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- Title
Human Rights in the Foreign Policy of the Netherlands.
- Authors
Baehr, Peter R.; Castermans-Holleman, Monique C.; Grunfeld, Fred
- Abstract
The article discusses the role of human rights in the foreign policy of the Netherlands during the last quarter of the twentieth century. The reputation of Netherlands in the field of human rights is on the whole greater abroad than at home because domestic non-governmental human rights organizations are in a position to critically follow Dutch foreign policy, both in a multilateral and bilateral context. In its 1979 Memorandum, the Netherlands government put down some important principles for its human rights foreign policy. It provided an inventory of basic dilemmas that human rights foreign policy has to face, with at least the implication that it would be possible to find acceptable solutions for such dilemmas. From the beginning, the Netherlands reacted with strong economic measures to the human rights violations in Chile. The Dutch government's freedom of operation in the field of foreign policy is increasingly restricted by its membership in the European Union. It has been noticed that the Netherlands has become less outspoken on the subject of human rights during the last quarter of the twentieth century.
- Subjects
NETHERLANDS; HUMAN rights; INTERNATIONAL relations; HUMAN rights violations; ABUSE of rights; DUTCH politics &; government
- Publication
Human Rights Quarterly, 2002, Vol 24, Issue 4, p992
- ISSN
0275-0392
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/hrq.2002.0043