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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 ...

Rwanda to Darfur

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 ...

Honor Bound Guard Tower at JTF Guantanamo. CREDIT: <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/thenationalguard/5343896666">National Guard</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 ...