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SECTION 2 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN RIGHTS AND ENVIRONMENTALISM

When Parks and People Collide 04/23/04
In much of Africa, write Peter G. Veit and Catherine Benson, efforts to safeguard wildlife have violated human rights.
Author(s): Peter G. Veit, Catherine Benson

Workers' Rights and Pollution Control in Delhi 04/23/04
According to Kelly D. Alley and Daniel Meadows, India's judicial efforts to protect the "right to life" by shutting down and relocating polluting industries in Delhi have marginalized, displaced, or dispossessed thousands of the city's working poor.
Author(s): Kelly D. Alley, Daniel Meadows

Environmental Rights vs. Cultural Rights 04/23/04
As Alison Dundes Renteln demonstrates, protecting cultural rights and endangered species requires a delicate balancing act.
Author(s): Alison Dundes Renteln

Commentary on "The conflict between rights and environmentalism" 04/26/04
The essays in this section vividly illustrate that certain specific efforts to protect the environment from the “bio-degenerative consequences of human action” can run the risk of colliding with human rights norms.
Author(s): Joanne Bauer

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.