Results for “Human Rights Watch”

…ch changes. Elaraby: I too have my doubts there. Nevertheless, we still have to try, and we have to take seriously the human rights established by the UN, which all countries in the League have recognized. SPIEGEL: How does Saudi Arabia's foreign minister explain that his count...

…characteristics are likely to emerge, and in what ways they are or are not optimal. 4) Is there a fundamental theory of human societies that's analogous to Darwin's theory in biology? Can that framework be as well supported by evidence and as simple as natural selection in biolog...

… a commitment from Nikos Anastasiades to work for a deal “as soon as possible.” In view of the latest European Court of Human Rights and these plain realities, can that be possible anytime soon? Article 6. The National Interest Stars Are Aligned for a Solution in Cyprus Ozdil...

18 a distorting effect on the global economy. The president has made a few cautious statements on China's human rights record but came under criticism for delaying a White House meeting with the Dalai Lama. This year, the administration confirmed a $5.8 billion package of arms s...

…o be used, as Kant intoned in his second formulation of the categorical impera- tive: “Act in such a way that you treat humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of any other, never merely as a means to an end, but always at the same time as an end” (Kant, 1997). Cons...

…ment, we don’t necessarily know the values we have and we haven’t necessarily learned them consciously. We should value human life over property but whether we do or not we will find out only if the situation arises. It is tempting to try to teach values but this actually is done...

…or they break the law (Sam Waksal, Martha Stewart.) You don't tend to get to the top by being the world's most balanced human being. Even the folksy Warren Buffett didn't quite manage a normal life—whatever that is. He had a second "wife" for many years whose existence he has bee...

Moral and Psychological Implications of Shakespeare’s Tragedies; Ethics and Tactics in the Trial of Criminal Cases; Human Rights; Terrorism and the Law; Probabilities and the Law; a Comparative Analysis of Talmud and Common Law; Wikileaks and the First Amendment; the Arab Israeli...

but the vast majority of the world’s population has no such legal protection. Human rights are not limited by geographic or political borders. They apply

why not? It had been founded in the wake of the allied victory over Nazism by nations—mostly democracies—that had been on the right side of the war against Germany

“In practice you can do a lot to implement human rights in this generation but in teaching you can both help this generation and help plant the seeds for progress later on.”

several years after he left the Soviet Union. Since he had been a sometimes threatened advocate of human rights in Moscow

…0s and filed briefs on behalf of dissidents Refusenicks and others. I have written extensively about this aspect of my human rights work elsewhere 98 and will not repeat it here. Suffice it to say that my unwillingness to limit my advocacy only to Jewish Refusenicks in the Sov...

…d been on the forefront of opposing Apartheid and I was anxious to lend support to these efforts by delivering a strong human rights message. When I appeared at the South African consulate in Boston to receive my Visa

the national vice-president of the guild. After learning that the guild had decided to send an observer to a trial of an alleged terrorist in Israel