Peace, justice, and freedom : human rights challenges for the new millennium
Print Book, English, ©2000
University of Alberta Press, Edmonton, ©2000
Conference papers and proceedings
xii, 433 pages ; 23 cm
9780888643391, 088864339X
43282693
Message to the International Conference on Universal Rights and Human Values / Aung San Suu Kyi
What comes after conflict and repression? / Desmond M. Tutu
The challenge of the future for human rights / Mary Robinson
Towards a human rights culture / Antonio Lamer
Vision and reality : the Declaration fifty years later / Anne McLellan
Half a century of human rights / David Kilgour
Human rights and foreign policy / Lloyd Axworthy
People before profits : the Ogoni experience and Shell / Owens Wiwa
Globalization and ethical profits / Warren Allmand
The environmental and civil rights movements : their similarities and challenges / Jim Butler
History repeats itself / Wei Jingsheng
Vietnam and human rights : a call for international pressure / Doan Viet Hoat
The case of international trade agreements / J. Edward Broadbent
I am a refugee / Louis Kuol Arop
Refugees and the sanctuary movement / Mary Jo Leddy
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights : fifty years later / David Matas. Protecting those who flee abuse / Anne F. Bayefsky
A village of widows / Cindy Kenny Gilday
The ecological rights of humans / D.W. Schindler
Achieving the right balance : economic, environmental and human development in Syncrude's world / Eric P. Newell
Crimes against humanity and the law / Leslie C. Green
Justice and crimes against humanity / Jules Deschênes
Military sexual slavery : crimes against humanity / Indai Lourdes Sajor
From witness to advocate / Nathaniel Bimba
Human rights defenders in the global village / Roger Clark
Basic human rights : it's time / Anne McGrath
Young people mobilizing on human rights issues / Darren E. Lund
A question of caring and sharing / Huguette Labelle
Recognizing the rights of Indigenous peoples / Juan León
Indigenous internationalism today / Olga Havnen
A global search for justice / Doreen Spence
Human rights, bioethics and disability / Dick Sobsey
The biotechnology era : a story of two lives and two worlds / Solomon R. Benatar. Human rights and genomics / Bartha Maria Knoppers
Women of the millennium / Pamela A. Jefferies
Turning the rhetoric into reality / Michelle Falardeau-Ramsay
The practice of female genital mutilation in Mali : a violation of physical integrity / Fatoumata Siré Diakité
Lesbian and gay rights / Martha A. McCarthy
Sexual orientation and human rights in Europe / Daniel Borrillo
The fragile progress of human rights and sexuality / Svend Robinson
The responsibilities of the state / Rosalie Silberman Abella
Human rights are our inalienable inheritance / M.N. Venkatachaliah
The principles of freedom of expression / Irwin Cotler
Freedom of speech in Israel / Dan Yakir
Rights, limits and dangers of freedom of expression / William Thorsell
The universality of human rights / Maxwell Yalden
The international community and human rights / Lim Kit Siang
Religion, ethnicity, culture and the common standard / Ujjal Dosanjh. UNESCO and human rights / Francine Fournier
Nuclear weapons and the right to peace / Douglas Roche
The need to control conventional weapons / Geoffrey A.H. Pearson
Teaching the public about weapons of mass destruction / Fernando and Susana de Souza Barros
The elusive quest for human rights / Zuhy Sayeed
Beyond the rhetoric / Midge Cuthill
Appendix I: Universal Declaration of Human rights
Appendix II: The Edmonton Resolution
Papers from the conference, Universal rights and human values : a blueprint for peace, justice and freedom, held at the University of Alberta, Nov. 26-28, 1998