Article: Bush Seeks Power to Lift Arms Curbs; Waiver Would Allow Military Assistance to Once-Shunned Nations

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: 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: 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: 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: 2009 World Report: Obama Should Emphasize Human Rights
Targeted News Service;  January 14, 2009 ;     700+ words ...Human Rights Watch issued the following news release...Obama administration will need to put human rights at the heart of foreign, domestic, and...the enormous damage of the Bush years, Human Rights Watch said today in issuing its World...

Article: 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...

Article: 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...

Article: 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...

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

Article: 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...

Article: 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...

Article: 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...

Article: Reconciling conceptual and measurement problems in the comparative study of human rights.
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...