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APR 6, 2000 Article

Human Rights Dialogue (1994–2005): Series 2, No. 2 (Spring 2000): Litigating Human Rights: Promise v. Perils: Articles: Introduction: Human Rights Litigation: Promise v. Perils

This issue of Human Rights Dialogue examines human rights litigation as one aspect of the “human rights box.” It also seeks to investigate ways ...

APR 6, 2000 Article

Human Rights Dialogue (1994–2005): Series 2, No. 2 (Spring 2000): Litigating Human Rights: Promise v. Perils: Articles: Big Oil in Louisiana and a Community's Bottom Line

"Everyone was sick–sore throats, burning eyes, headaches, dizziness, nausea, diarrhea. Convoys of trucks were bringing in waste daily, and the smell was everywhere. In ...

FEB 25, 2000 Article

Reconciling Economic Imperatives with Social Priorities: the Global Compact

Globalization has increasingly disconnected one single element—networks of production and finance—from an overall system of institutional relations. The resulting disequillibria in ...

FEB 9, 2000 Article

Democracy Beyond the State: The European Dilemma and the Emerging Global Order

States and citizens within the European Union are now far along in a vast experiment involving an attempt to use the dynamism of market-capitalism to ...

FEB 2, 2000 Article

Lesson for Israel: Reconciliation Begins at Home

Security issues do not justify many of the inconsistencies in how Israel treats its Arab minority.

DEC 10, 1999 Article

Managing the Social Consequences of Economic Crisis

Paper presented at the Workshop on Social Policy Principles and The Social Development Agenda Pocantico Conference Center of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund December 3-5, 1999.

DEC 9, 1999 Article

The Political Consequences of Global Inequality within and between Regions of the World

Over the past quarter-century, in most of the world, liberal democracy has flourished and the status of women has improved. Yet, during the same period ...

DEC 5, 1999 Article

Human Rights Dialogue (1994–2005): Series 2, No. 1 (Winter 2000): Human Rights for All? The Problem of the Human Rights Box: Articles: To Our Readers: Human Rights for All? The Problem of the Human Rights Box

In this issue we examine the barriers that prevent a broad cross-section of people from embracing and benefiting from human rights.

DEC 5, 1999 Article

Human Rights Dialogue (1994–2005): Series 2, No. 1 (Winter 2000): Human Rights for All? The Problem of the Human Rights Box: Articles: Why More Africans Don't Use Human Rights Language

What explains the current crisis of human rights and the retreat from the human rights paradigm as an engine of struggle? To begin to ...