Human Rights & Human Welfare | Vol 7 | Iss 1

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Joel R. Pruce on The Human Rights Reader: Major Political Essays, Speeches and Documents from Ancient Times to the Present (Second Edition), by Micheline R. Ishay. New York, NY: Routledge, 2007. 592pp.
Joel R. Pruce

Matthew S. Weinert on Truth Commissions and Procedural Fairness by Mark Freeman. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. 400pp.
Matthew S. Weinert

Ali Wyne on Understanding Poverty Edited by Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee, Roland Bénabou, and Dilip Mookherjee. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. 496pp.
Ali Wyne

Matthew S. Weinert on Human Security and the UN: A Critical History by S. Neil MacFarlane and Yuen Foong Khong. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2006. 341pp.
Matthew S. Weinert

Craig Berry on Global Ethics and Civil Society edited by John Eade and Darren J. O’Byrne. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, 2005. 180pp.
Craig Berry

Ali Wyne on The Economic Life of Refugees by Karen Jacobsen. Bloomfield, CT: Kumarian Press, 2005. 131pp.
Ali Wyne

Myra Pong on Spatial Disparities in Human Development: Perspectives from Asia edited by Kanbur, Ravi, Anthony J. Venables, and Guanghua Wan. Tokyo: United Nations University Press, 2006.
Myra Pong

Debra L. DeLaet on Health and Human Rights: Basic International Documents, 2d Edition, edited by Stephen P. Marks. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Published by Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights; Distributed by Harvard University Press, 2006. 392pp.
Debra L. DeLaet

Debra L. DeLaet on Understanding Human Rights: An Exercise Book by Elisabeth Reichert. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, 2006. 271pp.
Debra L. DeLaet

Sylvia Maier on Human Rights in the World Community. Issues and Action (Third Edition) edited by Richard Pierre Claude and Burns H. Weston. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006. 543 pp.
Sylvia Maier

Kathleen Barrett on Challenges to Peacebuilding: Managing Spoilers During Conflict Resolution Edited by Edward Newman and Oliver Richmond. New York: United Nations University Press, 2006. 329pp.
Kathleen Barrett

Richard Matthew on Pakistan’s Drift into Extremism: Allah, the Army, and America’s War on Terror by Hassan Abbas. London: M. E. Sharpe, 2005. 276 pp.
Richard Matthew

Christina M. Cerna on The UN International Criminal Tribunals, The former Yugoslavia, Rwanda and Sierra Leone by William A. Schabas. New York, Cambridge University Press, 2006. 711 pp.
Christina M. Cerna

Elisabeth King on Researching Conflict in Africa : Insights and Experiences. Edited by Elisabeth Porter, Gillian Robinson, Marie Smyth, Albrecht Schnabel, and Eghosa Osaghae. New York : United Nations University Press, 2005. 160pp.
Elisabeth King

Allen Keiswetter on Women in the Middle East: Past and Present by Nikki R. Keddie. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006. 416pp.
Allen Keiswetter

Eric K. Leonard on Atrocity, Punishment, and International Law by Mark A. Drumbl. New York, Cambridge University Press, 2007. 316 pp.
Eric K. Leonard

Marten Zwanenburg on UN Peacekeeping in Lebanon, Somalia and Kosovo: Operational and Legal Issues in Practice by Ray Murphy. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. 392 pp.
Marten Zwanenburg

Debra L. DeLaet on War Crimes and Genocide
Debra L. DeLaet

Review Essays

Freeing All God’s Children
Clifford Bob

“I’m Just Talking About the Law”: Guantánamo and the Lawyers
Marten Zwanenburg

Noble Human Rights Defender or International Band-Aid? On Contemporary Humanitarianism
Kurt Mills

Making Sense of a Senseless War
J. Peter Pham

The Ethics of Torture
Rebecca Evans

Exploring Universal Rights: A Symposium
Jamie Mayerfeld, Brooke Ackerly, Henry Shue, Jack Donnelly, Kok-Chor Tan, and Charles Beitz

The Universality of Human Rights: A Response
William J. Talbott

Topical Research Digest

Human Rights and the War on Terror Second Edition: Introduction
Jack Donnelly

Chechnya: Human Rights Issues
Latife Bulur

The Effects of the Madrid and London Subway Bombings on Europe’s View of Terrorism
Katie Friesen

United States Foreign Policy: Liberty and Security?
Jessi Schimmel

Human Rights Challenges in Georgia
Latife Bulur

Sudan: A Survey of Terrorism and Human Rights
Arika Long

A Survey of Terrorism and Human Rights in Uganda
Arika Long

Uzbekistan at the Crossroads
Latife Bulur

Human Rights and the War on Terror: Complete 2005 - 2007 Topical Research Digest
Jack Donnelly, Simon Amajuru, Susannah Compton, Robin Davey, Syd Dillard, Amanda Donahoe, Charles Hess, Sydney Fisher, Kelley Laird, Victoria Lowdon, Chris Maggard, Alexandra Nichols, Travis Ning, Toni Panetta, Greg Sanders, James Smithwick, Angela Woolliams, Chris Saeger, Sarah Bania-Dobyns, Eric Dibbern, David Gillespie, Latife Bulur, Katie Friesen, Arika Long, Arianna Nowakowski, and Joel R. Pruce

Topical Research Digest 2

Human Rights in Russia and the Former Soviet Republics: Introduction
Arianna Nowakowski

Civil Society and Human Rights
Ken Bonneville

Disability Rights
Annika Johnson

Ethnic Conflict
Kristina Libby

Gender and Human Rights
Lisa Weilminster

The Health Crisis in Russia
Christine Danton

Violations of Human Rights in the Russian Military
Cathy Smith

Human Trafficking
Susan Freese

Political Repression of Islam
Amy Swift

Prospects for Democracy
Nick Stokes

Repatriation of Ethnic Groups
Kirsten Benites

The Roma: During and After Communism
Florinda Lucero and Jill Collum

Totalitarianism: The Case of Turkmenistan
Hayden Gore

Working Papers

Violations of Human Rights during Military Operations in Chechnya
Federico Sperotto

Human Rights Education: The Third Leg of Post-Conflict/Transitional Justice
David E. Guinn

Who Intervenes and Why it Matters: The Problem of Agency in Humanitarian Intervention
Eric A. Heinze

Law in Times of War: the Case of Chechnya
Federico Sperotto

US Policy on Small Arms Transfers: A Human Rights Perspective
Susan Waltz