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Introduction: Innovative Human Rights Strategies in East Asia 06/05/97
This issue of Dialogue highlights some of the inspirational approaches and continuing structural challenges to human rights implementation in East Asia.
Author(s): Tonya Cook

A People-Centered Approach to Human Rights 06/05/97
A “people-centered” approach to human rights is arising from the grassroots, making people in struggle the determinative players in human rights standard setting, monitoring, and enforcement.
Author(s): Clarence Dias

Accompanying Fisherfolk in Their Local Struggles for Social Justice and Human Dignity 06/05/97
The right of the fisherfolk to a dignified life as social actors, not passive recipients of government charity, is fulfilled by their participation in the transformation of the development process.
Author(s): Nenita M. Cura

Setting Standards for Indigenous Peoples' Rights: From the Grassroots Up 06/05/97
Jannie Lasimbang goes over the functions of the AIPP, which acts as a regional forum for Asian indigenous groups by enabling them to participate in its conferences, among other things.
Author(s): Jannie Lasimbang

Promoting Local Autonomy in Korea 06/05/97
Kim Dong-Ik retraces the problems local autonomy has had in Korea as well has it's recent revival and development. The Citizen’s Coalition for Economic Justice (CCEJ) has been at the forefront of this effort.
Author(s): Kim Dong-Ik

Popular Demands for Village Elections in Rural China 06/05/97
Amidst popular demands for election in rural China, Lianjiang Li reports on the struggles and reality of democratic promotion in rural villages along with the spread of local autonomy, or lack thereof.
Author(s): Lianjiang Li

Educating for Human Rights: Asian Challenges and Achievements 06/05/97
Richard Pierre Claude examines the role of education in promoting human rights. He cites that NGOs play a bigger role in Asia because of the lack of intergovernmental organizations that promote human rights education.
Author(s): Richard Pierre Claude

Seeking to End Discrimination Through Dowa Education 06/05/97
Non-Japanese are treated as second-class citizens, the indigenous Ainu was forced to assimilate, and gender inequality still exists. Dowa (liberation) education, aims at persuading those who discriminate to stop voluntarily.
Author(s): Yasumasa Hirasawa

Implementing Women's Human Rights in Malaysia 06/05/97
Norani Othman points out the the potential problems and solutions to promoting women's rights in an Islamic society in Malyasia.
Author(s): Norani Othman

Awarding Korean Companies for Social Responsibility 06/05/97
KEJI rewards companies after being evaluated for their ethical performance as large Korean corporations in hopes that, as Chun Byung-Hwa points out, can be used to carry out more effective lobbying and reform movements.
Author(s): Chun Byung-Hwa

Human Rights, Soccer Balls, and Better Business Practices 06/05/97
Reebok has sought a solution that reflects its long-standing commitment to human rights and its own human rights standards by implementing many different programs in Pakistan.
Author(s): Doug Cahn

Interview with Doug Cahn 06/05/97
What are the motivating factors behind Reebok’s Human Rights Production Standards and similar efforts in corporate responsibility? Human Rights Dialogue interviews Doug Cahn about the obstacles and effects of these efforts, so far.

About Human Rights Dialogue

Human Rights Dialogue promotes a global discussion of human rights ideas and practices by presenting firsthand accounts of human rights issues as they arise within specific real-life contexts. In so doing, it helps to clarify the significant and ongoing evolution that is taking place within the human rights movement to make the human rights framework more relevant and effective in addressing the social, economic, and political challenges of the twenty-first century.

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Series One (1993–1998)examines all sides of the Asian values debate—the argument that Asian cultural values imply different human rights standards and priorities from those in the West.

Series Two(2000–2005)addresses the problem of the “human rights box”—the constraints that have enabled the human rights framework to gain currency among elites while limiting its advance among the most vulnerable. Specifically, the essays aim to locate the barriers to greater public legitimacy of human rights and to demonstrate how those barriers can be overcome.