Article: An Olympian task ; Clifford Coonan in Beijing and Raymond Whitaker check out 10 high hurdles host nation China has to clear for success

Article: The History of Human Rights: From Ancient Times to the Globalization Era.(Book review)
Canadian Journal of History;  December 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ...The History of Human Rights: From Ancient Times to the Globalization...begins Micheline Ishay her History of Human Rights, only to argue over the next 350...legislation. To win the fight for human rights in the twenty-first century, Ishay...

Article: Can Human Rights Survive?(Book review)
Stanford Journal of International Law;  June 22, 2007 ;     700+ words ...Can Human Rights Survive? By Conor Gearty, New York, NY: Cambridge...Gearty believes will serve as a manifesto for human rights activists and thinkers. He argues that the concept of human rights radicalizes, forcing people to recognize their...

Article: Human rights can be manifested differently
China Daily;  December 12, 2005 ;     700+ words ...A unique outlook on human rights has taken shape in China, the largest...the country's own experience in human rights development over the last two decades...China has also absorbed rational human rights ideas from other cultures. Human...

Article: The measurement and structure of human rights attitudes.
The Journal of Social Psychology;  June 1, 1995 ;     700+ words ...The concept of human rights as rights of the individual is a...Today, the concept of individual human rights is a familiar one that has been...and the European Convention for Human Rights. Perhaps the best known human rights...

Article: A truth not quite self-evident Noel Malcolm considers the unsolved dilemmas of the ever more powerful human rights movement
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...

Article: Human rights in a post-Cold War world.
National Forum;  September 22, 1992 ;     700+ words ...The idea of human rights is one of the most appealing contributions...revolutions, the abstract concept of human rights has generated broad support. In the...are demanding greater attention to human rights. Zbigniew Brzezinski, national security...

Article: Full Text: National Human Rights Action Plan of China (2009- 2010)(22)
Xinhua News Agency;  April 12, 2009 ;     700+ words ...Full Text: National Human Rights Action Plan of China (2009- 2010)(22) - The state...higher learning to conduct research and education in human rights theory. Investigations into human rights education will be conducted in a number of institutions...

Article: Developing human rights competencies for South African health professional graduates.(Editorial)
South African Medical Journal;  December 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ...Human rights are social or material entitlements which are...investigation into health sector complicity in human rights abuses under the apartheid system, recommended that human rights training be made central to the mission of institutions...

Article: Inclusion of Human Rights in the Constitution -- An Important Milestone in China's Human RightsDevelopment (1)
Xinhua News Agency;  March 14, 2004 ;     602 words ...Inclusion of Human Rights in the Constitution -- An Important Milestone in China's Human Rights Development (1) BEIJING, March 14 (Xinhua...Yunhu's comments on China's inclusion of human rights in the Constitution. Inclusion of Human...

Article: Clinton rapped on human rights: Abuses in Africa, Middle East called foreign policy `blind spots'.(World)
The Washington Times;  December 4, 1998 ;     700+ words ...A leading international human rights organization criticized the Clinton...yesterday for turning a blind eye to human rights abuses in large areas of the world over the past year. Human Rights Watch Executive Director Kenneth Roth...

Article: Achieving international justice: human rights promotion and the law.(AN INTERVIEW WITH BERTRAND RAMCHARAN)(Interview)
Harvard International Review;  January 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ...Do universal human rights exist, and if so is it necessary to justify them...OMITTED] There are, without a doubt, universal human rights. The 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights represents a broad consensus on this. In fact...

Article: Chinese Expert on Universal Realization of Human Rights
Xinhua English Newswire;  August 7, 1996 ;     420 words ...Chinese human rights expert Fan Guoxiang stressed at an human rights forum here on Wednesday that universal realization of human rights would not be accomplished without taking into account the historical, cultural and religious particularities...

Article: Bush's Policy on Human Rights Called Shortsighted; White House `Too Ready to Sacrifice' Principle Amid Competing Global Interests, Group Says
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...

Article: Human rights and globalization: is the shrinking world expanding rights?(The Globalization of Human Rights)(Globalization and Human Rights)(Book review)
Human Rights & Human Welfare;  January 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ...The Globalization of Human Rights. Edited by Jean-Marc Coicaud, Michael...Press, 2003. Globalization and Human Rights. Edited by Alison Brysk. Berkely...work in the expanding field of human rights have been no exception and have...