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The World: Ripper freedom bid
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YORKSHIRE Ripper Peter Sutcliffe is making a legal bid for
freedom by claiming his human rights have been breached. The 61-
year-old's lawyer will argue...
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Finger-pointing is no help for human rights
China Daily
; There's a sad truth about human rights in the world today. Fifty- seven years after the United Nations General Assembly adopted and proclaimed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, countries' gauges of and approaches to those rights appear far from universal. UN High Commissioner for Human
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THE HISTORY OF HUMAN RIGHTS: From Ancient Times to Globalization
International Journal
; THE HISTORY OF HUMAN RIGHTS From Ancient Times to Globalization Micheline R. Ishay Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004. x, 45opp, US$6o.oo cloth (ISBN 0-520-23496-0), US$24-95 paper (ISBN 0-520-23497-9) In this comprehensive and sweeping history of human rights, Micheline R. Ishay embeds
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The History of Human Rights: From Ancient Times to the Globalization Era.(Book review)
Canadian Journal of History
; The History of Human Rights: From Ancient Times to the Globalization Era, by Micheline R. Ishay. Berkeley, University of California Press, 2004. ix, 450 pp. $60.00 US (cloth), $24.95 US (paper). There are no universal ethics, begins Micheline Ishay her History of Human Rights, only to argue over
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Human rights can be manifested differently
China Daily
; A unique outlook on human rights has taken shape in China, the largest developing country in the world. It is founded on the basis of the country's own experience in human rights development over the last two decades since embarking on the road of reform and opening up in the late 1970s. China has
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Turn attention to true human rights abusers
China Daily
; Several recent cases of human rights abuses that took place prior to yesterday's opening session of the United Nations Human Rights Council raise questions about how the agenda will be set for this new UN body. First and foremost are the simultaneous suicides of three detainees at the US military
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The measurement and structure of human rights attitudes.
The Journal of Social Psychology
; The concept of human rights as rights of the individual is a relatively new concept within the history of humankind, having been first articulated during the demise of feudalism, when the breaking of the bond between the individual and the land allowed for the possibility of individual freedom
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Human rights and the politics of victimhood.(Debate)
Ethics & International Affairs
; In the lexicon of rights, the concept of human rights can play a wide variety of roles. Human rights can be defined as substantive natural rights that transcend politics and culture or as the rights that underlie political and cultural differences. They can be defined narrowly as rights that could
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"Shooting into the Dark": Toward a Pragmatic Theory of Human Rights (Activism)
Texas International Law Journal
; I. UNEASY TIMES: HUMAN RIGHTS BETWEEN SCEPTICISM AND COUNTERTERRORISM After the seeming triumph of human rights discourse in the 1990s, including the unprecedented expansion of international and national human rights instruments and the apparent emergence of a global cosmopolitan super-culture
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Human rights in a post-Cold War world.
National Forum
; The idea of human rights is one of the most appealing contributions of Western civilization. Rooted in some aspects of Greco-Roman culture, developed by the Enlightenment philosophes, implemented on a grand scale following the American--and less securely the French--revolutions, the abstract
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Human rights.(Think Again)
Foreign Policy
; The concept of human rights is the mother's milk of the international community. Problem is, these days human rights come in more flavors than coffee or soft drinks. Would you like the Asian, Islamic, indigenous, economic, European, or U.S. version? And how would you like your human rights served:
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