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PRESIDENT CLINTON SIGNED AN EXECUTIVE ORDER THAT GRANTED MOST-FAVORED-NATION TRADE STATUS TO CHINA WITHOUT RESTRICTIONS FOR ANOTHER YEAR BUT CONDITIONED FURTHER RENEWAL ON SEVERAL HUMAN RIGHTS ISSUES. THIS ARTICLE ARGUES THAT THE BROAD WORDING OF THE CONDITIONS AND THE INCREASINGLY MIXED SIGNALS PROJECTED BY THE ADMINISTRATION'S ENHANCED ENGAGEMENT POLICY HAVE ENCOURAGED THE CHINESE LEADERSHIP TO ACT AS IF IT CAN GET AWAY WITH DOING NOTHING. IT SUGGESTS THAT WASHINGTON MUST PRESS THE CORPORATE COMMUNITY TO ACT ON ITS CLAIM THAT BUSINESS CAN BE A POSITIVE FORCE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS.

For the first time in one collected volume, mainstream and critical human rights scholars together examine the empirical and normative debates around the future of human rights. They ask what makes human rights effective, what strategies will enhance the chances of compliance, what blocks progress, and whether the hope for human rights is entirely misplaced in a rapidly transforming world. Human Rights Futures sees the world as at a crucial juncture. The project for globalizing rights will either continue to be embedded or will fall backward into a maelstrom of nationalist backlash, religious resurgence and faltering Western power. Each chapter talks directly to the others in an interactive dialogue, providing a theoretical and methodological framework for a clear research agenda for the next decade. Scholars, graduate students and practitioners of political science, history, sociology, law and development will find much to both challenge and provoke them in this innovative book.

This book is the first to examine sexual orientation from the viewpoint of international human rights law. It does not simply `create' a platform of rights and argue for their `introduction' in human rights law. Rather, it examines how extant international norms should be construed to include rights against discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, including rights of privacy, equality, speech, expression, and association. It raises questions of cultural relativism, religious faith, social science, and legal theory. It will be of interest to international jurists, human rights organizations, gay rights organizations, constitutional scholars, and anyone interested in expanding the role of international human rights law as a formidable adversary of persecution and discrimination throughout the world

Operationalizing human rights at the local level -- "Opinion doctors" and "can openers" : Denmark -- "The toughest job I ever had" : Northern Ireland -- Counting in threes : Bosnia-Herzegovina -- When less is more : the Czech Republic -- Straddling Checkpoint Charlie : Germany

Discusses ways for the international human rights movement to effectively document and disseminate information on abuses; some focus on developing a more populist approach; 4 articles. Topics include the "Witness Program" to provide video cameras to activists, e-mail networks, impact of atrocity images and other tactics, use of television, how to develop issues which are relevant to broad audiences and techniques with popular appeal, and other ideas.

Das Human Rights Watch Arms Project untersucht in diesem Beitrag, wer die Waffenlieferanten der beiden Parteien im ruandischen Bürgerkrieg von 1990-1993 waren, wer den Waffenhandel finanzierte und welche Menschenrechtsverletzungen von beiden Seiten (der Regierungsarmee und der FPR) verübt wurden. Es ist Human Rights Watch gelungen, in den Besitz von Dokumenten zu gelangen, die den Waffenhandel zwischen Uganda und den Rebellen (FPR) sowie zwischen der ehemaligen Regierung Ruandas und Ägypten, Frankreich und Südafrika belegen können. Diese Dokumente sind im Anhang abgedruckt. Darüber hinaus enthält der Beitrag einen historischen Rückblick auf den Konflikt der beiden Volksgruppen Hutu und Tutsi, schildert die Eskalation im Frühjahr 1993 und stellt Forderungen an die internationalen Friedenstruppen, die Ende 1993 stationiert wurden. (DÜI-Spl)

Lately there have been works that show that Kant bases human rights on innate freedom as the only innate right that man has by virtue of his humanity. However, innate freedom cannot justify a theory of human rights because it is only an innate right over my inner self that allows for empirical possession, and although a human right is inalienable, it must be renounced in order to enter the world; Moreover, the four analytical derivations of innate freedom generate consequences that are incompatible with a human rights doctrine, for as human rights refer to all, innate equality and innate independence apply to a limited number of people; Finally, there is a differentiation in the interpretation of humanity's formula in law and ethics, because, subjectively, treating humanity as an end requires the agent to consider that the end of humanity is the motive of his action in ethics, but in law it is only required that its external behavior be in accordance with the end of humanity, and objectively, in law, treating humanity as an end produces criminal law contrary to human rights and the law of humanity requires that innate integrity be suspended during the period of condemnation, furthermore, this differentiation in the idea of ​​humanity becomes explicit in innate imprehensibility, for in ethics lie is the greatest violation of the duty of humanity in his person, but in law only violates the right of humanity if it causes harm to others.