Human Rights NGOs: The Power of Persuasion

Ethics and International Affairs

Volumn 13, Issue , 1999, Pages 151-174

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DOI: 10.1111/j.1747-7093.1999.tb00333.x     Document Type: Article

References (63)

1. “Mrs. Roosevelt Reveals Human Rights ‘Grapevine,’” New York Times, December 8, 1948, p. 13.
2. Jack Donnelly, “Human Rights and U.S. Foreign Policy: Forty Years of Thinking,” (Chapel Hill, N.C., Fall 1987, photocopy), p. 3.
3. Curiously, the first human rights article Foreign Affairs published was William Korey, “Human Rights Treaties: Why Is the U.S. Stalling?” Foreign Affairs 45 (April 1967), pp. 413–24.
4. Hans J. Morgenthau, Politics Among Nations: The Struggle for Power and Peace (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1948). Subsequent editions were published in 1954, 1960, 1966, and 1973.
5. Hans J. Morgenthau and Kenneth J. Thompson, Politics Among Nations: The Struggle for Power and Peace, 6th ed. (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1986). Thompson revised the previous editions with material prepared by Morgenthau after 1973.
6. “Human rights” appeared in the First Distinguished CRIA Lecture on Morality and Foreign Policy, published in 1979 by the Council on Religion and International Affairs as “Human Rights and Foreign Policy.” Thompson explained how he prepared the revision in the preface to the sixth edition of Morgenthau's classic work.
7. See Dorothy B. Robins, Experiment in Democracy: The Story of U.S. Citizen Organizations in Forging the Charter of the United Nations (New York: Parkside Press, 1971)
8. To Reaffirm Faith in Fundamental Human Rights: The UN and Human Rights, 1945–95 (New York: The Jacob Blaustein Institute for the Advancement of Human Rights, 1995)
9. “Tribute by James Shotwell,” A World Charter for Human Rights (New York: American Jewish Committee, n.d.).
10. Joseph M. Proskauer, A Segment of My Times (New York: Farrar, Straus, 1950), p. 225.
11. A Segment of My Times.
12. Theo van Boven, “The Role of Non-Governmental Organizations in International Human Rights Standard-Setting: A Prerequisite of Democracy,” California Western International Law Journal, no. 20 (1990), p. 211; and UN Doc. SG/SM 999, p. 2.
13. See Egon Schwelb, Human Rights and the International Community (Chicago: Quadrangle Books, 1964), pp. 48–49.
14. Bernard Gwertzman, “Reagan Will Submit 1948 Genocide Pact for Senate Approval,” New York Times, September 6, 1984
15. also see the editorial the next day in the Washington Post, “Ratify the Genocide Treaty,” September 7, 1984.
16. Peter Archer, “Action by Unofficial Organizations for Human Rights,” in Evan Luard, ed., The International Protection of Human Rights (New York: Frederick A. Praeger, 1967), pp. 162–69.
17. Thomas Buergenthal, interview by author, December 8, 1995.
18. William Korey, “The Key to Human Rights-Implementation,” International Conciliation, no. 570 (November 1968), pp. 17–19.
19. William Korey, NGOs and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: “A Curious Grapevine” (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998), pp. 68–75.
20. Sidney Liskofsky, “The U.N. Reviews Its NGO System,” Reports on the Foreign Scene (American Jewish Committee), no. 10 (January 1970), p. 4
21. William Korey, “We, the Peoples,” Vista 5 (May-June 1970), p. 29.
22. Jerome J. Shestack, “Sisyphus Endures: The International Human Rights NGO,” New York Law School Law Review 24 (1978), pp. 89–123.
23. Jonathan Power, Amnesty International: The Human Rights Story (London: Fontana Paperbacks, 1981)
24. Harry M. Scoble and Laurie S. Wiseberg, “Human Rights and Amnesty International,” The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (May 1974), pp. 18–25.
25. Amnesty International, Annual Report 1974–75 (London: Amnesty International, 1976), p. 18
26. Nigel Rodley, The Treatment of Prisoners Under International Law (New York: Oxford University Press, 1987), pp. 18–23.
27. Iain Guest, Behind the Disappearances: Argentina's Dirty War Against Human Rights and the United Nations (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1990), pp. 31–32, 80–86.
28. Tom J. Farer and Felice Gaer, “The UN and Human Rights: At the End of the Beginning,” in Adam Roberts and Benedict Kingsbury, eds., United Nations, Divided World: The UN's Roles in International Relations (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993), pp. 240–96, especially p. 287.
29. Carl-Johan Groth, interview by author, November 18, 1996
30. Max Van Der Stoel, interview by author, May 16, 1997.
31. Tom McCarthy, interview by author, March 27, 1996.
32. Les De Villiers, In Sight of Surrender: The U.S. Sanctions Campaign Against South Africa, 1946–93 (Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 1995), pp. xiv-xv, 23–25, 55, 125, 194.
33. Human Rights in the World Community: A Call for World Leadership, Report of the Subcommittee on International Organizations and Movements of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of Representatives (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1974), 53.
34. The actual hearings were published separately. See International Protection of Human Rights: The Work of International Organizations and the Role of U.S. Foreign Policy Foreign Affairs Committee, Subcommittee on International Organizations and Movements, 93rd Congress, 1st Session (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Printing Office, 1974).
35. Sandy Vogelgesang, American Dream, Global Nightmare: The Dilemma of U.S. Human Rights Policy (New York: W. W. Norton, 1980), p. 204.
36. William Korey, “The Struggle over Jackson-Mills-Vanik,” The American Jewish Year Book, 1974–75, vol. 75 (Philadelphia: American Jewish Committee and Jewish Publication Society of America, 1976), pp. 149–245
37. William Korey, “The Struggle over the Jackson Amendment,” The American Jewish Yearbook, 1976, vol. 76 (Philadelphia: American Jewish Committee and Jewish Publication Society of America, 1976), pp. 160–70
38. William Korey, “Jackson-Vanik and Soviet Jewry,” Washington Quarterly 6 (Winter 1984), pp. 126–28.
39. William Korey, The Promises We Keep: Human Rights, The Helsinki Process and American Foreign Policy (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1993), pp. 45–61.
40. The Promises We Keep: Human Rights, The Helsinki Process and American Foreign Policy.
41. Gara LaMarche, “Jeri Laber: From Cold Wars to Hot Ones, She Makes Countries Live Up to Their Human Rights Commitments,” Human Rights Quarterly Newsletter, Summer 1993, p. 6.
42. Henry Kissinger, Diplomacy (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994), pp. 759–60.
43. Our Voice: Reports of the Asia-Pacific Conference on Human Rights and NGOs' Statements to the Asia Regional Meeting (Bangkok: Asian Cultural Forum on Development, 1993), pp. 6, 253.
44. Fateh Azzam, “Non-Governmental Organizations and the UN World Conference on Human Rights,” The Review (International Commission of Jurists), no. 50 (1993), pp. 89–105
45. 25 Years on the Cutting Edge of Human Rights: JBI's 25th Anniversary Review (New York: American Jewish Committee, 1997), p. 7
46. Felice Gaer, “Non-Governmental Organizations and the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights” (prepared for the Carter Center's International Human Rights Council, April 1997, photocopy).
47. Felice D. Gaer, “And Never the Twain Shall Meet? The Struggle to Establish Women's Rights as International Human Rights,” in The International Human Rights of Women: Instruments of Change (Washington, D.C.: American Bar Association, Section of Law and Practice, 1998), pp. 25–36, 41–70.
48. See Aryeh Neier, “What Should Be Done About the Guilty,” New York Review of Books, February 1, 1990, pp. 32–35
49. War Crimes in Bosnia-Hercegovina (New York: Human Rights Watch, August 1992)
50. War Crimes in Bosnia-Hercegovina, vol. 2 (New York: Helsinki Watch, April 1993)
51. Prosecute Now: Helsinki Watch Releases Eight Cases for War Crimes Tribunal on Former Yugoslavia (New York: Human Rights Watch/Helsinki, August 1993).
52. “About the NGO Coalition for an ICC,” Monitor, no. 6 (November 1997), pp. 2, 12. The Monitor was the organ of the coalition.
53. Also see William Pace, “Presentation to the International Conference for the Establishment of an International Criminal Court in Montevideo, Uruguay, October 10–11, 1997,” photocopy.
54. John F. Harris, “Clinton Pushes for the UN War Crimes Tribunal,” Washington Post, October 16, 1996. How Human Rights Watch helped in the Clinton decision was made known to the author by the general counsel of that NGO, Juan Mendes, in an interview with the author on November 8, 1996.
55. See Kader Asmal, Reconciliation Through Truth (Cape Town: David Philip, 1996), pp. 18–19,144
56. Thomas Buergenthal, “The United Nations Truth Commission for El Salvador,” Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law 27 (October 1994), pp. 498–500
57. Priscilla Hayner, “Fifteen Truth Commissions-1974 to 1994: A Comparative Study,” Human Rights Quarterly 16 (1994), pp. 597–655.
58. See also the article by David Little in this volume of Ethics & International Affairs.
59. Human Rights Internet Reporter, vol. 15, Supplement Master List, 1994.
60. Cited in “Human Rights in China,” a four-page fact sheet prepared by the NGO Human Rights in China and distributed at a press conference at the New York Public Library, November 21, 1997.
61. Jessica T. Mathews, “Power Shift,” Foreign Affairs, January-February 1997, p. 54.
62. Henry J. Steiner, Diverse Partners: Non-Governmental Organizations in the Human Rights Movement (Cambridge: Harvard Law School Human Rights Program and Human Rights Internet, 1991), pp. 22–30.
63. Anthony DePalma, “As U.S. Looks On, 120 Nations Sign Treaty Banning Land Mines,” New York Times, December 4, 1997.