A Shared Vision? Human Rights and the Church
From: Centre for Contemporary Christianity in Ireland 2000
1 Louis Henkin 'Human rights: Religious or Enlightened?' pp 31-35 in Carrie Gustafson and Peter Juviler (eds), Religion and Human Rights: Competing Claims? (Armonk, NY: ME Sharpe, 1999) p35
2 http://www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk/pa/cm199899/cmselect/cmfaff/100/10001.htm
3 Paragraph 31
4 Paragraph 14
5 David Walsh, 'Rights without Right' First Things 67 November, 1996 p10
6 See for example Amitai Etzioni, The Spirit of Community: Rights, Responsibilities and the Communitarian Agenda (London: Fontana, 1995) and Jonathan Sacks, The Politics of Hope (London: Jonathan Cape, 1997)
7 Michael Ignatieff, The Needs of Strangers (London: Chatto & Windus, 1984) p13
8 NATO/Federal Republic of Yugoslavia: '"Collateral Damage" or Unlawful Killings? - Violations of the Laws of War by NATO During Operation Allied Force', Section 1, (Amnesty International AI Index: EUR 70/18/00, June 2000)
9 See, for example the concerns raised in the House of Lords debate on the Human Rights Bill reported in 'The Human Rights Bill [HL], Bill 119 of 1997-98: Churches and Religious Organisations', House of Commons Research Paper 98/26, 13 February, 1998. See also on the different but related issue of European Directive 565 'Anti-Discrimination Brief', Evangelical Alliance: Public affairs Department at http://www.eauk.org/publicaffaira/campaigns/antidisc.htm
10 Vaclav Havel, 'Words on Words' New York Review of Books January 18 1990
11 David M Smolin, 'Will International Human Rights Law Be Used as a Tool of Cultural Genocide? The Interaction of Human rights Norms, Religion, Culture and Gender' pp143-171 in Journal of Law and Religion XII.1 (1995-6) p146
12 Smolin, 'Cultural Genocide' p152
13 Smolin, 'Cultural Genocide' p170
14 Phillip van Niekerk, 'Racism Charge is Being Used to Stifle Criticism' Daily Telegraph 25/2/00
15 Chris Moffat, 'Education' Fortnight January 2000 No 382 p11
16 I owe this argument to Dr Jonathan Chaplin
17 Mary Anne Glendon, Rights Talk: The Impoverishment of Political Discourse
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