Justice (Social & Econ) - Human Rights - article collection
Posted Jan 14, 2003

last updated 4-30-2005

8 Things Masjids Can Do to Boost Social Services, Malik Mujahid, http://www.soundvision.com/info/socialservice/masjids.asp

A Moral Level of Consumption, Robert Jensen, http://www.counterpunch.org/jensen10302003.html

A Time to Speak, Yahiya Emerick, http://www.theamericanmuslim.org/2002feb_comments.php?id=163_0_6_0_C 

AARP Gone Astray http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FA0813FD3E5F0C728EDDA80994DB404482

About Human Rights, Tariq Ramadan, http://max211.free.fr/articles/anglais/articles-human-right.htm

Bush’s Promise of Sacrifice http://www.democraticunderground.com/articles/03/03/p/29_mother.html 

Cairo Declaration on Human Rights http://www.humanrights.harvard.edu/documents/regionaldocs/cairo_dec.htm

Casablanca Declaration of the Arab Human Rights Movement http://www.hri.ca/doccentre/docs/casa-dec.shtml

Columbia and Human Rights, Nina Englander http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20031124&s=englander

Contingent Universality of Human Rights, Abdullahi An-Naim, http://www.law.emory.edu/EILR/volumes/spg97/ANNAIM.html

Creating a Genuine Opportunity Society, Sen. Edward Kennedy http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0312-12.htm 

Democracy and Human Rights in the Middle East Today http://www.islam-democracy.org/4th_Annual_Conference-Ibrahim_address.asp

Democracy’s Trust Fund, Chuck Collins http://www.tompaine.com/feature2.cfm/ID/8172

Drowning First Class Style, James Galbraith http://www.tompaine.com/feature2.cfm/ID/8019

Economic Justice, A Cure for Terrorism, Dr. Robert D. Crane, http://www.theamericanmuslim.org/2002feb_comments.php?id=162_0_6_0_C

Engaged Islam, Asghar Ali Engineer http://www.religiousconsultation.org/engaged_islam.htm

Facing the Human Rights Abyss, Roger Normand http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20031222&s=normand

Failing to curb global poverty http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0426-31.htm

Fight of Our Lives, Bill Moyers http://www.alternet.org/stories/18954/

Fruits of Poverty, George Monbiot http://www.doublestandards.org/monbiot5.html

Geneva Accords http://www.americantaskforce.org/geneva.htm

Global Disparities: Of People and Pets, M. Shahid Alam http://theamericanmuslim.org/2005apr_comments.php?id=662_0_38_36_C

Globalize Justice and Banish Terrorism http://www.doublestandards.org/abidi4.html

Health Deteriorates in Two Class Society http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/gate/archive/2003/12/22/hsorensen.DTL

Human Rights and the Case of Islam, Nema Milaninia http://www.muslimwakeup.com/mainarchive/000487.php 

Human Rights Document Center http://www.hri.ca/doccentre/

Human Rights, International Law and Peace in the Middle East http://www.tikkun.org/magazine/index.cfm/action/tikkun/issue/tik0401/article/040112d.html

Human Rights Treaties, Conventions and Agreements http://www.hri.ca/uninfo/treaties/index.shtml

Humanitarian Interventioin, Richard Falk http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20030714&s=forum 

Hypocrisy and Human Rights, James Zogby http://www.iviews.com/Articles/articles.asp?ref=IV0504-2665

In Every Generation, Pharoah, Rabbi Arthur Waskow, http://www.shalomctr.org/index.cfm/action/read/section/GLOB/article/justice19.html

International Movement for a Just World, www.just-international.org

Interview With a Muslim Social Worker, http://www.soundvision.com/info/socialservice/aneesah.asp

Islam and Social Justice, http://www.mindspring.com/~altafb/altaf.html

Islam and Social Justice, Shabnam Mahmood, http://www.mtrustonline.com/dailytrust/islam28112003.htm 

Justice: The origin, Framework, and Purpose of Representative Government in Islam, Dr. Robert D. Crane, http://theamericanmuslim.org/2003sept_comments.php?id=365_0_22_30_C

Justice Is a Process Not an Event, Inas Younis http://www.muslimwakeup.com/mainarchive/000712.php#more

MEDICARE
- Medicare Muddle, Paul Krugman http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F50715FE38540C758EDDAA0894DC404482
- Medicare and Social Security Cuts Ordered by Greenspan http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FB0712FC38580C758EDDAB0894DC404482
- Medicare Plan Cost Estimates Withheld http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0312-01.htm
- Greenspan’s Solution, Cut From Those Who Need It Most http://www.opednews.com/sherry022504_slamming_entitlement.htm
- Bush Acts to Reward Companies Who Cut Seniors Drug Coverage http://www.misleader.org/daily_mislead/Read.asp?fn=df01082004.html 
- State Officials Cautious on Medicare Drug Benefit http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/04/politics/04HEAL.html?ex=1084939200&en=5b87549fd54618a1&ei=5070&ex=1074223130&ei=1&en=c535325d4acac501

Monstrous Beyond Belief http://www.smirkingchimp.com/article.php?sid=14591

Muslim Americans Should Defend America by Defending Human Rights, Aga Saeed, http://www.amperspective.com/html/dr__agha_saeed.html 

Muslim World Journal of Human Rights http://www.bepress.com/mwjhr/

OIL AND POLITICS http://www.theamericanmuslim.org/2003nov_comments.php?id=412_0_23_30_C

PENSIONS
- Pension Deform, Molly Ivins http://www.workingforchange.com/article.cfm?itemid=14551

Pharoah Comes to Miami, Rabbi Arthur Waskow, http://www.shalomctr.org/index.cfm/action/read/section/GLOB/article/article500.html

Politics of Class War, John Buell http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0702-02.htm

Promoting Universal Human Rights: Dilemmas of Integrating Developing Countries, Mahmood monshipouri, Part I - http://www.theamericanmuslim.org/2003sept_comments.php?id=373_0_22_30_C
Part II - http://www.theamericanmuslim.org/2003sept_comments.php?id=373_0_22_30_C

Reagan’s Shameful Legacy, Ted Rall http://www.smirkingchimp.com/article.php?sid=16510&mode=nested

Reagonomics, Tony Horwitz http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/06/08/1086460292306.html?oneclick=true

Reagonomics http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20040628&s=greider

Religious Human Rights in the Judaic Tradition, David Novak, http://www.law.emory.edu/EILR/volumes/spring96/novak.html

Religious Dimension of Human Rights, Martin Marty, http://www.law.emory.edu/EILR/volumes/spring96/marty.html

Religious Human Rights in the Qur’an, Riffat Hassan, http://www.law.emory.edu/EILR/volumes/spring96/hassan.html

Religious Human Rights and the Bible, Desmond Tutu, http://www.law.emory.edu/EILR/volumes/spring96/tutu.html

Religious Undercurrents of Muslim Economic Grievances, Timur Kuran http://www.ssrc.org/sept11/essays/kuran.htm

Remarks at the 40th Anniversary Gathering (Return, Repair, Renew 1963-2003), Rabbi Arthur Waskow, http://www.theamericanmuslim.org/2003sept_comments.php?id=378_0_22_30_C

Share the Benefits and the Burdens, Mario Cuomo http://www.smirkingchimp.com/article.php?sid=11657

Social Organization: The Principle of Justice, Tariq Ramadan, http://max211.free.fr/articles/anglais/articles-justice.htm

SOCIAL SECURITY
- Plundering Social Security to Reduce Deficit http://slate.msn.com/id/2093707

Stability and Change in the Islamic Criminal Justice Theory and the Iranian Post-Revolutionary Practice, Hassan Rezaie http://www.iuscrim.mpg.de/forsch/krim/rezaei_e.html

Sustainable Poverty, Paul Harris http://yellowtimes.org/article.php?sid=1105

Taking Apart the New Deal http://www.democraticunderground.com/articles/03/03/p/29_mother.html

TAX CUTS
- Bad Policy, Smart Politics http://www.workingforchange.com/article.cfm?itemid=16234

Terror in Columbia, Bill Weinberg http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20040405&s=weinberg

THIRD WAY
- Personal Journey to the Just Third Way, Norman Kurland http://www.cesj.org/thirdway/history3rd/personaljourney-nk.html
- Louis Kelso’s Economic Vision for the 21st Century http://www.cesj.org/binaryeconomics/kelsovision.htm
- A Quick Comparison of Capitalism, Socialism and the Just Third Way http://www.cesj.org/thirdway/comparison3rdway.htm
- Binary Economics, Rodney Shakespeare http://www.cesj.org/binaryeconomics/bergenthirdway-RS.htm
- The Just Third Way http://www.cesj.org/thirdway/paradigmpapers/pressclub-nkmgdb-ppr.htm
- Elements of the Just Third Way http://www.cesj.org/thirdway/elements.htm

Universal Declaration of Human Rights http://iviews.com/articles/Articles.asp?ref=IV0312-2159

Universality of Human Rights, David Little, USIP, http://www.usip.org/religionpeace/rehr/universality.html

US Homelessness and Poverty Rates Skyrocket While Billions are Spent Overseas on Occupation, Jay Shaft http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0308/S00011.htm

Uzbekistan’s Human Rights Problem, Matt Bivens http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20011112&s=bivens20011030&c=1

Waking the Dead, Rabbi Michael Lerner, http://tikkun.org/magazine/index.cfm/action/tikkun/issue/tik0005/article/000503a.html

We the Unreasonable, Jeff Gates, http://www.tikkun.org/magazine/index.cfm/action/tikkun/issue/tik0307/article/030713b.html

WELFARE
- Bush Welfare Agenda: Married to a Myth http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0224/p09s02-coop.html

What Does Islam Teach About Justice, Khalid Baig, http://soundvision.com/info/peace/justice.asp

Where Is the World, Paul Harris http://yellowtimes.org/article.php?sid=1297

Working Poor: Invisible in America http://www.tikkun.org/index.cfm/action/current/article/213.html

World’s Poor Take on the West, http://www.guardian.co.uk/wto/article/0,2763,1039065,00.html

 


PEACE, JUSTICE, & SOCIAL WELFARE RESOURCES

American Muslims Intent on Learning & Activism, (AMILA) http://www.amila.org/

Center for Economic & Social Justice, http://www.cesj.org/

Coalition of Women For Peace, http://www.delphi.com/learntogrow

End the Occupation Coalition, http://www.eto.home.att.net/

Jewish Voices for Peace, http://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org

Muslim Peace Fellowship, (MPF-USA) http://www.mpfweb.org

Muslims Against Terrorism, (MAT) http://www.matusa.org/home.html

Students for International Peace and Justice, http://www.sipj911.com