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NOV 25, 1997 Article

Nizer Lectures (1994–1998): Technology and Social Justice

"How can we make ethics drive technology in such a way that the evil consequences are minimized and the good maximized?" In this insightful and ...

SEP 5, 1997 Article

Human Rights Dialogue (1994–2005): Series 1, Number 10 (Fall 1997): Efforts, East and West, to Improve Human Rights Assessments: Articles: ESC Rights Assessments at the UN

United Nations system for monitoring implementation of the International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights (ICESCR), is done by the Committee on Economic, Social, ...

SEP 5, 1997 Article

Human Rights Dialogue (1994–2005): Series 1, Number 10 (Fall 1997): Efforts, East and West, to Improve Human Rights Assessments: Articles: The Need for an Intercivilizational Approach to Evaluating Human Rights

Onuma Yasuaki is engaged in a critique of some of the standards currently used by Western NGOs to assess the state of human rights within ...

SEP 5, 1997 Article

Human Rights Dialogue (1994–2005): Series 1, Number 10 (Fall 1997): Efforts, East and West, to Improve Human Rights Assessments: Articles: Human Rights for the Next Century

Chris Jochnick provides his view on the future of human rights along with the predicted efforts of the United Nations and other NGOs.

SEP 5, 1997 Article

Human Rights Dialogue (1994–2005): Series 1, Number 10 (Fall 1997): Efforts, East and West, to Improve Human Rights Assessments: Articles: "The West" Is Not Only the United States: European Assessments of Human Rights

Peter R. Baehr analyzes the human rights of European nations. These countries continue to contribute to the development of more balanced human rights assessments in ...

SEP 5, 1997 Article

Human Rights Dialogue (1994–2005): Series 1, Number 10 (Fall 1997): Efforts, East and West, to Improve Human Rights Assessments: Articles: Human Rights Assessments: A Role for UNDP?

Håkan Björkman asks whether United Nations development agencies, such as UNICEF, should be assessing human rights around the world.

SEP 5, 1997 Article

Human Rights Dialogue (1994–2005): Series 1, Number 10 (Fall 1997): Efforts, East and West, to Improve Human Rights Assessments: Articles: Bringing Women's Rights Back into the Human Rights Movement

Jessica Neuwirth would like to bring women's rights to the forefront in the human rights movement as most of the UDHR have a far more ...

SEP 5, 1997 Article

Human Rights Dialogue (1994–2005): Series 1, Number 10 (Fall 1997): Efforts, East and West, to Improve Human Rights Assessments: Articles: Assessing Survival Rights: A New Initiative of the Free Legal Assistance Group in the Philippines

Ma. Socorro Diokno believes FLAG’s work is a first step toward the creation of just social structures that could lead to the full ...

SEP 5, 1997 Article

Human Rights Dialogue (1994–2005): Series 1, Number 10 (Fall 1997): Efforts, East and West, to Improve Human Rights Assessments: Articles: A "Violations Approach" to Monitoring the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

Audrey R. Chapman believes the United Nations system and relevant nongovernmental organizations should adopt a "violations approach" to monitoring economic, social, and cultural (ESC) rights.

SEP 5, 1997 Article

Human Rights Dialogue (1994–2005): Series 1, Number 10 (Fall 1997): Efforts, East and West, to Improve Human Rights Assessments: Articles: Examples of Violations

Sites violations resulting from Government Action, Policy, or Legislation, and Related to Patterns of Discrimination, as well as Omission or State Failure to Fulfill Obligations.