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Recent Army Jag Corps Initiatives To Enhance Human Rights, Jeffrey F. Addicott Jan 1994

Recent Army Jag Corps Initiatives To Enhance Human Rights, Jeffrey F. Addicott

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The Army Judge Advocate General’s Corps (JAGC) has recently undertaken two significant initiatives. These initiatives are designed to enhance human rights training at the United States Army School of the Americas (SOA). First, in August of 1994, an Army judge advocate, Major Dennis Cruz-Perez, was assigned to a field grade officer staff position at the SOA. Second, the International and Operational Law Division, Office of The Judge Advocate General, has developed a new three-hour block of instruction designed to teach students how to conduct and institutionalize human rights training in their own militaries..

The development of a new block of …