Human Rights Review articles from January 1 2001

Human Rights Review archives from January 1 2001

The Future of Tibet: A Chinese Dilemma.(obsolete imperialism or modern democracy)
January 1, 2001... Recent commentary and books on Tibet have emphasized the serious dilemma facing the Dalai Lama. [1] Well-meaning accounts have noted the reality that China's policies in Tibet have not only denied Tibetan self-rule but may eventually result...

"No One Shall Be Held in Slavery or Servitude": A Critical Analysis of International Slavery Agreements and Concepts of Slavery [1].(difficulties of definition and redress)
January 1, 2001... Most historians of slavery do not know how lucky they are. The majority of scholars concerned with slavery focus on the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the legal slave trade of the period, and its aftermath. For these scholars, the...

Humiliation and Human Rights: Mapping a Minefield.(dignity and shame are culturally specific, not universal)
January 1, 2001... A major cause of socio-political violence is the social process of humiliation, whose main elements are closely related to central aspects of the cultural repertoire of complex societies. This paper presents the outlines of a theory of...

Human Rights Violations by the Police.
January 1, 2001... In some parts of the world, police forces are known for the brutality with which they operate. In Kosovo, for instance, the Serbian police functioned as a kind of paramilitary organization, responsible for numerous atrocities. In countries...

Splitting the Difference: Partnering with Non-Governmental Organizations to Manage HIV/AIDS Epidemics in Australia and Thailand.
January 1, 2001... Introduction The progression of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus/Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (HIV/AIDS) pandemic since its discovery in the early 1980s has been accompanied by a deepening understanding of the relationship between...

On the Moral Blindness of Communism.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Among the questions which The Black Book of Communism poses is one as old as Communism itself. It is a question that has been addressed from the beginning by its enemies and by its friends and, from within, by an unending succession of...

Communism and the Human Condition: Reflections on The Black Book of Communism.(ethical aspects)
January 1, 2001... In a famous scene in his novel La condition humaine (translated into English as Man's Fate), Andre Malraux captured the great dream of twentieth-century Communism (or at least the romantic-heroic moments associated with what the French writer...

What Future for the Future? Reflections on The Black Book of Communism.(Review)
January 1, 2001... The verdict is increasingly clear: the twentieth century was an unmitigated disaster, a shattered mirror that lies in shards at our feet. This is a remarkable judgment about a century that was regarded with unparalleled optimism by those who...

"It Should Have Been Written Here": Germany and The Black Book.(impact of intellectual fatigue)
January 1, 2001... I After the furor created in 1997 in France by the publication of Livre noir du Communisme [The Black Book of Communism], under the general editorship of Stephane Courtois, some observers expected its German edition in May 1998 to create...