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Restricted Mobility and the Threat to Health 05/06/01
Stephania Hansel and Jihad Mashal explain how Israel's restriction of mobility in the Occupied Territories has endangered a multitude of other rights.
Author(s): Stephanie Hansel, Jihad Mashal

Balancing Population Concerns with Women's Rights 05/06/01
India's population policy has adopted a human rights language. But, as Rachel Kumar explains, women's reproductive rights are still in danger
Author(s): Rachel Kumar

The Limits of Human Rights in Vietnam 05/06/01
While human rights are not unheard of in Vietnam, Nguyen Thi Minh Chau and Julie Yoder explain, they are of limited use in addressing the plight of the disabled.
Author(s): Nguyen Thi Minh Chau and Julie Yoder

Protecting the Mentally Disabled 05/06/01
Albania's treatment of the mentally disabled needs improvement. Harvey Weinstein, Ira Burnim, and Robert Okin tell how a human rights framework can help.
Author(s): Harvey Weinstein, Ira Burnim, Robert Okin

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.