Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. as an International Human Rights Leader
Henry J. Richardson,
Villanova Law Review, Vol. 52, p. 471, 2007, Temple University Legal Research Paper No. 2007-`19
 

This paper provides an overview of Martin Luther King’s involvement in human rights causes such as his opposition to the war in Vietnam,
his leadership on economic rights for the poor and his opposition to South African apartheid.

The U.S. Senate is currently considering the ratification of the United Nations' Convention on the Rights of
Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). 

The CRPD will provide global guidelines for accessibility standards, as does the Americans with Disabilities Act
in the United States.  Over 147 nations have ratified this treaty. 

The Commission of Inquiry has found systematic, widespread and grave human rights violations occurring in the
Democratic People’s Republic of Korea against a wide variety of populations such as against inmates of political
and other prison camps; against starving populations; against religious believers; against persons who try to flee
the country - including those forcibly repatriated by China. The report was based in part on the testimony of
hundreds of witnesses who spoke to the Commission of extermination, murder, enslavement, torture, imprisonment,
rape, forced abortions and other sexual violence. 

United Nations Report on the Status of Women
March 5- 15, 2013 

 

Response to United Nations Report on the Status of Women
Letter to the Editor
The New Your Times.
March 14, 2013

 

Human Rights in History
Samuel Moyn,
The Nation, 8/30/2010

This article reviews the development of the idea of human rights from the 1940’s to the present day,
pointing out that there is no consensus on what is meant by that term. What exactly is the “common good?”