Food Aid and the World Hunger Solution: Why the U.S. Should Use a Human Rights Approach

2013 ◽  
pp. 25-42
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Food Aid ◽  
World Hunger ◽  
The World ◽  
The U.S

Food Aid and the World Hunger Solution: Why the U.S. Should Use a Human Rights Approach

2010 ◽  
Vol 18 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 10-27 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas J. Marchione ◽  
Ellen Messer
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Food Aid ◽  
World Hunger ◽  
The World ◽  
The U.S

The Persecuted Body

Facing Fear ◽  
2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Melani Mcalister
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Religious Freedom ◽  
First Century ◽  
Body Of Christ ◽  
Evangelical Christians ◽  
The World ◽  
Politics Of Fear ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
International Religious Freedom Act ◽  
The U.S

This chapter examines the politics of fear underlying the antipersecution discourse that revolved around evangelical Christians at the turn of the twenty-first century. A video made by the U.S.-based Christian evangelical group Voice of the Martyrs showed that Christians are being persecuted all around the world. By the turn of the twenty-first century, a passionate concern with the persecution of Christians united conservatives as well as liberal and moderate evangelicals. The chapter shows how antipersecution discourse resulted in the passage of the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998. It also considers the significance of spectacles of the violated body to the discourse of persecution and how intense attention to Christian persecution created a tension for evangelicals between the universalizing language of human rights and a specific commitment to the “persecuted body” of Christ. Finally, it explores how evangelicals' attention to Christian persecution intersects with Islamic concerns.

America and the World

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mugambi Jouet
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Foreign Policy ◽  
United Nations ◽  
American Exceptionalism ◽  
Manifest Destiny ◽  
Original Analysis ◽  
The World ◽  
The U.S ◽  
Western Democracies ◽  
Invasion Of Iraq

America has long been much more inclined than other Western democracies to defy norms of diplomacy, international law, and human rights deemed against its interests, although these stances have at times profoundly divided the U.S. public. Americans were bitterly divided over the Bush administration’s use of torture, its aim to detain alleged terrorists forever without trial at Guantanamo, and its catastrophic invasion of Iraq on grounds later revealed to be false. The Obama administration’s rather different approach to foreign policy proved divisive too. The chapter explores why Americans are far more polarized than Europeans over fundamental issues like war, diplomacy, the United Nations, and human rights. From the ideal of Manifest Destiny to America’s relative geographic isolation, superpower status, and the idea that God chose it to lead the world, Mugambi Jouet’s original analysis explains the interrelationship between the different aspects of American exceptionalism shaping U.S. foreign policy.

Mounties on the Loose

Worldview ◽  
1978 ◽  
Vol 21 (11) ◽  
pp. 4-7
Author(s):  
Robert Justin Goldstein
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Medical Records ◽  
Third World ◽  
State Department ◽  
Royal Canadian Mounted Police ◽  
The World ◽  
American Press ◽  
Protection Of Human Rights ◽  
Political Office ◽  
The U.S

According to a recent publication of the U.S. State Department, “The Canadian record in protection of human rights is one of the finest in the world.” Although President Carter has frequently spoken about threats to human rights in Communist and Third World countries, he has seemingly endorsed the State Department view by not saying a word about problems in Canada. Carter's silence has been largely matched by that of the American press, with the result that few Americans know that within the last year Canada has been rocked by a continuing scandal in which it has been revealed that the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP—yes, the “Mounties“) has for decades been systematically and secretly opening mail, breaking into homes and offices, and obtaining confidential tax, unemployment, and medical records, and checking into all candidates for political office.

scholarly journals Carter Versus Reagan: The Human Rights Records of Two Administrations

1988 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Michael A. Kelley
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
American Foreign Policy ◽  
The United States ◽  
Public Concern ◽  
Power Politics ◽  
Class Hierarchy ◽  
Founding Fathers ◽  
The World ◽  
The Republic ◽  
The U.S

The emergence of human rights as a public concern during the Carter administration was a recrudescence of the long tradition of moralism in American foreign policy. Confident that the republic is the pinnacle of political, social, and human development, Americans have believed since 1776 that the “United States must be a beacon of human rights to an unregenerate world” (Schlesinger, 1978: 505). Yet, while to the founding fathers America’s avoidance of Europe’s evils of class, hierarchy, and power politics was to be its greatest glory it is quite clear that they intended the U.S. to illuminate the path to a better world by example not by action. John Quincy Adam’s famous July 4 speech explained his perception of America’s mission to the world.

Under the Law

2018 ◽  
Vol 99 (5) ◽  
pp. 76-77
Author(s):  
Julie Underwood
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Supreme Court ◽  
International Law ◽  
Universal Declaration ◽  
Educational Rights ◽  
The Supreme Court ◽  
The World ◽  
The Law ◽  
The Right ◽  
The U.S

The right to an education is guaranteed by international law in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Similarly, UNESCO’s Constitution sets out the right to an education as necessary to “prepare the children of the world for the responsibilities of freedom.” No such right is mentioned in the U.S. Constitution, though. Perhaps Congress or the Supreme Court would be sympathetic, however, to an argument for educational rights based on the 14th Amendment’s guarantee of the rights of citizenship.

Al Nashiri v. Poland (Eur. Ct. H.R.)

2015 ◽  
Vol 54 (4) ◽  
pp. 571-734
Author(s):  
Christina M. Cerna
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Bush Administration ◽  
The State ◽  
Intergovernmental Organizations ◽  
Open Society ◽  
European Court ◽  
The World ◽  
The U.S

The European Court of Human Rights (European Court), increasingly known as “the conscience of Europe,” together with the Council of Europe’s Parliamentary Assembly, were the first intergovernmental organizations to reveal information about the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency’s (CIA) “black sites.” These “black sites” were secret prisons established around the world, outside of U.S. territory, by the George W. Bush administration and run by the CIA to detain suspects termed “high value,” and their existence was repeatedly denied by the U.S. and Polish Governments. The Soros funded Open Society Justice Initiative, filed the application with the European Court on behalf of Abd al-Nashiri on May 6, 2011, arguing that Poland had been complicit in his rendition, detention, and torture at a CIA black-site prison within the state.

scholarly journals Amnesty International Launches Campaign to Protect Women's Rights

2016 ◽  
pp. 4-6
Author(s):  
Lebanese American University
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Women's Rights ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
World Conference ◽  
Amnesty International ◽  
The World ◽  
The U.S

In preparation for the Fourth U.N. World Conference on Women, The U.S. branchof Amnesty International has launched a campaign to draw attention to increasingabuses of women's basic human rights around the world.

Concluding Comments

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
James A. Gross
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Collective Bargaining ◽  
Economic Activity ◽  
Law School ◽  
Business Activity ◽  
Legal Systems ◽  
Freedom Of Association ◽  
The World ◽  
The U.S ◽  
At Will

The concluding chapter makes a number of points: the Act is not neutral, but is intended to promote and protect workers’ rights; the international community recognizes the freedom of association and collective bargaining as human rights; and calls for visionary thinking including elimination of employment at will, revamping law school education to connect with workplace realities, the Board to consider the perspectives of other legal systems around the world, consideration of the U.S. Constitution as a source of workers’ rights, and abandonment of the pluralist values which would transform workers’ rights into workers’ interests–self-interested, economic activity no different than business activity.

The Golden Years of Human Rights?

2020 ◽  
pp. 249-254
Author(s):  
Vanessa Walker
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Cold War ◽  
National Security ◽  
The United States ◽  
Carter Administration ◽  
Security Strategy ◽  
National Security Strategy ◽  
The World ◽  
The U.S

This concluding chapter explains that for Movement advocates, the human rights vision of the 1970s was intimately connected with a reckoning with the U.S. failures of Vietnam, Cold War national security strategy, and, of course, Chile. The Movement and the Carter administration shared a vision of human rights as a way to improve not only the world but also the U.S. government and its policies. This is not to say the Movement's views were universally shared, or that human rights faded away after the 1970s. Rather, human rights continued to serve as an instrument of its time, a powerful idea and language, flexible and indelible. The Carter administration's human rights policy was far from perfect or consistent. It was, however, a uniquely self-reflective policy that restrained U.S. intervention and addressed abuses taking place in areas where the United States was most directly complicit in empowering violators.

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