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Revoking Citizenship In The Name Of Counterterrorism: The Citizenship Review Commission Violates Human Rights In Bosnia And Herzegovina, Stephanie Zosak
Revoking Citizenship In The Name Of Counterterrorism: The Citizenship Review Commission Violates Human Rights In Bosnia And Herzegovina, Stephanie Zosak
Northwestern Journal of Human Rights
In 2005, the government of Bosnia and Herzegovina passed a series of amendments to its citizenship law. The amendments affected the mandate of the Citizenship Review Commission (CRC), which was a body originally established to review naturalizations. Since the amendments took effect, and in response to international pressure to combat terrorism, the CRC has concentrated on reviewing the citizenship status of former who entered Bosnia and Herzegovina to fight alongside the Muslim Bosniaks in the 1992-1995 war that followed the country's declaration of independence from Yugoslavia. The CRC has revoked the citizenship of hundreds of former and has commenced deportation …
Should New Bills Of Rights Address Emerging International Human Rights Norms? The Challenge Of "Defamation Of Religion", Robert C. Blitt
Should New Bills Of Rights Address Emerging International Human Rights Norms? The Challenge Of "Defamation Of Religion", Robert C. Blitt
Northwestern Journal of Human Rights
The emerging international human rights norm of "defamation of religion," an ongoing flashpoint in debates at the United Nations (UN) and elsewhere, merits the attention of all parties playing a role in the drafting of new bills of rights. This article uses the case study of defamation of religion, as an emerging norm and the current debate over a possible Australian bill of rights, to argue that a well-rounded drafting process. This drafting process should contemplate the relevancy and impact of emerging norms as a means of enhancing the process, deepening domestic understanding of rights, and ensuring an outcome instrument …
Rights As Footprints: A New Metaphor For Contemporary Human Rights Practice, Katharine Young, Jeremy Perelman
Rights As Footprints: A New Metaphor For Contemporary Human Rights Practice, Katharine Young, Jeremy Perelman
Northwestern Journal of Human Rights
As the discourse of human rights becomes ever more widespread, the analysis of contemporary human rights practice must contend with its pluralistic and contradictory features. In this Article, we introduce the metaphor of rights as "footprints." We suggest that this metaphor captures the expressive and constitutive role of rights, and provides a critical tool with which to understand the accomplishments of the human rights field. In doing so, we document a right-to-health campaign in Accra, Ghana, which sought to end the human rights infringements that arose from the financing of health care through user fees. These infringements occurred when public …
Children Left Behind Bars: Sullivan, Graham, And Juvenile Life Without Parole Sentences, Tera Agyepong
Children Left Behind Bars: Sullivan, Graham, And Juvenile Life Without Parole Sentences, Tera Agyepong
Northwestern Journal of Human Rights
The practice of sentencing children to life in prison without parole is not only a misguided violation the standards of decency in U.S. law, but also a violation of international human rights law as well. The Supreme Court had the opportunity to eradicate the practice of sentencing children to LWOP when it heard the cases of and . However, the Court ruled that LWOP sentences would only be prohibited in cases where children committed non-homicide offenses. The Supreme Court should have categorically banned juvenile LWOP because it violates both domestic and international human rights law and has a disparate impact …