Needs, Rights and Democratic Renewal

Democratic Consolidation and Human Rights in Brazil

Thirteen years ago the authoritarian regime in Brazil came to an end and the civilian transition government was installed. Three years later the Constitution of 1988 was promulgated with the most comprehensive and specific bill of rights in Brazilian political history. Today, despite the democratic guarantees in effect since then, the country is still ravaged by systemic violence in which the a...

A human rights approach to democratic governance and development1

A human rights approach to development starts from the basic premise that the achievement of human rights is the objective of any process aimed at improving the human condition. It uses the various concepts associated with human rights, understood in their broadest sense as the scaffolding of development policy. It invokes the international apparatus of human rights in support of development ac...

Reimagining Democratic Inclusion: Asian Americans and the Voting Rights Act

Introduction ..................................................................................................................... 359 I. Voting Rights Act, Section 2: Minority Voting Dilution and Protection of Communities of Common Interest ............................................................ 362 II. Democratic Inclusion and Demographic Diversity ..........................................

The renewal of democratic practices in knowledge societies

Rights and needs: rethinking the connections in debates over reproductive and sexual rights.

t the March 1999 Preparatory Committee Meeting for the United Nations General Assembly Special Session's five-year review of the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD+5), the "pro-family" newspaper Vivant! published a feature artiele, replete with statistical data and graphics, condemning the "flawed human rights-based approach to health."' Central to the article's attack...