Volume 4 Contents

Articles
1. Human Rights and Armed Conflict--The Advisory Opinion of the International Court of Justice in the Nuclear Weapons Case by Dale Stephens
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2. Promoting Universal Human Rights: Dilemmas of Integrating Developing Countries by Mahmood Monshipouri
   
   It is within the context of globalization that developing countries' receptivity as well as resistance to global human rights standards must be understood. This Article suggests that an effective promotion of human rights in this context requires a deeper understanding of its effects on the most vulnerable people, and that to the extent that globalizing human rights standards overlook the complexity of local conditions and constraints, the promotion of the universal view of human rights will do little to ensure their realization in the developing world.
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3. The "Tragedy of the Commons" in Plant Genetic Resources: The Need for a New International Regime Centered Around an International Biotechnology Patent Office by Chetan Gulati
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4. Sterilization, Gender and the Law in Costa Rica by Naomi Seiler
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   Practitioners' Notes
5. Introduction. Beyond the Rhetoric: Strategies for Effecting Change in Women's Human Rights
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6. Practitioners' Note, Women's Rights in Russia: Training Non-Lawyers to Represent Victims of Domestic Abuse by Dianne Post
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7. Practitioners' Note, Working with the "Enemy": Collaborating in the Implementation of Women's Human Rights by Deanna D.B. Matzanke
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8. Practitioners' Note, Making Women's Land Rights a Reality in Uganda: Advocacy for Co-Ownership by Spouses Jacqueline Asiimwe
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