Description of Documents and Literature
| DOI | 10.1177/092405199601400113 |
| Published date | 01 March 1996 |
| Date | 01 March 1996 |
| Subject Matter | Article |
Documentation
which, from today's perspective, represent far less than the CRC actually accomplished.
The expansion
of
the CRC's work demonstrates that provisions
of
human rights treaties
relating to monitoring bodies may be similar, as well as their structure, composition,
secretariat and terms of reference (LeBlanc actually pointed out that 'there is nothing
about the CRC's structure that is truly innovative', p. 285), but what develops in practice
may be totally different. Difference between appearance and reality is actually the most
interesting topic for research and it is a pity that LeBlanc finished his book so early.
DESCRIPTION OF DOCUMENTS AND LITERATURE
Children in Sudan .' slaves, street children and child soldiers. -
Rone, Jemera. - Human Rights Watch. HRW/Africa. - New York: HRW, 1995. - x,
III
p.
ISBN: 1-65432-157-6
In this report Human Rights Watch criticizes the Government
of
Sudan for forcibly
inducting young boys for the army, and subjecting children on the street to arbitrary arrest
and detention without due process. The opposition (the Sudan People's Liberation Army
and the Southern Sudan Independence Army) also continues to recruit minors for military
training. There is no prosecution, although laws against kidnapping and forced labour are
violated. HRW calls on the government, the SPLA, and the SSIA to cease underage
recruitment and cooperate with family reunification programs, and end the practice of
holding children in Government camps.
Civil and political rights in Croatia. - Nizich, Ivana. - Human Rights Watch.
HRW/Helsinki. - New York: HRW, 1995. - vi, 170 p.
ISBN: 1-56432-148-7
This report describes the status of civil and political rights in Croatia from mid-1992 to
mid-1995. Although the Croatian Government has taken steps to correct some of the
abuses
of
human rights in the past, violations of civil and political rights against ethnic
minorities and political dissidents continue according to HRW. Forcible evictions from
state-owned housing, and the violence that often accompanies such evictions, remains the
most persistent human rights problem in Croatia. This report states that the Croatian
military is responsible for abuses, both on and
off
the battlefield, and that the rate of
prosecution and convictions remains low. Recommendations of HRW to the Government
of
Croatia and to the United States and the European Union are included.
Cultural dynamics in development processes. - Ruijter, Arie de ; Vucht Tijssen, Lieteke
van (eds.). - Netherlands National Commission for UNESCO. - The Hague: UNESCO,
1995. - 285 p.
ISBN: 92-3-103215-1
The conference papers which have been edited and collected in the present volume reveal
the difficulty
of
coming to grips with the problem of embedding the cultural dimension
seriously in development studies. A variety of questions on cultural dynamics and
development are ventilated in the collection. Some contributions are primarily aimed at
thinking through conceptual problems, such as the degree of heterogeneity, the
configuration and hierarchy of subcultures within a single nation-state, with the inherent
issues
of
power relations and ethics. Other articles focus more on the complex interaction
between culture and specific domains and institutions such as ecology, economics,
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