Julie Mertus' highly acclaimed text continues to be the only completely up-to-date comprehensive yet succinct guide to the United Nations human rights system. Today, virtually all UN bodies and specialized agencies are undertaking efforts to incorporate the promotion or protection of human rights into their programs and activities. "The United ...
In this study of recent Serbian history, the author eschews the "ancient hatreds" explanation for the war in Kosovo. Instead, she looks at how people in power exploited news events and local gossip and enflamed Serbian feelings of victimization. These feelings "legitimized" extreme measures, in the minds of the Serbs. The author is a professor of ...
From the very beginning, US human rights foreign policy has been oriented toward domestic national interests, but as Bait and Switch? concludes, there's something remarkably new and threatening about the American-centrism and exceptionalism in US human rights policy and practices today. Although our era is marked by human rights rhetoric, human ...
A collection of personal narratives - essays, letters and poems - from refugees fleeing Bosnia. In this text contributors from all ethnic groups and every region of Bosnia and Croatia describe their loss of community, memories of those left behind, and homes now occupied by neighbours.
Women have long played important roles in war, humanitarian crises and post-war reconstruction. Not only have they been targets of conflict and assistance, but also survivors and key problem-solvers. Julie Mertus contends that attempts by humanitarian groups to provide assistance and protection will fall short unless they enlist women themselves ...
Among human rights advocates, dominant wisdom holds that the promotion and protection of human rights relies not on international efforts, but on domestic action. International institutions may capture news headlines, but it is national groups that effectively shape local expectations and ultimately make human rights matter. Through a series of ...
The relationship between human rights and conflict is dynamic, complex, and powerful, constantly shaping and reshaping the course of both peace and war. Yet, despite its importance, our understanding of this relationship has long been fragmentary, chiefly because three different schools of thought-human rights, conflict resolution, and ...
This handbook on women's human rights is an integrated set of fourteen teaching and learning units. Together, they are designed to identify key issues in women's human rights, define concepts, outline different methodologies for achieving women's human rights, and offer a wide range of activities to facilitate teaching, learning, and discussion of ...
It has become routine for the US government to invoke human rights to justify its foreign policy decisions and military ventures. But this human rights talk has not been supported by a human rights walk. Policy makers consistently apply a double standard for human rights norms: one the rest of the world must observe, but which the US can safely ...
Women have long played important roles in war, humanitarian crises and post-war reconstruction. Not only have they been targets of conflict and assistance, but also survivors and key problem-solvers. Julie Mertus contends that attempts by humanitarian groups to provide assistance and protection will fall short unless they enlist women themselves ...
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