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Previous Volume 329:589-592 August 19, 1993 Number 8

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Speaking for the United States, Secretary of State Warren Christopher told the June 1993 World Conference on Human Rights in Vienna that human rights are universal and that "we cannot let cultural relativism become the last refuge of repression"¹. The universality of human rights was first recognized internationally in the 1948 United Nations Declaration of Human Rights². But the fact that these rights are recognized and even seen as universal does not ensure that they will be respected, even by their strongest supporters³. The lack of an international tribunal with jurisdiction to hear complaints about human-rights violations . . . [Full Text of this Article]

The Haitian Refugees

Medical Care at Guantanamo

First Amendment Rights

Due-Process Rights

Statutory and Regulatory Remedies

AIDS and Human Rights

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