Articles on Human Rights

Articles on Human Rights

Human Rights Watch World Report 2000

The United States and the "Challenge of Relativity"
By Noam Chomsky
This essay will appear in a collection assembled by Tony Evans, dealing with the 50th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of the Rights of Man.

Whose World Order: Conflicting Visions
By Noam Chomsky
A speech delivered by Noam Chomsky, Sept. 22, 1998, at the University of Calgary

Human development and human rights mutually essential (C.Raghavan/SUNS)
In a world of widespread want and growing national and international inequalities, an inclusive and fair system of governance is needed at both domestic and global levels for the realization of human rights and human development, according to the UNDP’s Human Development Report 2000.

Universal Declaration of Human Rights On December 10, 1948 the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted and proclaimed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Following this historic act the Assembly called upon all Member countries to publicize the text of the Declaration and "to cause it to be disseminated, displayed, read and expounded principally in schools and other educational institutions, without distinction based on the political status of countries or territories."

Working paper submitted by J. Oloka-Onyango in accordance
with Sub-Commission decision 1998/104
Comprehensive examination of thematic issues relating to the elemination of racial discrimination

Globalization in the context of increased incidents of racism, racial discrimination and xenophobia

J. Oloka-Onyango
THE REALIZATION OF ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL RIGHTS

Human rights as the primary objective of international
trade, investment and finance policy and practice

Human Rights Conventions: Summaries

Human Rights, Trade and Investment

Developing Sustainable Human Rights Communities

Shulamith Koenig:
Human Rights Education, Human Rights Culture and the Community of Non-Governmental Organizations: The Birth of a Political Ideology for the Twenty-First Century

Shulamith Koenig:
EMBRACING WOMEN AS FULL OWNERS OF HUMAN RIGHTS

Human Rights Education:
A Development Strategy Toward Human Security

The Osaka Declaration:
Declaration of the International Conference on Human Rights Education in the Asia Pacific Region.

Women to Lead the Human Rights Revolution
An address by Shulamith Koenig given at a post-Beijing conference in Vienna

Towards A Pedagogy Of Human Rights Education
A declaration adopted at the International Consultation on the Pedagogical Foundations of Human Rights Education, La Catalina, Costa Rica, 22-26 July, 1996.

Human Rights Have Wings: A Note for Teachers
Once we recognize that all of us -- teachers, students and everyone else -- have human rights, then it should become clear that the object of human rights education is not to sow the seeds of social unrest. An essay specially written by Richard Pierre Claude for PDHRE.

Upendra Baxi:

Human Rights Education: The Promise of the Third Millenium_