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October 2004: Bringing Human Rights Home: Why Universal Rights Protect America, Volume , Issue

Economic Security: A Human Right
Cass R. Sunstein
Reclaiming Franklin Delano Roosevelt's "Second Bill of Rights."

Shame in Our Own House
Gay McDougall
How segregation and racism have fed U.S. resistance to international human-rights treaties.

International Holdout
Ellen Chesler
Around the world, empowering women is considered essential. So why isn't America on board?

What We Expect From America
Mary Robinson
Global human-rights efforts need American leadership.

Holding America Accountable
Elisa Massimino
Why the United States should take human-rights obligations seriously.

Criminal Justice and the Erosion of Rights
Deborah Pearlstein
This isn't the first time a vaguely defined "war" has trumped civil liberties.

On America's Double Standard
Harold Hongju Koh
The good and bad faces of exceptionalism.

Inalienable Rights
Alison Parker
Can human-rights law help to end U.S. mistreatment of noncitizens?

From the Front Lines
Gara LaMarche
A review of recent reports on human rights.

The Road to Abu Ghraib
Anthony Lewis
How the United States played a large role in creating international human rights -- and then abandoned them.

The Partial Rule of Law
Anne-Marie Slaughter
America's opposition to the ICC is self-defeating and hypocritical.

Domestic Abuse
Tara McKelvey
How the U.S. government is violating Native Americans' human rights.

Rights in an Insecure World
Deborah Pearlstein
Why national security and civil liberty are complements.

A Lawless State
John Shattuck
How to restore America's global standing as a beacon of freedom -- both internationally and with its own citizenry.

Into the Bright Sunshine
Dorothy Q. Thomas
The value of human rights in the United States.

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