Our story always seems to pit the good guys against the bad guys:the founding fathers versus the evil empire, man versus machine, Main Street versus Wall Street, the ninety-nine percent versus the one percent. Nobody, including those of us who struggle to realize human rights in the United...

The promotion of human rights has been an important component of U.S. foreign policy for several decades. However, the specific content of U.S. human rights policy, as well as its place among foreign policy priorities more generally, has varied considerably over the years The present study...

Although human rights have been a concern for US foreign policymakers since the country’s origins, the contrast between the high principles declared in the Declaration of Independence and the country’s actually military and political weakness typically forced American political leaders into...

The recent uprising in the Peruvian Amazon highlights why the time is right for the United States to endorse the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. One might wonder how the endorsement of this Declaration by the United States could affect a crisis thousands of miles away in the...

New Rights: U.S. Ambivalence Toward the International Economic and Social Rights Framework, appears as chapter 5 in Bringing Human Rights Home: A History of Human Rights in the United States (Cynthia A. Soohoo, Catherine Albisa, and Martha F. Davis, eds., Praeger, 2007). Economic and social...

This article reviews the history and progress of the realization of the international human right to health in the United States. Realization is defined and described as ratification of international human rights treaties, on which the US performance is poor, and constitutional guarantees and...