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Human Rights Law And Military Aid Delivery: A Case Study Of The Leahy Law, Winifred Tate May 2013

Human Rights Law And Military Aid Delivery: A Case Study Of The Leahy Law, Winifred Tate

Winifred L. Tate

Explicitly prohibiting US military counternarcotics assistance to foreign military units facing credible allegations of abuses, Leahy Law creation and implementation illuminates the epistemological challenges of knowledge production about violence in the policy process. First passed in 1997, the law emerged from strategic alliances between elite NGO advocates, grassroots activists and critically located Congressional aides in response to the perceived inability of Congress to act on human rights information. I explore the resulting transformation of aid delivery: rather than suspend aid when no “clean” units could be found, US officials convinced their Colombian allies to create new units consisting of vetted …


Do Not Disturb: A Practical Guide For What Not To Do Around Cemeteries And Human Remains For The Louisiana Energy And Land Use Practitioner, Ryan M. Seidemann Jan 2013

Do Not Disturb: A Practical Guide For What Not To Do Around Cemeteries And Human Remains For The Louisiana Energy And Land Use Practitioner, Ryan M. Seidemann

Ryan M Seidemann

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How Do We Deal With All The Bodies? A Review Of Recent Cemetery And Human Remains Legal Issues, Ryan M. Seidemann Jan 2013

How Do We Deal With All The Bodies? A Review Of Recent Cemetery And Human Remains Legal Issues, Ryan M. Seidemann

Ryan M Seidemann

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