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Women, Violence, and the Reinvolvement of the U.S. Military in the Philippines 11/19/03
The Visiting Forces Agreement, allowing U.S. military personnel access in 22 ports and bases, marked a return to the abuses that women’s rights activists had long struggled against, including the trafficking of Filipinas and their global devaluation as low-paid workers and servile brides.
Author(s): Jane A. Margold

Unexpected New Alliances for Addressing Military Involvement and Sexual Exploitation 11/20/03
Jennifer Butler responds to Jane Margold.
Author(s): Jennifer Butler

Beyond Name and Blame 01/15/04
Why do Cuthbert and her colleagues find that “doing human rights work in the United States presents formidable challenges”? Can it be as simple as American exceptionalism? What can it mean to use human rights to end violence against women?
Author(s): Mindy Roseman

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.