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Profitability Versus The Public Interest: Is International Patent Law Hindering Third World Countries Access To Hiv/Aids Medications, Karen Godnick
Profitability Versus The Public Interest: Is International Patent Law Hindering Third World Countries Access To Hiv/Aids Medications, Karen Godnick
Richmond Public Interest Law Review
Strong patent protection limits access to HIV/AIDS drugs in developing countries where over five million people are in immediate need of these drugs. This comment summarizes the history of HIV/AIDS drugs and international patent law, how laws affect distribution of the drugs, and concludes by discussing public and private partnerships which could afford more access in developing countries.
Coining Children's Blood Into Capital: Can Precepts Of International Law End Economic Exploitation Of Children, Valerie L 'Herrou
Coining Children's Blood Into Capital: Can Precepts Of International Law End Economic Exploitation Of Children, Valerie L 'Herrou
Richmond Public Interest Law Review
Article 32 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child ("UN Convention") states that parties to the convention must "recognize the right of the child to be protected from economic exploitation and from performing any work that is likely to be hazardous or to interfere with the child's education, or to be harmful to the child's health or physical, mental, spiritual, moral or social development." Despite this well-intentioned document and several other treaties, conventions and protocols, millions of children around the world are subjected to varying degrees of economic exploitation, some in conditions that are akin to …
The Extradition Proceedings Against General Pinochet: A Case Study In The Emerging International System Of Criminal Justice, Lee _
Richmond Public Interest Law Review
The ruling of the House of Lords that General Pinochet can be extradited to Spain to stand trial for crimes against humanity lends support to the emerging theory of universal jurisdiction for certain crimes under international law. The following discussion of the elements of General Pinochet's case will show that the international community, by and large, is willing to sacrifice some national sovereignty in order to eradicate torture and other human rights violations. It will do so through an elucidation of the concepts of jus cogens, international ethics, head of state immunity, human rights crimes, universal jurisdiction, and extradition.