Human Rights Quarterly articles from November 1994

Human Rights Quarterly archives from November 1994

Fifteen truth commissions - 1974 to 1994: a comparative study.
November 1, 1994... TABLE OF CONTENTS I. TRUTH COMMISSIONS: AN OVERVIEW 598 The Context: Defining the Parameters 600 Table I: Truth Commissions in Brief 601 ...

Truth commissions for Chile and El Salvador: a report and assessment.
November 1, 1994... I. INTRODUCTION In the Americas, Chile and El Salvador have provided the most recent experiments with truth commissions. The Chilean Truth and Reconciliation Commission and the Salvadoran Commission on the Truth were formed in...

The politics of measurement: the contested count of the disappeared in Argentina.
November 1, 1994... INTRODUCTION Measurement is a critical first step in assessing human rights violations, comparing cases, and designing appropriate international and domestic policies. But measurement is not a neutral technical exercise; in public...

Measuring state compliance with the obligation to devote the "maximum available resources" to realizing economic, social and cultural rights.
November 1, 1994... I. INTRODUCTION Through millions of years, people sought their own sustenance without thought of assistance from a political entity. Human migration and evolution were shaped by the individual struggle for basic needs like food,...

Banning land mines.
November 1, 1994... I. INTRODUCTION The world community is accustomed to certain limiting principles in international armed conflicts. For example, the employment of gas and biological weapons has been banned under both the 1907 Hague Convention (IV) and...

Universality of human rights and cultural diversity: implementation of human rights in different socio-cultural contexts.
November 1, 1994... THE NATURE OF THE DEBATE Forty-five years ago, on 10 December 1948, the international community adopted, by consensus, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights,(1) still the preeminent document in the growing corpus of human rights...

DIANA: a human rights database.
November 1, 1994... There is a growing expectation among scholars from all disciplines that the resources of the world's research libraries be brought to the desktop. The complex universe of human rights literature invites both the electronic delivery of...

Employment and Human Rights: The International Dimension.
November 1, 1994... The authors of the two books under review would like to thrust the now taboo subjects of "full employment" and the "right to employment" toward the center of debates on human rights and the future of so-called "civilization." The books...

Jobs for All: A Plan for the Revitalization of America.
November 1, 1994... The authors of the two books under review would like to thrust the now taboo subjects of "full employment" and the "right to employment" toward the center of debates on human rights and the future of so-called "civilization." The books...

Beyond Charity: International Cooperation and the Global Refugee Crisis.
November 1, 1994... One of the major issues facing the international community is the growing number of refugees in all regions of the world. It is a "major issue" because Western governments perceive that refugee movements from the South and the former Soviet...

On Human Rights: The Oxford Amnesty Lectures, 1993.
November 1, 1994... Gathered in this volume are seven essays that had their origin in 1993 as lectures given at Oxford University under the auspices of Amnesty International. The lectures/essays are by "[s]peakers of international reputation," as the editors...

Problems and Process: International Law and How We Use It.
November 1, 1994... This volume is based upon the set of lectures constituting the General Course in International Law at the Hague Academy. Professor Higgins, who serves as a member of the Human Rights Committee set up under the International Covenant on Civil...

The Chosen Primate: Human Nature and Cultural Diversity.
November 1, 1994... The author, a professor of Social Anthropology at Brunel University, was the editor of Current Anthropology from 1985-1991. Written in a lucid style, this book reviews the history of major debates on human origin, the hisotyr of human culture,...

U.S. Ratification of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination.
November 1, 1994... As the Senate considers ratification of the Race Convention, the Law Group is to be commended for the preparation of an excellent report examining the provisions of the treaty and their relation to current US constitutional and statutory laws....

The Chamber.
November 1, 1994... Fans of John Grisham, the lawyer turned novelist, and they number in the millions, will be pleased that once again he has produced a "page turner." The central setting is death row, Mississippi. Grisham is to be commended on the selection of...