Human Rights Quarterly articles from November 1993

Human Rights Quarterly archives from November 1993

Human rights at the dawn of the 21st Century. (Council of Europe meeting in preparation for the 1993 U.N. World Conference on Human Rights)
November 1, 1993... I. INTRODUCTORY REMARKS It has been a special privilege for me to attend this conference and to act as your general rapporteur especially at an interregional and intercultural meeting attended by experts from many parts of the globe and...

Empowering visions: toward a dialectical pedagogy of human rights.
November 1, 1993... CONTENTS INTRODUCTION I. HUMAN RIGHTS EDUCATION IN CONTEXT: POSITIONING PEDAGOGICAL PROGRAMS WITHIN THE INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS MOVEMENT A. The First Dimension of Advocacy: Pursuing Individual Cases ...

Labelling the "boat people": the failure of the human rights mandate of the Comprehensive Plan of Action for Indochinese Refugees.
November 1, 1993... I. INTRODUCTION The legal status of Vietnamese asylum-seekers has not been defined in a consistently principled way. Initially, the Vietnamese boat people benefitted from a presumption of genuine refugee status codified at the 1979...

Africa: democracy without human rights?
November 1, 1993... Akwasi Aidoo(2) There is nothing mysterious about the foundations of a healthy and strong democracy. The basic things expected by our people of their political and economic systems are simple. They are: equality of opportunity for youth...

Collectively defending democracy in a world of sovereign states: the Western Hemisphere's prospect.
November 1, 1993... I. INTRODUCTION: JOURNEYING TOWARD DEMOCRACY The collapse and disappearance of the Soviet Union ended a half century of world history dominated by the East-West conflict. This seismic shift in the structure of world politics coincides...

Structural adjustment and development: human rights - an agenda for change.
November 1, 1993... Rights involves power, struggle for power and distribution of power.(2) I. INTRODUCTION A World Bank study on the Social Dimension of Adjustment in Africa(3) indicates that structural adjustment(4) will necessarily increase costs...

The Politics of Psychiatry in Revolutionary Cuba.
November 1, 1993... Fidel Castro's absolute power in Cuba is coming to an end; there is only disagreement on how and when it will happen. The romantic saga of his revolution as well as his own charismatic personality have allowed him to garner make-believers in...