Human Rights Quarterly articles from May 1993

Human Rights Quarterly archives from May 1993

Women's international human rights law: the way forward.
May 1, 1993... TABLE OF CONTENTS I. Introduction 231 II. Progress, Challenges, and Prospects 232 A. Why Rights? 232 B. Whose...

Punishing war crimes in the former Yugoslavia: a critical juncture for the New World Order.
May 1, 1993... TABLE OF CONTENTS I. INTRODUCTION 264 II. REVIEW OF RECENT DEVELOPMENTS 265 A. The First "Special Session" of the UN Commission on Human Rights...

Human rights, humanitarian intervention, and world politics.
May 1, 1993... International law, and the world politics that creates and sustains it, has increasingly manifested a tension between the primacy of state sovereignty and other values that would challenge that primacy.(1) One of those challenging values is...

Cultural absolutism and the nostalgia for community. (international human rights)
May 1, 1993... 1. CULTURAL RELATIVISM AS CULTURAL ABSOLUTISM In recent years the liberal approach to human rights has undergone a twofold assault, from both the right and the left. From the right, liberal human rights are attacked by a new version of...

Eastern orthodoxy and human rights.
May 1, 1993... I. INTRODUCTION The brutality of the holocaust in Europe during World War II precipitated international concern with human rights. Today all countries at least rhetorically attest to their adherence to the international standards of...

World War Two and the Universal Declaration. (1948 UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights)
May 1, 1993... The Third General Assembly of the United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in December of 1948, three years after the end of the Second World War. In their final comments, the delegates to that Assembly made it...

Democracy for a ghost nation. (political landscape of Chile)
May 1, 1993... During sixteen monstrous years of dictatorship (1973-1988), I would travel to my native Chile. I longed to see the faces of the people, to take in the aroma of peaches and summer, to behold from the heights and the distance the implacable...

The forty-fourth session of the UN Sub-Commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities and the special session of the Commission on Human Rights on the situation in the former Yugoslavia.
May 1, 1993... I. INTRODUCTION The twenty-six members of the Sub-Commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities (hereinafter Sub-commission) convened for the Sub-Commission's forty-fourth session during 3-28 August 1992 in...

Human Rights in Africa: Cross-Cultural Perspectives.
May 1, 1993... "Why is the African human rights record so bad?," asks one of the authors of this analytical collection of thirteen essays by academics (some of them African), human rights specialists, and experts on Africa. The explanation given most...