scroll to top
Press enter or spacebar to select a desired language.
Press enter or spacebar to select a desired language.
Your source for trusted research content

EBSCO Auth Banner

Let's find your institution. Click here.

Advanced Search Results For "human rights"

1 - 10 of 538 results for
 "human rights"
Press enter or spacebar to adjust the number of results displayed.

Democracy's Ambivalent Effect on Terrorism.

Publication Type: Academic Journal

Source(s): Journal of Conflict Resolution. Aug/Sep2023, Vol. 67 Issue 7/8, p1618-1643. 26p.

Abstract: Does democracy heighten or lessen the incidence of terrorism? This question has eluded a definitive answer for over three decades. Some terrorism researchers find that democracy has dampened terrorism; others that democracy has encouraged it; still oth...

Lobbying, Access Points, and the Protection of Human Rights in Democracies.

Publication Type: Academic Journal

Source(s): International Interactions. Sep2023, p1-27. 27p. 3 Illustrations, 2 Charts.

Abstract: Abstract Why do some democracies better protect human rights than other democracies? Although research shows that democracies engage in fewer human rights abuses than nondemocracies, we know less about what explains the variation in respect for right...

El pasado autoritario de la justicia transicional mexicana.

Publication Type: Academic Journal

Source(s): Latin American Research Review. Sep2023, Vol. 58 Issue 3, p631-648. 18p.

Abstract: El tema de la justicia transicional mexicana, materializado a través de una Fiscalía Especial que funcionó entre 2001 y 2006, sigue siendo ignorado en la academia. La mayoría de los estudios existentes supone que la Fiscalía Especial fue creada para ge...

Entrenching Inequity, Eroding Democracy: State Preemption of Local Housing Policy.

Publication Type: Academic Journal

Source(s): Journal of Health Politics, Policy & Law. Apr2023, Vol. 48 Issue 2, p157-185. 29p. 2 Maps.

Authors:

Abstract: Housing is a fundamental right and a vital determinant of health. Health equity is not possible without widespread access to safe. affordable. high-quality housing. Local housing policy is a central conduit for advancing such ends. However, preemption ...

Freedom on the offensive: human rights, democracy promotion, and US interventionism in the late Cold War.

Publication Type: Academic Journal

Source(s): International Affairs. Jul2023, Vol. 99 Issue 4, p1828-1830. 3p.

Abstract: By the late 1970s, there was a market for a new US foreign policy that might halt the communist advance abroad and - Reagan hoped - to drown out the post-Vietnam foreign policy cacophony with a new bipartisan consensus. Michael Schmidli finds the answe...

KOREA, WITH THE U.S., WILL MARCH TOWARD THE FUTURE.

Publication Type: Periodical

Source(s): Vital Speeches of the Day. Jun2023, Vol. 89 Issue 6, p118-121. 4p.

Abstract: The article presents a speech by South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol in commemoration of the 70th anniversary of the South Korea-U.S. alliance. Topics covered in the speech include the historical importance of the alliance, economic cooperation, conce...

Kontribusi National Endowment for Democracy (NED) dalam Aksi Protes Domestik di Thailand Tahun 2020-2021.

Publication Type: Academic Journal

Source(s): Jurnal Hubungan Internasional. jan-jun2023, Vol. 16 Issue 1, p229-248. 20p.

Abstract: Thailand merupakan negara yang memiliki sejarah panjang konflik militer dan politik sehingga pada beberapa tahun terakhir masih terjadi aksi protes domestik. Para demonstran menuntut reformasi konstitusi, mundurnya Perdana Menteri Prayut Chan-o-cha ser...

The Limits of the No-Limits Partnership.

Publication Type: Periodical

Source(s): Foreign Affairs. Mar/Apr2023, Vol. 102 Issue 2, p94-105. 11p.

Authors:

Abstract: The article focuses on partnership of China with Russia after Chinese President Xi Jinping hosted his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, at the opening of the Olympic Games in Beijing, China. It mentions joint statement declaring that China and Russi...

Business and Human Rights in Latin America: An Introduction to the Special Issue.

Publication Type: Academic Journal

Source(s): Business & Human Rights Journal. Oct2022, Vol. 7 Issue 3, p335-341. 7p.

Abstract: In his landmark 1967 novel One Hundred Years of Solitude , Gabriel García Márquez wrote about the 'Banana Massacre', where plantation workers that had been striking against the United Fruit Company to improve their working conditions were killed by the...

A LABEL COVERING A “MULTITUDE OF SINS”: THE HARM OF NATIONAL SECURITY DEFERENCE.

Publication Type: Academic Journal

Source(s): Harvard Law Review. Nov2022, Vol. 136 Issue 1, p59-74. 16p.

Authors:

Abstract: The article focuses on the harm of judicial deference in cases involving national security, using examples from recent Supreme Court decisions. The topics covered include the insulating of national security abuses from meaningful judicial review, the p...

sponsored