OIL, DIAMONDS, AND SUNLIGHT: FOSTERING HUMAN RIGHTS THROUGH TRANSPARENCY...

Georgetown Journal of International Law;  October 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ......and promote human rights.5 As these...to improve human rights could accomplish...revenue for extractive industries. Disclosure...links between human rights and corruption...transparency to extractive industries and the governments...that relate to ...

A truth not quite self-evident Noel Malcolm considers the unsolved...

The Sunday Telegraph London;  December 23, 2001 ;     700+ words ...Human Rights as Politics and Idolatry by Michael Ignatieff Princeton...The decades following the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948 have seen a remarkable growth of human rights law and human rights institutions. What was once the...

Bush's Policy on Human Rights Called Shortsighted; White House `Too Ready...

The Washington Post;  December 29, 1991 ;     634 words ...Human rights around the world took a back seat in the Bush White House during 1991, the group Human Rights Watch said in its ninth annual report...administration took a bold line in defense of human rights, the New York-based, independent monitoring...

Human Rights and Reform: Changing the Face of North African Politics

The Middle East Journal;  July 1, 1996 ;     700+ words ...Human Rights and Reform: Changing the Face of North...paper. Reviewed by Maryam Elahi The human rights movement in the Maghrib has had significant...examining the role played by the Maghribi human rights movement in integrating the notion of...

PROMOTING HUMAN RIGHTS AND NORWEGIAN LAW.

International Journal of Humanities and Peace;  January 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ...Human rights are central to the Norwegian Government's policies. With the focus, Human rights start at home, the Norwegian Government has submitted a new Plan of Action for Human Rights, which outlines more than 300 measures and takes a clear stand...

U.N.: NEW SECRETARY-GENERAL MUST LEAD ON HUMAN RIGHTS

Targeted News Service;  October 3, 2006 ;     615 words ...Human Rights Watch issued the following news release: The...must be prepared to speak out publicly against human rights abusers wherever they are found, however powerful they are, Human Rights Watch said today. The Security Council late...

Human Rights Groups Worldwide Call on UN Members to Reject Belarus'...

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  May 2, 2007 ;     542 words ...Human Rights Watch issued the following news release: Belarus' record on human rights makes the country a supremely unfit candidate for the United Nations Human Rights Council, a coalition of more than 40 national and international human rights...

Actions focus on guarding human rights

China Daily;  March 16, 2004 ;     490 words ...Human rights experts and scholars yesterday urged...after the Sunday amendment which adds human rights protection into the Chinese Constitution...amendment as "a milestone" in China's human rights development, they suggested institutional...

Human rights report finds wrongs; Have your say on human rights

The Press;  September 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ...The Human Rights Commission today issued its first report card on the state of human rights in New Zealand, an overview which highlights...themselves on giving everyone a fair go, but Chief Human Rights Commissioner Rosslyn Noonan warns a significant...

Public Backs Strong Human Rights Policy in France

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  October 9, 2007 ;     453 words ...Human Rights Watch issued the following news release: (Paris) - Eighty-seven...should play a more active role on the European scene to protect human rights worldwide, Human Rights Watch said today. At a news conference to open its' Paris office...

Reconciling conceptual and measurement problems in the comparative study...

International Journal of Comparative Sociology;  January 1, 1994 ;     700+ words ...HUMAN RIGHTS DEBATES and research have long been...this conflict is the dichotomization of human rights into civil and political rights on the...Although the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Un Covenant of 1966 clearly...

Human rights, corporate wrongs?

The World Today;  August 1, 1998 ;     700+ words ......Universal Declaration of Human Rights. When multi-national...lesser extent, on the human rights situation. Whether...company's policy on human rights. Through engagement...UNIVERSAL DECLARATION of Human Rights (UDHR) was developed...understanding of human ...

The business of human rights

The Press;  August 29, 2005 ;     700+ words ...Human rights and social considerations...BUSINESS ACTION ON HUMAN RIGHTS * Implementing voluntary principles on security and human rights (HR) Aim: to prevent complicity...forces. Applies: adopted by extractive industries but applies to all companies...compact principles ...

Human Rights and the World's Major Religions, 5 vols.(Book review)

Journal of Church and State;  June 22, 2006 ;     700+ words ...Human Rights and the World's Major Religions. Five volumes. Edited...has struggled to collaborate and create a universal human rights regime that promotes a corpus of inviolable human rights not just accepted but lodged within all cultures...

Human rights imperialism.

Monthly Review;  March 1, 1998 ;     700+ words ...Human Rights has been for a generation the chosen battlefield...sets itself up as the universal arbiter of human rights. Its propagandists argue that the sole alternative to the universality of human rights as set out by Jesse Helms, Madeleine Albright...