Recent Articles
APR 6, 2000 • Article
Human Rights Dialogue (1994–2005): Series 2, No. 2 (Spring 2000): Litigating Human Rights: Promise v. Perils: Articles: Caught in the Claws of the Rich: The Struggle of the Mapalad Farmers
Even with legal knowledge and public support, the law is a double-edged sword: It protects the interests of the poor and implements reforms, but it ...
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.