November 1, 2001

Tough Lessons From a Conference on Global Human Rights

By Richard Magat

Less than a month before the September 11 terrorist attacks, a United Nations conference in Durban, South Africa, focused on racism, xenophobia, and related forms of intolerance. Leading American foundations and civil-rights groups deemed the meeting a success, even a milestone, for forthright declarations of the rights of such oppressed minorities as Gypsies, low-caste Dalit in India and other parts of Asia, indigenous people of Latin America, and

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