Articles
Introduction: Human Rights Litigation: Promise v. Perils
04/06/00
This issue of Human Rights Dialogue examines human rights litigation as one aspect of the “human rights box.” It also seeks to investigate ways of overcoming barriers to greater participation in the human rights movement.
Representation in Human Rights Litigation
04/06/00
For human rights litigation to meet its potential as a means of political expression and community mobilization for human rights victims depends, in part, on the extra judicial skills of the lawyers who represent them.
Author(s):
Benedict Kingsbury
The Story from the Oil Patch: The Under-Represented in Aguinda v. Texaco
04/06/00
The Aguinda v. Texaco lawsuit and its impact on the people fo the remote Amazon region in Ecuador has provided an opportunity to make the litigation responsive to the peoples whose rights are being violated and to sow the seeds of an enduring human rights legacy in the region.
Author(s):
Judith Kimerling
Waiting for Justice in the Marcos Litigation
04/06/00
The jury issued a guilty verdict against Ferdinand Marcos for the human rights crimes of forced disappearance, summary execution, and torture of some 10,000 Filipinos. But the litigation itself demonstrates that human rights law and international jurisdiction need strengthening.
Author(s):
Ramon C. Casiple
An Incomplete Victory at Ok Tedi
04/06/00
As the Ok Tedi case sadly demonstrates, policy reforms and legal precedents
do not necessarily translate into improved conditions for the peoples whose
rights have been violated.
Author(s):
Stuart Kirsch
What Does "International Justice" Look Like in Post-Genocide Rwanda?
04/06/00
"The Tribunal can make a difference for the future of human rights in Rwanda by exposing the truth of the genocide: It was not a result of ancient, tribal hatred, but rather a carefully planned exploitation of ethnic differences by rulers seeking to hold onto their power."
Author(s):
Aloysius Habimana
The Meaning of a Legal Victory in the Ecuadorian Amazon
04/06/00
Tamara Jezic and Chris Jochnickv try to find the meaning of a legal victory in the case of Arco Oriente and towns of Shuar and Achuar in terms of expliotation of oil, and wheter it was effective or not.
Author(s):
Tamara Jezic,
Chris Jochnick
Big Oil in Louisiana and a Community's Bottom Line
04/06/00
"Everyone was sick–sore throats, burning eyes, headaches, dizziness, nausea, diarrhea. Convoys of trucks were bringing in waste daily, and the smell was everywhere. In March 1994 we decided that it was time we stood together and fought for our lives."
Author(s):
Clarice Friloux
Resisting Litigation in Umm El-Fahem
04/06/00
Several months after the Israeli Defense Forces informed residents of Umm El-Fahem that some of their lands were to become a military firing range, the town’s mayor asked our group, the Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel, to file a petition to the Supreme Court of Israel.
Author(s):
Samera Esmeir
Caught in the Claws of the Rich: The Struggle of the Mapalad Farmers
04/06/00
Even with legal knowledge and public support, the law is a double-edged sword: It protects the interests of the poor and implements reforms, but it also preserves the interests of the elite. How can the interests of the poor be advanced if the legal system is caught in the claws of the rich?
Author(s):
Josel Gonzales,
Kaka Bag-ao and Azon Gaite-Llanderal
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