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MAR 19, 2001 Article

The Details Matter: Human Rights and the War on Terrorism

Is a deepening clash between human rights and national security inevitable?

FEB 15, 2001 Article

Moral Dilemmas of U.S. Policy Toward Iraq

When it comes to issues such as imposing sanctions, pursuing assassination, overthrowing regimes, and waging war, the moral questions may be the most important ones.

JAN 20, 2001 Article

Human Rights Dialogue (1994–2005): Series 2, No. 5 (Winter 2001): Human Rights in Times of Conflict: Humanitarian Intervention: Articles: Introduction: Human Rights in Times of Conflict: Humanitarian Intervention

The most immediate and visible effect of humanitarian intervention is on the actual human rights abuses that it is supposed to stem. Does the intervention ...

JAN 6, 2001 Article

Human Rights Dialogue (1994–2005): Series 2, No. 5 (Winter 2001): Human Rights in Times of Conflict: Humanitarian Intervention: Articles: Post-Conflict Institutions That Promote Human Rights: The Human Rights Chamber of Bosnia-Herzegovina

Recent military humanitarian intervention has been based on the need to protect human rights, and a successful military campaign under this banner must assure ...

JAN 6, 2001 Article

Human Rights Dialogue (1994–2005): Series 2, No. 5 (Winter 2001): Human Rights in Times of Conflict: Humanitarian Intervention: Articles: Kosovo's Little-Known Victims: The Fate of the Roma Following the Entry of NATO Troops

Following the return of the ethnic Albanians to Kosovo in June 1999 and the entry of NATO (KFOR) troops into the province, Albanians conducted a sustained ...

JAN 6, 2001 Article

Human Rights Dialogue (1994–2005): Series 2, No. 5 (Winter 2001): Human Rights in Times of Conflict: Humanitarian Intervention: Articles: A Credibility Problem in Kosovo: The Undermining of Local Human Rights Culture

The international community’s failure to respond earlier to human rights violations, its refusal to explain its actions in terms of human rights motivations, and ...

JAN 6, 2001 Article

Human Rights Dialogue (1994–2005): Series 2, No. 5 (Winter 2001): Human Rights in Times of Conflict: Humanitarian Intervention: Articles: A Challenge for Serbian Civil Society: The Death and Rebirth of the Human Rights Movement

Serbian activists realized during the NATO bombing that they were victims of the policies of their own government; but they also felt like victims ...

JAN 6, 2001 Article

Human Rights Dialogue (1994–2005): Series 2, No. 5 (Winter 2001): Human Rights in Times of Conflict: Humanitarian Intervention: Articles: The Successes and Failures of UN Intervention in East Timor

Magno observes: "Every time you talk about an international tribunal with someone who works for the U.N. in East Timor they say, 'Well, you ...

JAN 6, 2001 Article

Human Rights Dialogue (1994–2005): Series 2, No. 5 (Winter 2001): Human Rights in Times of Conflict: Humanitarian Intervention: Articles: Inconsistency and the Tragedy of Africa's Neglect

Humanitarian intervention is based on the alleviation of human rights violations, but recent actions in Sierra Leone and Kosovo suggest that the practice has less ...