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Exploring Commonality

The Housing Issue: Parallels in the United States and East Asia 06/05/98
Shyama Venkateswar examines the American and Asian perspective on what were some of the barriers to adequate housing for citizens on both sides of the Pacific.
Author(s): Shyama Venkateswar

Housing in the Philippines 06/05/98
Shyama Venkateswar examines the American and Asian perspective on what were some of the barriers to adequate housing for citizens on both sides of the Pacific.
Author(s): Corazon Soliman, Shyama Venkateswar

Housing in the United States 06/05/98
Harold O. Wilson covers the development work of community development corporations (CDCs) in the U.S. Local CDCs, with the help from non-profit intermediaries have revitalized urban and rural communities across the country.
Author(s): Harold O. Wilson

On International NGO Cooperation: A View from the American Grassroots 06/05/98
Madelyn Hoffman discovered that a great many of the political and social concerns of Asians are shared by Americans who work diligently at the grassroots level to see that the government and corporations address the needs of low to moderate-income communities.
Author(s): Madelyn Hoffman

Developing a "Social Foreign Policy" for the Lived Realities of Migrant Workers 06/05/98
Irene Fernandez recognizes that economic, social, and cultural rights receive less attention in the international community than do civil and political rights, hence a "social foreign policy' needs to be developed.
Author(s): Irene Fernandez

Addressing the Plight of Migrant Workers in the United States and Asia: Opportunities and Challenges in Applying Human Rights Standards 06/05/98
In order to protect international migrant workers in the midst of the tumultuous and erratic markets in which they seek employment and labor, nongovernmental organizations and states should apply international human rights standards.
Author(s): Josh DeWind

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.