Recent Articles
JAN 1, 2004 • Article
Feature Articles from Inprint Newsletter (2001–2004): Promoting Democracy in a Divided World
Democracies survive if per capita GDP surpasses $6,000, but developing countries have little chance of crossing this threshold. To make democracy work in such contexts, ...
DEC 19, 2003 • Article
Feature Articles from Inprint Newsletter (2001–2004): Response to “Searching for a New Iraqi Identity”
Elizabeth Cole's editorial shows a fundamental misunderstanding of the aims of the Iraq Memory Foundation. While she is right in asserting that "deciding on the ...
DEC 8, 2003 • Article
"To Be Read" Book Review Column: David Sloan Wilson, "Darwin's Cathedral"
Religion, I think most of us would say, isn't about much if it isn't about belief in a personal God... Religion is founded on the ...
DEC 3, 2003 • Article
The First Millennium Development Goal
The first MDG and its public celebration among the affluent hides the largest (though not the gravest) crime against humanity ever committed, argues Thomas Pogge ...
NOV 20, 2003 • Article
Human Rights Dialogue (1994–2005): Series 2 No. 10 (Fall 2003): Violence Against Women: Online Exclusives: Unexpected New Alliances for Addressing Military Involvement and Sexual Exploitation
Jennifer Butler responds to Jane Margold.
NOV 19, 2003 • Article
Human Rights Dialogue (1994–2005): Series 2 No. 10 (Fall 2003): Violence Against Women: Online Exclusives: Women, Violence, and the Reinvolvement of the U.S. Military in the Philippines
The Visiting Forces Agreement, allowing U.S. military personnel access in 22 ports and bases, marked a return to the abuses that women’s ...
NOV 5, 2003 • Article
Human Rights Dialogue (1994–2005): Series 2 No. 10 (Fall 2003): Violence Against Women: Articles: Working within Nigeria's Sharia Courts
In the face of Nigeria's expansion of religious laws, as Ayesha Imam explains in an interview with "Dialogue," it is important to work within the ...
NOV 5, 2003 • Article
Human Rights Dialogue (1994–2005): Series 2 No. 10 (Fall 2003): Violence Against Women: Articles: Rights for All in the New South Africa
In an interview with Dialogue, Harper discusses how violence against women in South Africa has been justified under the banners of culture, religion, and the ...
NOV 5, 2003 • Article
Human Rights Dialogue (1994–2005): Series 2 No. 10 (Fall 2003): Violence Against Women: Articles: Refusing to Go Away: Strategies of the Women's Rights Movement
LaShawn R. Jefferson describes how the women’s rights movement put violence against women on the international human rights agenda.