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Access to a Traveller community is blocked as a result of the "Anti-Trespass" legislation passed by the Irish government in 2002. Photo courtesy of the Traveller Visibility Group.

APR 22, 2005 Article

Human Rights Dialogue (1994–2005): Series 2 No. 12 (Spring 2005): Cultural Rights: Section 2: Women's Rights As Cultural Rights: The Case Of The Irish Travellers

Traveller women in Ireland are at the forefront of efforts to promote the cultural rights of their people.

APR 22, 2005 Article

Human Rights Dialogue (1994–2005): Series 2 No. 12 (Spring 2005): Cultural Rights: Section 1: The Stolen Generation: Aboriginal Children In Australia

The Australian government's policy to eradicate Aboriginal culture constitutes a clear-cut violation of the group's cultural rights.

With limited resources, Guarani students paper a village school's adobe walls with writing in Guarani and Spanish.

APR 22, 2005 Article

Human Rights Dialogue (1994–2005): Series 2 No. 12 (Spring 2005): Cultural Rights: Section 1: Language Rights And Guarani Renaissance In Bolivia

Guarani claim the right to native language schooling not just to reproduce their distinct identity, but also to engage in a pluralistic society as equals.

An indigenous forest, like the Mukogodo, in the Aberdare mountains of Kenya.

APR 22, 2005 Article

Human Rights Dialogue (1994–2005): Series 2 No. 12 (Spring 2005): Cultural Rights: Section 1: "This Forest Is Ours"

The cultural survival of the Yiaaku people in the Mukogodo forest of Kenya depends upon preserving their intimate relationship with the forest. The Yiaaku want ...

APR 22, 2005 Article

Human Rights Dialogue (1994–2005): Series 2 No. 12 (Spring 2005): Cultural Rights: Section 1: Rethinking Cultural Genocide Under International Law

Cultural genocide is a unique wrong that should be recognized independently and that rises to the level of meriting individual criminal responsibility. If the highest ...

MAR 28, 2005 Article

The Rockefeller Foundation in Sardinia: Pesticide Politics in the Struggle Against Malaria

By most accounts within and beyond Italy today, the Rockefeller Foundation freed Sardinia of malaria, catalyzing the island's subsequent economic miracle. Yet malaria is an ...

MAR 28, 2005 Article

The Ethical Limits to Preventive War

The purpose of this research is to examine if there is in fact a general democratic anti-preventive war norm, to what extent this norm might ...

Rwanda to Darfur

MAR 18, 2005 Article

Rwanda to Darfur

"Are all humans human, or are some more human than others?" asks Roméo Dallaire.

MAR 8, 2005 Article

America and the World: Ethical Dimensions to Power

A discussion between Joel H. Rosenthal, Michael J. Smith, William F. Felice, and Donald Eastman that took place March 8, 2005. It was the third in a ...

JAN 26, 2005 Article

Accountability: How to Treat Unlawful Combatants

If I were giving President Bush advice for his second term, I would argue that the new administration ought to establish an accountability mechanism–a ...