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DEC 5, 1996 • Article
Human Rights Dialogue (1994–2005): Series 1, Number 7 (Winter 1996): New Issues in East Asian Human Rights - A Conference Report: Articles: Globalization and Its Impact on Rights Consciousness
While economic growth can assist the progressive implementation of some social rights such as education, it also tends to generate new abuses, such as poor ...
DEC 5, 1996 • Article
Human Rights Dialogue (1994–2005): Series 1, Number 7 (Winter 1996): New Issues in East Asian Human Rights - A Conference Report: Articles: Identity, Recognition, and Group Rights
The threat of either homogenization or "forced multiculturalism" posed by globalization has fueled crises of identity, the politics of difference, and struggles for recognition. Indigenous ...
DEC 5, 1996 • Article
Human Rights Dialogue (1994–2005): Series 1, Number 7 (Winter 1996): New Issues in East Asian Human Rights - A Conference Report: Articles: The Role of Cultural Reflection
Relative to globalization and development imperatives, renewed reflection on cultural traditions played a lesser, or not clearly delineated, role as the impetus for emerging rights ...
DEC 5, 1996 • Article
Human Rights Dialogue (1994–2005): Series 1, Number 7 (Winter 1996): New Issues in East Asian Human Rights - A Conference Report: Articles: Shifting Responsibility: State and Nonstate Actors
When the factors of social disintegration deny the realization of particular rights to an individual or collective, who in a given society is expected to ...
DEC 5, 1996 • Article
Human Rights Dialogue (1994–2005): Series 1, Number 7 (Winter 1996): New Issues in East Asian Human Rights - A Conference Report: Articles: Challenges to and Prospects for Implementation
What can human rights proponents do when victims, say prostitutes, see their work not so much as a violation of their dignity—let alone a ...
NOV 6, 1996 • Article
Nizer Lectures (1994–1998): Ethical Issues for Today
What is the difference between ethics and law? Unlike the law, ethics involves other people, says Elie Wiesel, in this powerful, moving, and wide-ranging talk ...
SEP 5, 1996 • Article
Human Rights Dialogue (1994–2005): Series 1, Number 6 (Fall 1996): The Human Rights Discourse in East Asia: Reports from the Region: Articles: SOUTH KOREA
Articles examined are "Issues Concerning Foreign Workers in Korea;" "Police Attitudes Toward Battered Women;" "The Rights of the Child in the Republic of Korea;""Status ...
SEP 5, 1996 • Article
Human Rights Dialogue (1994–2005): Series 1, Number 6 (Fall 1996): The Human Rights Discourse in East Asia: Reports from the Region: Articles: CHINA
Xia and Hecht discuss Contemporary Human Rights, Origins of the Human Rights Concept; Criminal Procedure Law of the People's Republic of China; Survey of Capital ...
SEP 5, 1996 • Article
Human Rights Dialogue (1994–2005): Series 1, Number 6 (Fall 1996): The Human Rights Discourse in East Asia: Reports from the Region: Articles: MALAYSIA
Examined are Two Faces: Detention Without Trial; "Why the EIA of the Bakun Project is Invalid;" "Kenapa EIA Projek Hiro Elektrik Bakun Tidak Sah," ...