The Case for Collective Human Rights: The Reality of Group Suffering

Ethics and International Affairs

Volumn 10, Issue , 1996, Pages 47-61

  Felice, William F ^a  

^a ECKERD COLLEGE   (United States)

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EID: 0010826463     PISSN: 08926794     EISSN: 17477093     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1747-7093.1996.tb00003.x     Document Type: Article

References (38)

1. For a historical review of the development of group rights in international politics, see William F. Felice, Taking Suffering Seriously: The Importance of Collective Human Rights (Albany: State University of New York Press, forthcoming, summer 1996).
2. Barbara Jordan, “Civil Rights, Is It Still a Good Idea?” Remarks upon receiving the Annual International and National Freedom Award from the National Civil Rights Museum, Memphis, September 1992.
3. Jack Donnelly, Universal Human Rights in Theory and Practice (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1989), 12.
4. James W. Nickel, Making Sense of Human Rights (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987), 3–4.
5. Imre Szabo, “Historical Foundations of Human Rights and Subsequent Developments,” in Karel Vasak, ed., The International Dimensions of Human Rights (Westport: Greenwood Press, 1982), 11.
6. Ronald Dworkin, Taking Rights Seriously (Cambridge; Harvard University Press, 1977), 364.
7. See also Joel Feinberg, Rights, Justice, and the Bounds of Liberty (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1980), 155.
8. See, for example, Adamantia Pollis, “Liberal, Socialist, and Third World Perspectives of Human Rights,” in Pollis and Schwab, eds., Toward a Human Rights Framework (New York: Praeger, 1982), 1–2.
9. See also Richard Falk, The End of World Order: Essays on Normative International Relations (New York: Holmes & Meier, 1983), 246
10. Richard Falk, Human Rights and State Sovereignty (New York: Holmes & Meier, 1981), 6.
11. For a discussion of the limited U.S. conception of rights, see Robert Elias, The Politics of Victimization (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986), 193–228.
12. Alan Riding, “Human Rights: The West Gets Some Tough Questions,” New York Times, June 20, 1993.
13. Gillian Triggs, “The Rights of ‘Peoples’ and Individual Rights: Conflict or Harmony?” in James Crawford, ed., The Rights of Peoples (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1988), 156
14. New York Times, December 4, 1994; July 8, 1993 July 8, 1992; and May 12, 1992.
15. See also Manning Marable, The Crisis of Color and Democracy (Monroe LA: Common Courage Press, 1992), 46–48.
16. Ian Brownlie, Basic Documents on Human Rights, 2nd ed. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1981), 137.
17. Morton Halperin, David Scheffer, and Patricia Small, Self-Determination in the New World Order (Washington: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 1992), 57–60.
18. Donna J. Sullivan, “Women's Human Rights and the 1993 World Conference on Human Rights,” American Journal of International Law 88 (January 1994), 155, 157.
19. The World Summit for Social Development in Copenhagen in early March 1995 was a clear demonstration of this hesitancy to implement minimal reforms. See, for example, Michel Chossudovsky, “The Causes of the Social Crisis: Critique of the Declaration and Programme of Action of the World Summit for Social Development,” distributed at the World Summit for Social Development, Copenhagen, March 1995.
20. Samuel S. Kim, The Quest for a Just World Order (Boulder: Westview Press, 1984), 202.
21. Ian Brownlie, Basic Documents on Human Rights, 2nd ed. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1981), 26.
22. David McCullough, Truman (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1992), 957.
23. Alison Dundes Renteln, International Human Rights: Universalism Versus Relativism (Newbury Park: Sage Publications, 1990), 33.
24. Johan Galtung, Human Rights in Another Key (Cambridge: Polity Press, 1994), 54–58.
25. Quoted in Kim, Quest for a Just World Order, 211.
26. See Bay, “Taking the Universality of Human Needs Seriously, ” in John Burton, ed. Conflict: Human Needs Theory, (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1990), 248.
27. Jean-Bemard Marie, “Relations Between Peoples' Rights and Human Rights: Semantic and Methodological Distinction, ” Human Rights Law Journal 7 (1986), 202.
28. Hurst Hannum, “The Limits of Sovereignty and Majority Rule: Minorities, Indigenous Peoples, and the Right to Autonomy,” in Ellen L. Lutz, Hurst Hannum, and Kathryn J. Burke, eds. New Directions in Human Rights (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1989), 19, emphasis in original.
29. Yoram Dinstein, “Self-Determination and the Middle East Conflict,” in Claude and Weston, eds., Human Rights in the World Community (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1989), 161.
30. Theodoor C. Van Boven, “Distinguishing Criteria of Human Rights,” in Karel Vasek, ed. The International Dimensions of Human Rights (Westport: Greenwood Press, 1982), 55.
31. Alan Durning, “Supporting Indigenous Peoples, ”in WorldWatch Institute, ed. State of the World 1993 (New York: Norton, 1993), 83.
32. Louis Henkin, The Age of Rights (New York: Columbia University Press, 1990).
33. See Jack Donnelly, Universal Human Rights in Theory and Practice (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1989), 143–154.
34. Václav Havel, Summer Meditations (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992), 98.
35. Henry Shue, Basic Rights: Subsistence, Affluence and US Foreign Policy (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1980), 27.
36. See Alan Riding, “Women Seize Focus at Rights Forum,” New York Times, June 15, 1993.
37. Paul Kennedy, Preparing for the Twenty-First Century (New York: Random House, 1993), 287.
38. See Cornel West, Race Matters (Boston: Beacon Press, 1993), 11–20.