International Affairs Forum

Fri. December 14, 2018

Social Media: Humanitarian/Social

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The Politics of AIDS: Engaging Conservative Activists

American evangelicals have put the fight against AIDS on Washington's map, even while clashing with other activists over strategy. Now all must unite behind a comprehensive approach stressing effectiv... Read More...

A Duty to Prevent

The international community has a duty to prevent security disasters as well as humanitarian ones -- even at the price of violating sovereignty. By Lee Feinstein and Anne-Marie Slaughter. (Foreign Af... Read More...

An empty sort of freedom

Saddam was no defender of women, but they have faced new miseries and more violence since he fell... (Guardian, 3/8/2004) Read More...

A new tone on rights in China?

Merle Goldman sees that the pending constitutional amendment, while flawed, is a positive step towards greater human rights in China. (Boston Globe, 3/8/2004) Read More...

Denying Haiti's Refugees

Supports view that U.S. should provide protection to Haitian asylum-seekers in the same way the United States did a few years back for refugees from Kosovo. By Bill Frelick. (Washington Post, 3/6/2004... Read More...

The New American Century

New Imperialism is already upon us. It's a remodeled, streamlined version of what we once knew. For the first time in history, a single empire with an arsenal of weapons that could obliterate the worl... Read More...

Jobs Americans Won't Do

Bush has defended illegal immigration amnesty on the grouns that foreign workers are needed to perform work Americans refuse to do, but is this a valid point to make? By Mark Krikorian. (Center for Im... Read More...

U.N. Decries Cuba Over Dissident Arrests

U.N. Human Rights Comission classifies the Cuban government's imprisonment of 75 dissidents as an "unprecedented wave of repression." By Naomi Koppel. (Cubanet, 02/17/2004) Read More...

Exodus within Borders: The Uprooted who Never Left Home

Millions flee persecution and war within their borders. The international community should be ready to act when states fail to protect their own. By Roberta Cohen and Francis M. Deng. (Foreign Affair... Read More...

Out-of-Control Immigration

High immigration in the U.S. is creating imbalances in education, income distribution, employment, and welfare demands. An economic slump will mean crisis. Congress and the White House need to cut bac... Read More...

Roma Rights, Roma Wrongs

Enforcement of EU human rights law and a growth in political consciousness may finally end the discrimination that the Roma have suffered for centuries. But already the backlash has begun. By James A.... Read More...

Terrorism and Restrictionism: Their Impact on European Immigration Policies

A talk by Patrick Weil with comments by Mark Krikorian (Nixon Center, 5/8/2003) Read More...

Rwanda in Retrospect

Given the genocide in Rwanda's terrifying pace, even a major mission by the West could have saved only a fraction of the ultimate victims. Herewith a reassessment of the limits of intervention. By Ala... Read More...

EU membership could help stabilize Turkey

By Sam Wilkin and Marvin Zonis (Boston Globe, 11/23/2003) Read More...

America Slams the Door (On Its Foot): Washington's Destructive New Visa Policies

Harsh new restrictions on Muslim visitors have told potential friends that the United States no longer wants them. Goodwill is being squandered; Americans will pay. By John N. Paden and Peter W. Singe... Read More...

Foreign Assistance in an Aging World

Chronic ailments such as diabetes and heart disease will become far more widespread, placing great strain on health care budgets in developing countries. The focus of aid should change accordingly. By... Read More...

How U.N. Conventions On Women's and Children's Rights Undermine Family, Religion, and Sovereignty

(Heritage Foundation, 2/5/2001) Read More...

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...

Rescuing the Refugees

The world's focus in Afghanistan is shifting from waging war to picking up the pieces and helping the long-suffering Afghan people. But can action follow words? By Arthur C. Helton(Foreign Affairs, 3/... 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...

Women's Vital Voices: The Costs of Exclusion in Eastern Europe

Post-communism has been bad for women in Eastern Europe: their representation, employment, and safety have suffered. America must support women leaders and entrepreneurs for the transition to democrac... 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...

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