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The title of this essay is rather ambitious and the space available is hardly sufficient to examine two words of almost limitless expanse—"human rights"—whether standing alone or in tandem. This requires that I begin with (and remained disciplined by) what a teacher of mine, Leo Strauss, called "low facts." My low facts are these: We call ourselves humans because we have certain characteristics that define our nature. We are social and political animals, as Aristotle noted, and possess attributes not shared by other animals. The ancients noted this, of course, when they defined our principal behavioral and cognitive distinction from the rest of the natural world as the faculty of speech. The Greek word for this,logos, means much more than speech, as it connoteswordandreasonand, in the more common understanding, talking and writing, praising and criticizing, persuading and reading. While other animals communicate by making sounds of attraction or warning, leaving smells, and so on, none read newspapers, make speeches, publish their memoirs, or write poetry.

Gathers the results of a number of public opinion surveys on human rights, including the salience of human rights in foreign policy and the situation in the Soviet Union and Korea. Also reports on the coverage of human rights in newspapers. (CP)

Discusses legislation, human rights in relation to security, implementation of the European Convention on Human Rights, the European Parliament, multiculturalism, minority rights, and the right to life; 10 articles.

Media coverage of human rights and human rights as a foreign policy issue; data compiled from various polls of American opinion, 1975-86.

Amnesty International, founded in 1961, had its work in Africa in the 1960s dominated by appeals on behalf of Africans opposing colonial rule. Now in the 1990s, the organisation mainly campaigns against human rights violations committed by military regimes and one‐party states.

Titelgeschichte des Sudanow über die gegenwärtige Debatte über die Menschenrechte weltweit. Abgedruckt sind folgende Beiträge: Religion, Recht und Gesellschaft - die islamische Scharia und der Status der Nichtmuslime, von Dr. Ghazi Salahudin Atabani, dem Minister for Political Affairs at the Presidency in Sudan; Human Rights, The Vienna Conference, June, 1993; die "Bangkok Declaration" des Regionaltreffens für Asien und den Pazifik vom 29. März bis 2. April 1993; eine Untersuchung der UNO-Politik im Schatten der US-Politik; die islamische Perspektive der Menschenrechte - Gleichheit und Gerechtigkeit im Islam. (DÜI-Sdt)

A report outlines the repressive practices of the Saddam Hussein regime in Iraq with respect to the violations of the integrity of the person & civil liberties; denial of political rights & international & nongovernmental investigations of alleged human rights violations; discrimination of women, children, the disabled, & ethnic minorities; & worker's rights. J. Zendejas

Human Rights Watch is the largest U.S.-based independent human rights organization. It conducts regular, systematic investigations of human rights abuses in some seventy countries around the world. Human Rights Watch (HRW) includes five divisions, covering Africa, the Americas, Asia, the Middle East, and the signatories of the Helsinki accords, and has four thematic projects: the Arms Project, the Women's Rights Project, the Children's Rights Project, and the Free Expression Project. HRW maintains offices in New York, Washington, Los Angeles, London, Brussels, Moscow, Rio de Janeiro, Dushanbe, and Hong Kong. Human Rights Watch is a nongovernmental organization, supported by contributions from private individuals and foundations worldwide. It accepts no government funds.