Human Rights Magazine
Summer 1998, Volume 25, Number 3
Serving the Changing Needs of Society
Muriel Morisey
The changing needs of society are sometimes diffficult to discern and invariably challamging to address. Yet we must make a sustained conscious commitment to improving the law to serve those needs or risk getting mired in unduly rigid and even outmoded approaches to our profession.
A Declaration's 50th Anniversary
Kathryn A. Tongue
Future of International Human Rights
Frederic L. Kirgis
Before the advent of the United Nations in 1945, "no rule was clearer than that a state's treatment of its own nationals is a metter exclusively within the domestic jurisdiction of that state, i.e., is not controlled or regulated by international law." Even as aliens within its territory, a government's pre-1945 customary international law duties amounted only to a rather loose set of principles designed to protect aliens' property from confiscation, and to protect them from blatant denials of justice.
UN Repoort Says Halt Executions
CEDAW Provisions Wide-Ranging
Kathryn A. Tongue
Task Force on War Criminals
Paul R. Williams and Michael P. Scharf
The fundamental disagreement that has arisen in the aftermath of Machado, pitting free speech against the breadth of criminal codes protecting health and safety, seems only to be reenergized. Although hate filled e-mail messages and private chat room conversations containing offensice languagehave been a growing concern, most of the debate has centered around hate-based Websites that have increased in recent years.
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