Recent Articles
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.
MAR 8, 2005 • Article
America and the World: Ethical Dimensions to Power
A discussion between Joel H. Rosenthal, Michael J. Smith, William F. Felice, and Donald Eastman that took place March 8, 2005. It was the third in a ...
JAN 26, 2005 • Article
Accountability: How to Treat Unlawful Combatants
If I were giving President Bush advice for his second term, I would argue that the new administration ought to establish an accountability mechanism–a ...
JAN 26, 2005 • Article
Accountability: How to Treat Unlawful Combatants
"If I were giving President Bush advice for his second term, I would argue that the new administration ought to establish an accountability mechanism--a task ...
JAN 25, 2005 • Article
Learning from Environmental Justice: A New Model for International Environmental Rights
International environmental justice presents difficulties for courts and advocates seeking to characterize problems at this intersection of environmental, human rights, and anti-discrimination law. Osofsky ...