Human Rights Quarterly articles from November 1992

Human Rights Quarterly archives from November 1992

The road to San Francisco: the revival of the human rights idea in the twentieth century.
November 1, 1992... TABLE OF CONTENTS I. Introduction 447 II. The League of Nations and the Minority Clauses 449 III. The Pioneer Role of Andre Mandelstam and the Involvement of Nongovernmental...

The Declaration of Independence, the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen, and the Bill of Rights.
November 1, 1992... In reviewing the literature of any discipline, including that of human rights law, it is all too easy to overlook canonical texts on the assumption that they are already too well-known. However, canonical texts can take on new significance when...

The U.N. Commission on Human Rights.
November 1, 1992... By Howard Tolley, Jr. (Boulder: Westview Press, 1987), 300 pp. This text was the first comprehensive study of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights (hereinafter CHR) to be published in English,(1) and it continues to serve as a...

Human Rights, the United States, and World Community.
November 1, 1992... By Vernon Van Dyke (New York: Oxford University Press, 1970), 292 pp.; $6.95 (out of print). Vernon Van Dyke's Human Rights, The United States, and World Community (1970) is the earliest book published on internationally recognized human...

International Human Rights.
November 1, 1992... By Frank Newman and David Weissbrodt (Cincinnati: Anderson Publishing Co., 1990), 812 pp.; $12.00. Newman and Weissbrodt have written a provocative coursebook for teaching about human rights. It has only one glaring omission: inadequate...

The International Dimensions of Human Rights, 2 vols.
November 1, 1992... Edited by Karel Vasak and Philip Alston, 2 vols. (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1982), 755 pp. Those who wish to explore the field of human rights would do well to peruse the excellent collection of Karel Vasak and Philip Alston, eds.,...

Human Rights in Cross-Cultural Perspectives: A Quest for Consensus.
November 1, 1992... Edited by Abdullahi An-Na'im (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1992), 448 pp.; $32.95. Few scholarly topics more readily engender controversies than the question of the universality of international human rights norms. On the...

Human Rights and Statistics: Getting the Record Straight.
November 1, 1992... Edited by Thomas B. Jabine and Richard P. Claude (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1992), 458 pp.; $39.95. Upon a first glance at the Table of Contents, the contributions to this volume, edited by Jabine and Claude, appear to...

The Realm of Rights.
November 1, 1992... By Judith Jarvis Thomson (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1990), 383 pp.; $37.50 ($16.95). Students of human rights have a surprisingly underdeveloped interest in conceptual issues in the theory of their subject. One must hasten to...

Report of the Commission of Inquiry Appointed Under Article 26 of the Constitution of the International Labour Organisation to Examine the Observance of the Discrimination (Employment and Occupation) Convention, 1958 (No. 111), by the Federal Republic of Germany.
November 1, 1992... By The Federal Republic of Germany, International Labour Office Official Bulletin, Vol. LXX, 1987, Series B, Supplement 1, 1-265. The title of this publication, with its stilted formalism, does not reveal what is in fact a thorough...

Inter-State Accountability for Violations of Human Rights.
November 1, 1992... By Menno T. Kamminga (Forthcoming in the Pennsylvania Studies on Human Rights Series, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1992.) On 31 May 1990, Menno T. Kamminga received the doctor's degree at the University of Leyden (Netherlands) after...

The International Fight Against Torture.
November 1, 1992... Antonio Cassese, ed., (Baden-Baden: Nomos, 1991) 186 pp. The last two decades have witnessed an increasing desire to tackle the widespread diseases of torture and inhuman and degrading treatment. Amnesty International's 1973 worldwide...

Information Freedom and Censorship: World Report, 1991.
November 1, 1992... By Article 19, Preface by William Shawcross (Chicago: American Library Association, 1991) 471 pp., $39.10. In 1948 all of the nations that then belonged to the United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Article 19 of...

A Miracle, a Universe: Settling Accounts with Torturers.
November 1, 1992... By Lawrence Weschler (New York: Pantheon Books 1990), 293 pp.; $22.45. GETTING AWAY WITH TORTURE Lawrence Weschler's stunning account of torture and its aftermath in Brazil and Uruguay, A Miracle, A Universe, is subtitled "Settling...

Behind the Disappearances: Argentina's Dirty War Against Human Rights and the United Nations.
November 1, 1992... By Iain Guest (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1990), 605 pp. $47.95 ($18.95 paper) On 13 August 1992, the UN Commission on Human Rights (UNCHR) began its first ever two-day Special Session, drafting a resolution on the...

Against All Hope: The Prison Memoirs of Armando Valladares.
November 1, 1992... Translated by Andrew Hurley (New York: Knopf, 1986), 387 pp.; $18.95. Man is Nature's most wonderful creature. Torturing him, crushing him, murdering him for his beliefs and ideas is more than a violation of human ...

Report of the Chilean National Commission on Truth and Reconciliation.
November 1, 1992... By the National Commission on Truth and Reconciliation (Rettig Commission) (Santiago: Secretariat of Communication and Culture, Government General Secretariat Ministry, 1991), 1350 pp. Chilean President Patricio Aylwin took office in March...

A review of Human Rights Watch publications: 1991. (introduction)
November 1, 1992... INTRODUCTION The Watch Committees' mandate is to monitor, report on, and promote the observance of human rights worldwide. The Committees are structured in one of two ways--regionally or thematically. Regionally, there are five...

Human Rights Watch: World Report, 1990.
November 1, 1992... In early 1991, Human Rights Watch published its annual World Report, which reviews human rights conditions worldwide. The report provides not only a compact and concise evaluation of the human rights conditions in the countries and areas Human...

The Killings in South Africa: The Role of the Security Forces and the Response of the State.
November 1, 1992... The Role of the Security Forces & The Response of the State (1991). Of the publications published by Africa Watch during 1991, Kenya, Taking Liberties is the most comprehensive. The report examines the many facets of the human rights...

Academic Freedom and Human Rights Abuses in Africa.
November 1, 1992... Of the publications published by Africa Watch during 1991, Kenya, Taking Liberties is the most comprehensive. The report examines the many facets of the human rights condition in Kenya and covers everything from the Kenyan media and...

Kenya: Taking Liberties.
November 1, 1992... Of the publications published by Africa Watch during 1991, Kenya, Taking Liberties is the most comprehensive. The report examines the many facets of the human rights condition in Kenya and covers everything from the Kenyan media and...

El Salvador's Decade of Terror: Human Rights Since the Assassination of Archbishop Romero.
November 1, 1992... El Salvador's Decade of Terror: Human Rights since the Assassination of Archbishop Romero is the result of many years of research and reporting conducted by the San Salvador off ice of Americas Watch. This book is perfect for anyone who wants...

El Salvador and Human Rights: The Challenge of Reform.
November 1, 1992... El Salvador's Decade of Terror: Human Rights since the Assassination of Archbishop Romero is the result of many years of research and reporting conducted by the San Salvador office of Americas Watch. This book is perfect for anyone who wants to...

Guatemala: Getting Away with Murder.
November 1, 1992... El Salvador's Decade of Terror: Human Rights since the Assassination of Archbishop Romero is the result of many years of research and reporting conducted by the San Salvador off ice of Americas Watch. This book is perfect for anyone who wants...

Half Measures: Reform, Forced Labor, and the Dominican Sugar Industry.
November 1, 1992... El Salvador's Decade of Terror: Human Rights since the Assassination of Archbishop Romero is the result of many years of research and reporting conducted by the San Salvador off ice of Americas Watch. This book is perfect for anyone who wants...

Into the Quagmire: Human Rights and U.S. Policy in Peru.
November 1, 1992... El Salvador's Decade of Terror: Human Rights since the Assassination of Archbishop Romero is the result of many years of research and reporting conducted by the San Salvador off ice of Americas Watch. This book is perfect for anyone who wants...

Human Rights and the "Politics of Agreement": Chile During President Aylwin's First Year.
November 1, 1992... El Salvador's Decade of Terror: Human Rights since the Assassination of Archbishop Romero is the result of many years of research and reporting conducted by the San Salvador off ice of Americas Watch. This book is perfect for anyone who wants...

Truth and Partial Justice in Argentina: An Update.
November 1, 1992... El Salvador's Decade of Terror: Human Rights since the Assassination of Archbishop Romero is the result of many years of research and reporting conducted by the San Salvador off ice of Americas Watch. This book is perfect for anyone who wants...

Rural Violence in Brazil.
November 1, 1992... El Salvador's Decade of Terror: Human Rights since the Assassination of Archbishop Romero is the result of many years of research and reporting conducted by the San Salvador off ice of Americas Watch. This book is perfect for anyone who wants...

Unceasing Abuses: Human Rights in Mexico One Year After the Introduction of Reform.
November 1, 1992... El Salvador's Decade of Terror: Human Rights since the Assassination of Archbishop Romero is the result of many years of research and reporting conducted by the San Salvador off ice of Americas Watch. This book is perfect for anyone who wants...

Afghanistan: The Forgotten War.
November 1, 1992... Of the three reports released by Asia Watch in 1991, two dealt with the human rights situations in India. Of these two, Punjab in Crisis is more detailed. The report recounts the conflict between separatist Sikh militants and government forces...

Human Rights in India: Kashmir Under Siege.
November 1, 1992... Of the three reports released by Asia Watch in 1991, two dealt with the human rights situations in India. Of these two, Punjab in Crisis is more detailed. The report recounts the conflict between separatist Sikh militants and government forces...

Punjab in Crisis: Human Rights in India.
November 1, 1992... Of the three reports released by Asia Watch in 1991, two dealt with the human rights situations in India. Of these two, Punjab in Crisis is more detailed. The report recounts the conflict between separatist Sikh militants and government forces...

Restricted Subjects: Freedom of Expression in the United Kingdom.
November 1, 1992... This report on the freedom of expression in the United Kingdom was written in conjunction with the two divisions of the Human Rights Watch. Some parts of the book are included, in a different format, in the 1991 Helsinki Watch report on Human...

Destroying Ethnic Identity: The Persecution of Gypsies in Romania.
November 1, 1992... Destroying Ethnic Identity: The Persecution of the Gypsies in Romania reports the history of the Gypsy population in Romania, the history of their persecution, and the hardships which they continue to endure. The research for the book was...

Glasnost in Jeopardy: Human Rights in the USSR.
November 1, 1992... The report Glasnost in Jeopardy: Human Rights in the USSR provides the reader with an overview of legal, social, and governmental institutions and ways they have contributed to or hindered the development of human rights in the Soviet Union. As...

Human Rights in Northern Ireland.
November 1, 1992... The Helsinki Watch Report Human Rights in Northern Ireland is a wonderful report for those who either need an introduction to issues surrounding the "Troubles" in Northern Ireland or who want a better understanding of the legal aspects of the...

Conflict in the Soviet Union: Black January in Azerbaidzhan.
November 1, 1992... The report Conflict in the Soviet Union: Black January in Azerbaidzhan was cosponsored by the Helsinki Watch Committee and the Inter-Republic Memorial Society, a Soviet human rights organization for which Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov served as...

Since the Revolution: Human Rights in Romania.
November 1, 1992... Another book published by the Helsinki Watch, Since the Revolution: Human Rights in Romania, tracks the aftermath of the December 1989 revolution and the attempts to develop a new political culture. Unfortunately Romania is still experiencing...

Needless Deaths in the Gulf War.
November 1, 1992... Syria Unmasked is unusual in that it examines not only the present human rights abuses in Syria, but the human rights situation over the twenty-year rule of President Hasfez Asad. The status of human rights in the areas of censorship, and the...

Syria Unmasked: The Suppression of Human Rights by the Asad Regime.
November 1, 1992... Syria Unmasked is unusual in that it examines not only the present human rights abuses in Syria, but the human rights situation over the twenty-year rule of President Hasfez Asad. The status of human rights in the areas of censorship, and the...

Prison Conditions in India.
November 1, 1992... The Prison Project works with the five regional divisions of Human Rights Watch to investigate a single issue: prison conditions. Of the four reports produced in conjunction with the Prison Project, the report on prison conditions in Israel...

Prison Conditions in Mexico.
November 1, 1992... The Prison Project works with the five regional divisions of Human Rights Watch to investigate a single issue: prison conditions. Of the four reports produced in conjunction with the Prison Project, the report on prison conditions in Israel and...

Prison Conditions in Poland.
November 1, 1992... The Prison Project works with the five regional divisions of Human Rights Watch to investigate a single issue: prison conditions. Of the four reports produced in conjunction with the Prison Project, the report on prison conditions in Israel and...

Criminal Injustice: Violence Against Women in Brazil.
November 1, 1992... The Women's Rights Project published one report in 1991. The report, Criminal Injustice: Violence Against Women in Brazil, was prepared in conjunction with America Watch. A mission entered Brazil to investigate violence against women and assess...

Cry, the Beloved Country.
November 1, 1992... By Alan Paton (New York: Macmillan, 1987), 283 pp.; $5.95. I first read Cry, the Beloved Country in Mr. Worthington's English class in Wanganui, New Zealand in 1957. It was my last year in high school. The year before, the South African...

The Autobiography of Malcolm X.
November 1, 1992... By Alex Hailey and Malcolm X (New York: Grove Press, Inc., 1964), 455 pp.; Rights now belong to Ballentine Books, New York. $5.95 pap. I can vividly recall the first time I read The Autobiography of Malcolm X. It was in the mid-to-late...

Evil Days: Thirty Years of War and Famine in Ethiopia.
November 1, 1992... By Alex de Waal (New York: Human Rights Watch, 1991), 386 pp.; $15.00. When Mengistu Haile Mariam's brutal Soviet-backed regime was over thrown last year, Ethiopia's new leaders announced that former officials would be tried for the human...

Human Rights and Third World Development.
November 1, 1992... edited by George W. Shepherd, Jr., and Ved P. Nanda (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1985), 330 pp., $49.95. The relationship between human rights and development, particularly in the third world, is one of the most widely-debated...

Human Rights Watch: World Report, 1991.
November 1, 1992... In early 1991, Human Rights Watch published its annual World Report, which reviews human rights conditions worldwide. The report provides not only a compact and concise evaluation of the human rights conditions in the countries and areas Human...

Destroying Ethnic Identity: The Gypsies in Bulgaria.
November 1, 1992... The report Destroying Ethnic Identity: The Gypsies in Bulgaria is a less extensive investigation of the Gypsy situation in Bulgaria than the previously discussed report on the situation of the Gypsies in Romania. Again, the research team...

Prison Conditions in Israel and the Occupied Territories: A Middle East Watch Report.
November 1, 1992... The Prison Project works with the five regional divisions of Human Rights Watch to investigate a single issue: prison conditions. Of the four reports produced in conjunction with the Prison Project, the report on prison conditions in Israel and...