BRINGING VIOLATORS TO JUSTICE -- AN
AMERICAN VIEW
In an interview, John Shattuck, America's top human rights
authority says the only way to end the violence in Bosnia is to
bring to justice those responsible for unleashing it.
A COMMITMENT TO HUMAN DIGNITY,
DEMOCRACY, AND PEACE
President Bill Clinton reviews the role and value of war
tribunals and says democracy is essential to the strengthening of
human rights.
A CALL FOR REASONED JUSTICE
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen G. Breyer discusses the
precedent-setting work of American jurist, Robert Jackson, a
prosecutor at the Nuremberg trials.
COMMENTARY
WAR CRIMES ON TRIAL
Legal scholar Neil J. Kritz assesses the legacy of the
Nuremberg trials as the international community attempts to bring
perpetrators of war crimes in Bosnia and Rwanda to
justice.
REPORTS
NEW DOCUMENTS SHED LIGHT ON KHMER ROUGE
GENOCIDE
Before war criminals can be brought to account, evidence
must be gathered and made available to the public and to legal
experts.
SOUTH AFRICA'S TRUTH COMMISSION
GRAPPLES
WITH HUMAN RIGHTS PAST
An April 15, 1996, South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation
Commission opened its first public hearings on apartheid-era
human rights abuses.
LATIN AMERICAN TRUTH COMMISSIONS
Several Latin American countries have established truth
commissions in the aftermath of civil wars or internal
unrest.
DEPARTMENTS
SPEAKERS AND SPECIALISTS
Examples of recent USIA programs.
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Annotations of bibliography of recent books and periodicals
on human rights.
ARTICLE ALERT
Abstracts of articles on a wide range of democracy and human
rights issues.
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