Articles: Human Rights
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| Fall 2008 | Human Rights • Health Care |
Opening the Asylum Doors
THE INSANITY OFFENSE: How America’s Failure to Treat the Seriously Mentally Ill Endangers Its Citizens by E. Fuller Torrey |
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| Fall 2008 | Human Rights |
Beyond CSR
How companies can respect human rights. |
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| Fall 2008 | Human Rights • Government |
After Prison
Comprehensive reintegration programs will lower the U.S. recidivism rate. |
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| Fall 2008 | Human Rights • Corporate Social Responsiblity |
Dropping the Ball
Why the Soccer Ball Project is failing to protect workers in Pakistan. |
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| Winter 2008 | Human Rights • Corporate Social Responsiblity |
Getting Human Rights Right
Corporations that violate human rights not only inflict suffering, but also hurt their bottom line. The authors suggest five principles that corporations can follow to improve their human rights footprint. |
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| Winter 2008 | Human Rights • Corporate Social Responsiblity • Government |
The Responsibility Paradox [Free!]
Multinational corporations are in a quandary: Stakeholders are imposing higher standards than ever, but businesses are confused about what their global social responsibilities actually are. |
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| Fall 2007 | Human Rights | Review: Blessed Unrest | |
| Spring 2007 | Human Rights • Nonprofit Management |
Policing the Police [Free!]
The traditional approach among human rights groups in Nigeria had been accusatory: publicize injustices or sue the government. But in January 1998, on the eve of democracy, an NGO called the CLEEN foundation set out to reform law enforcement from within. |
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| Summer 2006 | Human Rights • Nonprofit Management • Government |
Balkan Boom to Bust
Vanishing NGOs in Bosnia leave lessons in their wake. |
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| Spring 2006 | Environment • Human Rights • Government |
It All Started Here
“The Hidden Cost of Paradise” sidebar. |
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| Spring 2006 | Environment • Human Rights • Philanthropy & Responsible Investing |
Bigger May Not Be Better
“The Hidden Cost of Paradise” sidebar. |
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| Fall 2005 | Human Rights • Social Entrepreneurship • Corporate Social Responsiblity |
The Myth of CSR [Free!]
As nice as it is to think that modern corporations can do well while also doing good, there are serious limitations that the market imposes on their CSR initiatives. In addition, the legal obligations of corporations to their shareholders further restrict CSR’s potential to help solve social and environmental problems. At some point, we should be asking ourselves whether or not we’ve been promoting a strategy more likely to lead to business as usual than to tackling the fundamental problems of our time. |
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| Fall 2005 | Human Rights • Government |
Imagining a Democracy
In Morocco, there are 33,000 NGOs, many of which are engaged in a massive struggle to bring a civil society to life, while avoiding the hazards of Middle East geopolitical tensions and the challenges of the country’s own recent history of egregious human rights violations. |
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