Recent Articles
APR 22, 2005 • Article
Human Rights Dialogue (1994–2005): Series 2 No. 12 (Spring 2005): Cultural Rights: Section 2: Cultural Rights In The Age Of The 'War On Terror'
Kristen Ghodsee and Christian Filipov demonstrate the effects of tensions introduced into national Bulgarian politics by the requirements of participation in the European Union and ...
APR 22, 2005 • Article
Human Rights Dialogue (1994–2005): Series 2 No. 12 (Spring 2005): Cultural Rights: Section 2: When Rites Are Rights: Cultural Challenges To Marriage Laws
Alison Dundes Renteln explores the role of culture in the legal recognition of marriage in the United States and elsewhere, demonstrating how legal definitions of ...
APR 22, 2005 • Article
Human Rights Dialogue (1994–2005): Series 2 No. 12 (Spring 2005): Cultural Rights: Section 3: The Distinctive Culture Test
In Canada, the application of a "distinctive culture test" is a well-intentioned effort to apply standards to cultural distinctiveness. Yet it is not without its ...
APR 22, 2005 • Article
Human Rights Dialogue (1994–2005): Series 2 No. 12 (Spring 2005): Cultural Rights: Section 3: A European Experiment In Protecting Cultural Rights
Will Kymlicka argues that, as Europe continues to institutionalize its union, the cultural rights approach it has adopted falls short of comprehensively addressing the variable ...
APR 22, 2005 • Article
Human Rights Dialogue (1994–2005): Series 2 No. 12 (Spring 2005): Cultural Rights: Section 3: The UN Human Rights Committee's Decisions
Over the past twenty-five years, virtually every time a cultural minority has petitioned the Human Rights Committee under Article 27 of the ICCPR, it has failed. ...
APR 22, 2005 • Article
Human Rights Dialogue (1994–2005): Series 2 No. 12 (Spring 2005): Cultural Rights: Section 3: Cultural Rights And Intellectual Property Debates
Drawing upon the case of the appropriation of the music of Taiwan's Ami people by the band Enigma, Rosemary Coombe explores how best to protect ...
APR 22, 2005 • Article
Human Rights Dialogue (1994–2005): Series 2 No. 12 (Spring 2005): Cultural Rights: Online Exclusive: A South African Commission's Mandate To Protect Cultural Rights
The 2004 creation of the CRL Commission to address cultural rights marked the final effort by the South African government to bridge the racial and socioeconomic ...
MAR 28, 2005 • Article
The Ethical Limits to Preventive War
The purpose of this research is to examine if there is in fact a general democratic anti-preventive war norm, to what extent this norm might ...
MAR 28, 2005 • Article
The Rockefeller Foundation in Sardinia: Pesticide Politics in the Struggle Against Malaria
By most accounts within and beyond Italy today, the Rockefeller Foundation freed Sardinia of malaria, catalyzing the island's subsequent economic miracle. Yet malaria is an ...
MAR 18, 2005 • Article
Rwanda to Darfur
"Are all humans human, or are some more human than others?" asks Roméo Dallaire.