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• Universality of human rights: General
• Islam & human rights

2001:

Asean states struggle to protect human rights: Our region still has more than its fair share of people in power who don't believe all deserve equal treatment.  But things can change. (Vitit Muntarbhorn, Professor of Law, Chulalongkorn University, in Bangkok Post, 25 Apr. 2001)

Universal Human Rights and Cultural Diversity: A review of Human Rights: New Perspectives, New Realities, edited by Adamantia Pollis and Peter Schwaberger (Hilde Hey, Human Rights & Human Welfare, Apr. 2001)

2000:

Pundits question relevancy of Asian values (Pravit Rojanaphruk, Nation [Bangkok], 14 May 2000)

Antecedents of the Idea of Human Rights: A Survey of Perspectives (Polly Vizard, UNDP Human Development Report 2000: Human Rights and Human Development Background Paper, U.N. Development Programme, 2000)

1999:

Are Human Rights Universal? (Shashi Tharoor, World Policy Journal, winter 1999/2000)

1998:

Seeking Confucian sources for rights: exercise in futility, or worse? (Susan Whitfield, China Rights Forum, spring 1998)

Confucianism and Human Rights [summary] (Wm. Theodore de Bary and Tu Weiming [eds.], Jan. 1998)

1997:

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights: Is It Universal? (Dato' Param Cumaraswamy, Human Rights Solidarity, Asian Human Rights Commission, Dec. 1997)

Constructive Engagement with Asian Values (Wm. Theodore de Bary, Columbia East Asian Review, fall 1997)

Real Asian Values (Washington Post editorial, in International Herald Tribune, 2-3 Aug. 1997)

Human Rights and Asian Values: What Lee Kuan Yew and Le Peng don't understand about Asia (Amartya Sen, in The New Republic, 14 July 1997)

Human Rights: Chinese & Canadian Perspectives [summary] (E.P. Mendes and A-M Traeholt [eds.], 1997)

1996:

"Asian Values" and the Universality of Human Rights (Xiaorong Li, China Rights Forum, fall 1996)

Human Rights, East and West (David Little, United States Institute of Peace, winter/spring 1996)

1995:

Speaker challenges ideas of Asian values - While some Americans may believe that the terms "political freedom," "civil liberties" and "democracy" are purely Western ideals, Amartya Sen has a different perspective. (Leslie Nurse, Yale Daily News, 28 Sep. 1995)

Human Rights: Universal? Indivisible? Interdependent? (Rene V. Sarmiento, 20 June 1995)

Human Rights and Cultural Values: The Political Philosophies of the Dalai Lama and the People's Republic of China (John Powers, Faculty of Asian Studies, Australian National University, 1995)

1993:

Bangkok NGO Declaration on Human Rights (Mar. 1993)