Human Rights Quarterly articles from May 1995

Human Rights Quarterly archives from May 1995

Refugee women and the imperative of categories.
May 1, 1995... INTRODUCTION The de facto uniting criterion [among refugees] was the shared marginalization of the groups in their states of origin, with consequent inability to vindicate their basic human rights at home. These early refugees were not merely...

Between regimes and realism - transnational agenda setting: Soviet compliance with CSCE human rights norms. (Conference on Security and Cooperation)
May 1, 1995... INTRODUCTION One of the central debates in international relations theory is between realists who characterize the world as anarchistic and regime theorists who argue that regimes, or "institutions with explicit rules, agreed upon by...

Blackfellas and whitefellas: aboriginal land rights, the Mabo decision, and the meaning of land. (Australia)
May 1, 1995... I. INTRODUCTION This paper examines the most controversial political situation in Australia today, the provision of land rights to Aboriginal people as a result of Mabo v. Queensland. In order to frame this issue, the history of land rights...

A coherent approach to human rights.
May 1, 1995... 1. INTRODUCTION Human rights call upon States to protect vulnerable individuals and groups against oppression. Oppression involves the extreme misuse of State power arid includes the commingling of the State machinery with oppressive interest...

Indigenous "sovereignty" and international law: revised strategies for pursuing "self-determination."
May 1, 1995... I. INTRODUCTION The indigenous community greeted the United Nations' decision to officially proclaim 1993 as the International Year of the World's indigenous Peoples' rather warily. A mere twelve years had passed since the United Nations had...

A cross-cultural perspective on reproductive rights.
May 1, 1995... In recent months, a number of international conferences focusing on human rights and population have added a certain urgency to the search for definitions of reproductive rights that would be acceptable cross-culturally. in the last three...

Equity decisions: economic development and environmental prudence.
May 1, 1995... Environmental danger, ironically, has engendered new concern and interest on the part of many countries and people towards the environment, and towards one another. This paper will suggest that a common sense ethic of equity demands that those...

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights: A Commentary.
May 1, 1995... This volume is a collection of thirty-one essays by almost as many different authors, roughly one for each of the thirty-one articles of the Declaration. All the contributors are from Scandinavia and all are involved in human rights work in their...

Christianity and Economics in the Post-Cold War Era: The Oxford Declaration and Beyond.
May 1, 1995... November 1989 will be remembered as the month in which the Berlin Wall fell to the ground and the Cold War reached its forty-five year denouement. Those of long historical memory will also recall a night that month which witnessed the brutal...

Writings for a Liberation Psychology.
May 1, 1995... November 1989 will be remembered as the month in which the Berlin Wall fell to the ground and the Cold War reached its forty-five year denouement. Those of long historical memory will also recall a night that month which witnessed the brutal...

Diccionario Juridico Segun la Jurisprudencia del Tribunal Supremo de Puerto Rico.
May 1, 1995... A welcome addition to the libraries of those who work in the area of Hispanic-American law will be Mariano Morales' two volume legal dictionary on the terminology and doctrines of the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico. More an encyclopedia than a mere...