International Affairs Forum

Sun. December 16, 2018

Social Media: Humanitarian/Social: Human Rights

151-180 Social Media articles displayed
for the Humanitarian/Social/Human Rights Topic

Humanitarian Aid Is Not a Military Business

In Iraq, the US use of humanitarian aid as a political asset threatens the efficiency and equity of aid operations. (Belfer Center, 4/15/2003) Read More...

Feeding Refugees, or War?

Too often guerrillas pretend to be refugees and siphon off aid to continue their fight. The humanitarians whose help they count on should halt this abuse. By Ben Barber. (Foreign Affairs, 7/1/1997) Read More...

U.S. Foreign Policy Interests and Human Rights in Central Asia

(Heritage Foundation, 7/18/2001) Read More...

Humanitarianism in Crisis

Humanitarian organizations have moved to incorporate human rights and development into their increasingly politicized agendas. Yet in the process, they have abandoned the neutrality and independence t... Read More...

The Attack on Human Rights

The excessive individualism in Western human rights doctrine has been criticized by the Islamic world, East Asia, and some within the West itself. But human rights are necessary worldwide precisely be... Read More...

Are Human Rights Universal?

More and more, the universality of human rights is being challenged. But groups such as the Taliban, who claim to stand for specific values, rarely speak for those they supposedly represent. Herewith ... Read More...

Sidelined on Human Rights: America Bows Out

By blocking international treaties banning land mines and child soldiers, the United States has become an obstacle to the advancement of human rights law. By Kenneth Roth. (Foreign Affairs, 3/1/1998) Read More...

The Spotlight and the Bottom Line: How Multinationals Export Human Rights

The conventional wisdom is that U.S. multinationals exploit foreign workers, but the glare of 1990s publicity is driving many firms to export human rights. By Debora L. Spar. (Foreign Affairs, 3/1/1... Read More...

The Specter of Secession: Responding to Claims for Ethnic Self-Determination

A set of principled criteria for responding to claims for ethnic self-determination is long overdue. Policymakers' foremost goal should be protecting human rights. By Hurst Hannum. (Foreign Affairs, ... Read More...

Managing Pluralism: The Human Rights Challenge of the New Century

By Nikolas Gvosdev. (World Policy Journal, 12/1/2001) Read More...

Beyond Ping-Pong Diplomacy: China and Human Rights

(World Policy Journal, 12/1/2000) Read More...

Enforcing Human Rights

(World Policy Journal, 9/1/1999) Read More...

National Human Rights Commissions and Internally Displaced Persons: Sri Lanka

(Brookings Institute, 1/1/2002) Read More...

Human Rights in China

(Brookings Institute, 6/1/1999) Read More...

BBC In Depth: Burma protests remembered

In the summer of 1988 the people of Burma poured onto the streets in their tens of thousands, calling for basic human rights, and democracy. The country's military rulers crushed the protests, and rem... Read More...

BBC In Depth: Human Rights UK

Fifty years after it was first signed by the members of the Council of Europe, the European Convention on Human Rights has become part of British law. (1/1/2000) Read More...

BBC In Depth: Human Rights in Europe

News and analysis of human rights stories affecting Europe. (3/28/2003) Read More...

The Struggle for Russia

The arrest last month of Mikhail Khodorkovsky on charges of fraud and tax evasion has put Russia back in the forefront of US media attention. But is the story being reported the full, or essential, on... Read More...

Colombia and Human Rights

Discusses volatile human rights situation in Colombia and conditional U.S. aid flowing there. (The Nation, 11/6/2003) Read More...

Time for Ottawa to act

Amnesty calls on Canadians to airlift African refugees to Canada, as they did with Kosovars. By Alex Neve. (Toronto Star, 7/10/2003) Read More...

Amnesty International

Leading human rights organization. Read More...

Institute for War and Peace Reporting

An international media development charity, IWPR is led by senior journalists and peace researchers, with staff drawn from established media such as the BBC, The Guardian and Reuters. Read More...

Arab Association for Human Rights

HRA works to promote and protect the political, civil, economic, and cultural rights of the Palestinian Arab minority in Israel from an international human rights perspective. Read More...

B'Tselem

The Israeli Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories endeavors to document and educate the Israeli public and policymakers about human rights violations in the Occupied Territories, combat ... Read More...

European Court of Human Rights