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MAY 6, 2001 Article

Human Rights Dialogue (1994–2005): Series 2, No. 6 (Spring/Summer 2001): Rights and the Struggle for Health: Articles: The New Partnership of Health and Human Rights

The linking of health and human rights (H&HR) describes health status by the degree to which human rights are enjoyed. It&...

MAY 6, 2001 Article

Human Rights Dialogue (1994–2005): Series 2, No. 6 (Spring/Summer 2001): Rights and the Struggle for Health: Online Exclusive: Balancing Population Concerns with Women's Rights

India's population policy has adopted a human rights language. But, as Rachel Kumar explains, women's reproductive rights are still in danger

MAY 6, 2001 Article

Human Rights Dialogue (1994–2005): Series 2, No. 6 (Spring/Summer 2001): Rights and the Struggle for Health: Online Exclusive: The Limits of Human Rights in Vietnam

While human rights are not unheard of in Vietnam, Nguyen Thi Minh Chau and Julie Yoder explain, they are of limited use in addressing the ...

MAY 6, 2001 Article

Human Rights Dialogue (1994–2005): Series 2, No. 6 (Spring/Summer 2001): Rights and the Struggle for Health: Online Exclusive: Protecting the Mentally Disabled

Albania's treatment of the mentally disabled needs improvement. Harvey Weinstein, Ira Burnim, and Robert Okin tell how a human rights framework can help.

APR 19, 2001 Article

Willing to Kill But Not to Die?

Is American policy drifting toward an approach that could be labeled "willing to kill but not to die"? If we consider ourselves a moral nation, ...

APR 19, 2001 Article

Exempting the United States from Equal Justice under Law

The International Criminal Court will indict individuals, not governments, and it will try only those accused of especially horrible crimes that "shock the conscience of ...

Should States Apologize?

APR 19, 2001 Article

Should States Apologize?

According to Chinese President Jiang Zemin, the United States owed China an official apology (baoqian) for sending out a spy plane that collided with a ...

MAR 27, 2001 Article

Aid to the Former Yugoslavia

This report on the Balkans Forum held on Capitol Hill by the Carnegie Council's Conflict Prevention Program includes annotated links to primary source information, special ...

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.