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The Relevance of Social Problems to International Affairs

The Common Ground 06/05/98
This conference asks three questions: What “social foreign policies” can help resolve problems confronting populations on both sides of the Pacific? How might such an approach enhance human rights foreign policy? How might the U.S. government, private foundations, NGOs, and academics interact to develop these policies?

AGENDA 06/05/98

Why a Social Dimension to Foreign Policy Is Vital to U.S.-East Asia Relations 06/05/98
Mark Malloch Brown stresses the importance of a social awareness when the U.S. and East Asian countries are involved in foreign policy affairs in order to strengthen their relationship with one another.
Author(s): Mark Malloch Brown

Bringing Lessons Home: A Perspective from USAID 06/05/98
Ann Van Dusen provides a USAID perspective on foriegn assistance in East Asia while also dealing with the perception back in the U.S. about foreign assistance programs.
Author(s): Ann Van Dusen

Challenges of Globalization 06/05/98
John W. Sewell outlines the 4 basic challenges of globalization and its implications for civil society, for governments and for multinational institutions.
Author(s): John W. Sewell

A "Shopping List" for the Future Agenda for Globalization 06/05/98
Vitit Muntarbhorn creates a "shopping list" for future globalization which includes: anti-poverty measures, equity, FDI, debt relief, international aid, global trade environment, human rights, social investment, partnership building, and human development.
Author(s): Vitit Muntarbhorn

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.

The entire publication is online, or you may purchase individual print copies.

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.