Journal of Human Rights Graphic image by Kathe Kollwitz

Volume 3 Number 1 March 2004
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IN THIS ISSUE

The flogging of Bariya Magazu: Nigerian politics, Canadian pressures, and women's and children's rights
Rhoda Howard-Hassmann

Raising expectations? Civil society's influence on human rights and US foreign policy
Julie Mertus

A meaningful place in the world: Hannah Arendt on the nature of human rights
Serena Parekh

Slavery and the human right to evil
Kevin Bales

Battling demons or banal exterminism? Apocalypse and statecraft in modern mass murder
Mark Levene

LITERARY THEORY AND HUMAN RIGHTS: CLASSICAL AND CONTEMPORARY PERSPECTIVES

Writing and terror
Sean Gurd and Julija Sukys

Critiquing desire: philosophy, writing and terror
Russell Ford

Aeschylus terrorist
Sean Gurd

Language, the enemy: Assia Djebar's response to the Algerian intellocide
Julija Sukys

NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS