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Human Rights Law

American University Washington College of Law

2005

Human Rights

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An American Gulag? Human Rights Groups Test The Limits Of Moral Equivalency, Kenneth Anderson Jun 2005

An American Gulag? Human Rights Groups Test The Limits Of Moral Equivalency, Kenneth Anderson

Popular Media

This 2005 article from the Weekly Standard criticizes the 2005 Amnesty International report and associated press releases and press conferences referring to the Guantanamo Bay detention facility as an American gulag. It more broadly criticizes the human rights movement for wanting it both ways - on the one hand, using extraordinarily inflammatory rhetoric such as raising the spectre of Soviet death camps, while on the other hand, calling for that very same, apparently deeply criminal regime, the Bush administration, to perform the tasks of human rights enforcement that the human rights movement would like to see performed elsewhere in the …


Report Of The Independent Expert On The Protection Of Human Rights And Fundamental Freedoms While Countering Terrorism, Robert K. Goldman Feb 2005

Report Of The Independent Expert On The Protection Of Human Rights And Fundamental Freedoms While Countering Terrorism, Robert K. Goldman

Reports

The Commission on Human Rights, in resolution 2004/87, decided to designate, from within existing resources, for a period of one year, an independent expert to assist the High Commissioner for Human Rights in the fulfillment of the mandate described in the resolution and, “taking fully into account the study requested in General Assembly resolution 58/187, as well as the discussions in the Assembly and the views of States thereon, to submit a report, through the High Commissioner, to the Commission at its sixty-first session on ways and means of strengthening the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms …


Introduction, Claudia Martin, Diego Rodriguez-Pinzon Jan 2005

Introduction, Claudia Martin, Diego Rodriguez-Pinzon

American University International Law Review

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Obligations Of State And Non-State Actors Regarding The Human Right To Water Under The South African Constitution, Anna R. Welch Jan 2005

Obligations Of State And Non-State Actors Regarding The Human Right To Water Under The South African Constitution, Anna R. Welch

Sustainable Development Law & Policy

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Legislative Watch, Heather Morris Jan 2005

Legislative Watch, Heather Morris

Human Rights Brief

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Legislative Watch, Ryan Vogel Jan 2005

Legislative Watch, Ryan Vogel

Human Rights Brief

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