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: Introduction: Who Can Protect Workers' Rights? The Workplace Codes of Conduct Debates
This issue of Human Rights Dialogue explores ways to increase participation in the human rights movement and access to the benefits of human rights through ...
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: Reflections of a Global Women's Activist
The focus of criminal justice systems on “finding the bad guy,” without a comprehensive analysis of what perpetuates abuses, often renders women as “victims.” Creating ...
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 "Capabilities" Advantage to Promoting Women's Human Rights
Nussbaum's "capabilities approach" clearly articulates the motivating concerns and ultimate goals of social justice, and provides a benchmark with which to measure what it means ...
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 ...
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: 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: 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 ...