Issue no. 298 January-February 1998
No hiding place Human rights - a world report
No hiding place
As we are celebrating 50 years since the Universal Declaration of Human Rights Nikki
van der Gaag looks at the dilemmas and debates of a world still divided.
Dying of shame
While the West mouths pious words, the children of Iraq are being buried in their
hundreds of thousands. Felicity Arbuthnot unearths a deadly hypocrisy.
The ark of resistance
David Ransom speaks with Nobel Peace Prize winner José Ramos Horta from East Timor.
Tyrants on trial
Ali Qassim explains the difficulties of establishing an International Criminal Court.
Of guns and government
Brazil's Diolinda de Souza refuses to be daunted by death-threats or by the
imprisonment of her husband, as David Ransom finds out.
The Trojan horse
Winnie Mandela was not the only one to face South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation
Commission. Beth Lyons sat in on another of its hearings.
Foreign bodies
When lives are under threat, sometimes it pays to be an outsider. Luis Enrique
Eguren records a day in the life of an unusual human-rights organization.
The right that dares not speak its name
Ignacio Saiz examines how and why people all over the world suffer because
of their sexual identity.
The heart of being human
Todd Gitlin takes us on a journey through the meaning of rights and wrongs.
Diapers and dictators
Tania Cordoba profiles Kenya's Reverend Timothy Njoya.
New day yet to dawn: the Kurds
Onnik Krikorian's moving photographs are a testimony to a people's steadfastness.
Paying the price of freedom
Katrina Payne engages with the Egyptian Nawal El Saadawi, fierce advocate
of the rights of women.
Sticks, stones and smokescreens
Angela Lee Nga Kam reports from an embattled Hong Kong.
CHRONICLE OF 1997
An alternative view of the year's events, with special features on North
Korea, China, Algeria, Congo (Zaire), Afghanistan, India at 50 and alternative
prizewinners.
Confessions of a shameless editor:
the NI celebrates 25 years .
Letters
Letter from Colombia
Jumbo Crossword
Reviews: including Best of 1997
Country profile: Oman
MAGAZINE DESIGNED BY IAN NIXON. FRONT COVER PHOTOGRAPHY BY JULIO ETCHART.
