Recent Articles
OCT 6, 2000 • Article
Human Rights Dialogue (1994–2005): Series 2, No. 4 (Fall 2000): Who Can Protect Workers' Rights? The Workplace Codes of Conduct Debates: Articles: A Labor Viewpoint on Workplace Codes of Conduct
The plight of banana workers highlights the need for new international trade union action: the code of conduct campaign to fight the brutal consequences ...
OCT 6, 2000 • Article
Human Rights Dialogue (1994–2005): Series 2, No. 4 (Fall 2000): Who Can Protect Workers' Rights? The Workplace Codes of Conduct Debates: Articles: NGO-Labor Union Tensions on the Ground
There are serious tensions between NGOs and trade unions, two major advocates of workers’ rights, that underlie any discussion of workplace codes of conduct. The ...
OCT 6, 2000 • Article
Human Rights Dialogue (1994–2005): Series 2, No. 4 (Fall 2000): Who Can Protect Workers' Rights? The Workplace Codes of Conduct Debates: Articles: The Promise of Corporate Codes of Conduct
Both voluntary codes of conduct and legal regulation are clearly needed, but Donaldson argues that codes are more effective when owned by the ...
SEP 18, 2000 • Article
U.S. Policy in the Balkans: Priorities for a New Administration
For the last ten years the succession of crises in the Balkans has challenged the international community to devise a long-term policy aimed at resolving ...
AUG 6, 2000 • Article
Human Rights Dialogue (1994–2005): Series 2, No. 3 (Summer 2000): Silence Breaking: The Women's Dimension of the Human Rights Box: Articles: Basic Christian Communities: Reaching Women in Brazil's Popular Sectors
The Basic Christian Communities (CEBs) provide a space for discussion of patriarchy and other social justice concerns. They have helped women to reflect ...
AUG 6, 2000 • Article
Human Rights Dialogue (1994–2005): Series 2, No. 3 (Summer 2000): Silence Breaking: The Women's Dimension of the Human Rights Box: Articles: Women's Rights in the Context of Insurgency: A Report from Northeast India
India’s Northeast is under a near-constant state of emergency, with tensions frequently erupting between locals and the Indian security forces. L. Anna Pinto examines ...
AUG 6, 2000 • Article
Human Rights Dialogue (1994–2005): Series 2, No. 3 (Summer 2000): Silence Breaking: The Women's Dimension of the Human Rights Box: Articles: The Hope of Human Rights in Combating Welfare "Reform"
Because the majority of Americans have not accepted the international human rights framework, the most effective course of action is to work with low-income ...
AUG 6, 2000 • Article
Human Rights Dialogue (1994–2005): Series 2, No. 3 (Summer 2000): Silence Breaking: The Women's Dimension of the Human Rights Box: Articles: Fifteen Years after the World Charter for Prostitutes' Rights
The fight for sex workers’ rights is a difficult one because few NGOs and human rights organizations understand the nature of sex work or are ...
AUG 6, 2000 • Article
Human Rights Dialogue (1994–2005): Series 2, No. 3 (Summer 2000): Silence Breaking: The Women's Dimension of the Human Rights Box: Articles: Ending Female Genital Mutilation without Human Rights: Two Approaches-Sierra Leone
It is more effective to avoid the cultural and religious rationales of FGM and instead concentrate on the associated health risks, thus creating a more ...
AUG 6, 2000 • Article
Human Rights Dialogue (1994–2005): Series 2, No. 3 (Summer 2000): Silence Breaking: The Women's Dimension of the Human Rights Box: Articles: Ending Female Genital Mutilation without Human Rights: Two Approaches-Egypt
FGM can be dismantled by persistent questioning. An appeal informed by an understanding of human rights, but which draws upon local cultural and religious notions ...