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Has Multiculturalism Had Its Day?
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Has Multiculturalism Had Its Day? Multicultural Odysseys: Navigating the New International Politics of Diversity Will Kymlicka Oxford University Press 374 pages, hardcover ISBN 9780199280407
A leading British critic finds Canada's approach outdated.
Writing in the latest issue of Londonbased Prospect (the magazine I edit), a leading German Social Democrat, Ernst Hillebrand, has this to say about multiculturalism in Europe: "The left's answer to a significant rise in European imm...
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National Human Rights Institutions in the Middle East
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; Ten states in the Middle East have created or plan to establish "national human rights institutions" to implement internationally recognized norms. This article offers a systematic survey of this new but unexplored terrain, examining issues of institutional creation, design, and impact in the
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; This disquisition addresses concisely the issues of human rights in Africa within the context of some general theories of human rights. It also explores the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and the famous African [Banjul] Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights of 1981 and 1986. It finds
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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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Elements of a Theory of Human Rights
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Human rights and globalization: is the shrinking world expanding rights?(The Globalization of Human Rights)(Globalization and Human Rights)(Book review)
Human Rights & Human Welfare
; ... Human Rights: A Curious Grapevine. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998. Larson, Eugenie. Overcoming the Digital Divide, Rights News. Columbia University, Center For the Study of Human Rights. 24:1 (Fall 2002). Mae, Rita; Bayes, Jane H.; Hawkesworth, Mary; and ...
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International Journal
; Globalization theory is posing a new challenge to the view that human rights are universal in principle and ought to be so in practice. The challenge comes from some of its analyses of global change which reinforce the view that human rights are an important part of the 'culture wars,' a Western
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Voluntary or Mandatory: That is (Not) the Question*: Linking Corporate Citizenship to Human Rights Obligations for Business
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; Human rights have traditionally been considered a domain of governments. The ongoing economic globalization, however, has rendered this state-centered view increasingly inadequate. In this contribution we will argue that also the powerful transnational corporations must bear more and more direct
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; ... seem unlikely. See, E Timor rights court installed , in http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/asia-pacific/ (Thursday 31 January ... Says Human Rights Are Universal , in http://www.malaysiakini.com/News/2001/11/2001110822414.php3?print=1; Prema Devaraj, SUHAKAM Not ...
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Congressional Testimony
; Congressional Testimony 04-19-2005 Statement of Joseph Loconte William E. Simon Fellow, Religion and a Free Society The Heritage Foundation Committee on House International Relations Subcommittee on Africa, Global Human Rights and International Operations April 19, 2005 My name is Joseph Loconte.
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