rights organizations stretched...

The evolution of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights: reflections of present and former judges. (Interview)
May 1, 1992... The history of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights dates back to 1969, (1) when a subcommittee of the Organization of American States (OAS) drafted the American Convention of Human Rights.(2) The Convention expanded the role of the...

Soviet socialized medicine and the right to health care in a changing Soviet Union.
May 1, 1992... I. A HEALTH CARE CRISIS The perception of health care as a basic human right is a relatively recent development, and the concept of the state providing free comprehensive health care to all its citizens is new to this century. In...

The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child: developing an information model to computerize the monitoring of treaty compliance.
May 1, 1992... I. INTRODUCTION The Convention on the Rights of the Child, adopted by the UN General Assembly on 20 November 1989,(1) has inspired an overwhelmingly positive response from the entire world community. On 2 September 1990, a little more...

The forty-third session of the UN Sub-Commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities: the Sub-Commission under scrutiny.
May 1, 1992... I. INTRODUCTION 233 II. COUNTRY SITUATIONS 235 A. Baltics 236 B. Cambodia ...

World Justice? U.S. Courts and International Human Rights.
May 1, 1992... The half-century following World War II has spawned numerous questions about international human rights. For example, what rights, if any, do all people possess? If such universal rights exist, by whom, and against whom, can they be enforced?...

Perestroika: An Inquiry into Its Historical, Ideological and Intellectual Roots.
May 1, 1992... Perestroika, the restructuring of the Soviet Union under Mikhail Gorbachev, opened up the country to more freedom than at any time since the fall of the Provisional Government during the Bolshevik coup of 7 November 1917. But has it meant the...

Development Aid and Human Rights.
May 1, 1992... Development Aid and Human Rights, a study for the Danish Center of Human Rights by Katarina Taomasevski, is a very important publication about human rights and development aid. According to the author the purpose of the book is to argue that...