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America And The World: Human Rights At Home And Abroad., Joe W. (Chip) Pitts Iii

The Scholar: St. Mary's Law Review on Race and Social Justice

Multiple provisions in the Bill of Rights appear gutted around the last year. While abroad, Mr. Pitts received an outside perspective on American news which provided him with a new outlook on current events. The United Nations Social Forum brought voices into the United Nations which are not typically heard, such as poor and vulnerable populations not represented elsewhere. Concurrently, the Johannesburg Summit addressed similar issues. However, as of late, the American government suppresses the voices of the American people. The Patriot Act includes provisions which deter dissent, freedom of speech, and assembly. This Act also purported to give the …

Somebody's Daughter: The Domestic Trafficking Of Girls For The Commercial Sex Industry And The Power Of Love, Cheryl Hanna

William & Mary Journal of Race, Gender, and Social Justice

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Terrorism And Human Rights: Power, Culture, And Subordination, Makau Mutua

Buffalo Human Rights Law Review

This piece analyzes the effects of the global war on terror in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks. The author argues that under the pretext of a global war on terrorism, the United States has set out to dominate the globe in a campaign that will undoubtedly influence human rights, and diminish their respect and enforcement. Human rights will now be defined by the United States to exclude and narrow them while putting pressure on large international institutions such as the United Nations to subordinate itself to other American interests. Thinkers and advocates should work together to craft a …

The Role Of Compulsion In Islamic Conversion: Jihad, Dhimma And Ridda, Donna E. Arzt

Buffalo Human Rights Law Review

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Rights Integration In An Institutional Context: The Experience Of The Kenya Human Rights Commission, Willy Mutunga, Alamin Mazrui

Buffalo Human Rights Law Review

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Important Lessons From History, Wendy Brown-Scott

Buffalo Human Rights Law Review

Book review of Mark Curriden & Leroy Phillips, Jr.'s Contempt of Court: The Turn-Of-The_Century Lynching That Launched A hundred Years Of Federalism

Symbolic Rites: Examining The Adequacy Of Federal Legislation Addressing The Problem Of Female Excision In The United States, Christopher T. Paresi

Buffalo Human Rights Law Review

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Cloning And Reproductive Liberty, Francis J. Beckwith

Nevada Law Journal

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International Humanitarian Law From Nuremberg To Rome: The Weighty Precedents Of The International Criminal Tribunal For Rwanda, Kingsley Chiedu Moghalu

Pace International Law Review

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Missing Persons, Steven D. Smith

Nevada Law Journal

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Outlawing The Trade In Child Labor Products: Why The Gatt Article Xx Health Exception Authorizes Unilateral Sanctions , Matthew T. Mitro

American University Law Review

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Defending The Universality And Timelessness Of The Universal Declaration Of Human Rights: A View From The ‘Developing’ World, Shaista Shameem

Human Rights & Human Welfare

A review of:

Human Rights: Concepts, Contests, Contingencies edited by Austin Sarat and Thomas R. Kearns. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2001. 144pp.

Searching For Justice In An Unjust World, Sharon Healey

Human Rights & Human Welfare

A review of:

Stay the Hand of Vengeance by Jonathan Gary Bass. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000. 368pp.

and

For Humanity: Reflections of a War Crimes Prosecutor by Richard Goldstone. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2000. 152pp.

Russian Compliance With Articles Five And Six Of The European Convention Of Human Rights As A Barometer Of Legal Reform And Human Rights In Russia, Jeffrey Kahn

University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform

This Note examines two of Russia's obligations under the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR): the Article 5 right to liberty and security, and the Article 6 right to a fair trial to gauge Russian compliance with European human rights norms. These articles lie at the heart of systematic legal reform in the Russian Federation. This Note defends the thesis that the agonizingly slow progress of judicial reform and the advancement of human rights in Russia is a function of the inevitable lag of conceptual norms behind institutional reform. Part I explores the weak place of the rule of law …

Freedom Of Religion In Context, Guy Haarscher

BYU Law Review

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Religious Freedom In The Argentine Republic: Twenty Years After The Declaration On The Elimination Of Intolerance And Religious Discrimination, Juan G. Navarro Floria

BYU Law Review

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Religious Freedom Issues In Hungary, Balazs Schanda

BYU Law Review

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Religious Liberty In Pakistan: Law, Reality, And Perception (A Brief Synopsis), Farooq Hassan

BYU Law Review

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The Evolution Of Religious Freedom As A Universal Human Right: Examining The Role Of The 1981 United Nations Declaration On The Elimination Of All Forms Of Intolerance And Of Discrimination Based On Religion Or Belief, Derek H. Davis

BYU Law Review

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Religious Freedom And The Challenge Of Terrorism, Gordon H. Smith

BYU Law Review

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The Effect Of International Treaties On Religious Freedom In Mexico, Ricardo Hernandez-Forcada

BYU Law Review

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Religion, Church, And State In The Post-Communist Era: The Case Of Ukraine (With Special References To Orthodoxy And Human Rights Issues), Victor Yelensky

BYU Law Review

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Introduction To The Vienna Declaration And Program Of Action Of Africans And African Descendants, Vernellia R. Randall

Washington and Lee Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice

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Black V. Virginia553 S.E.2d 738 (Va. 2001), Deborah Tang

Washington and Lee Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice

No abstract provided.

Unintended Consequences Of United States' Foreign Drug Policy In Bolivia, Solimar Santos

University of Miami Inter-American Law Review

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Truth And Reconciliation Commissions: General Considerations And A Critical Comparison Of The Commissions Of Chile And El Salvador, Mark Vasallo

University of Miami Inter-American Law Review

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African Private Security Companies And The Alien Tort Claims Act: Could Multinational Oil And Mining Companies Be Liable?, Jennifer L. Heil

Northwestern Journal of International Law & Business

This paper focuses specifically on the possible liability under the ATCA of multinational oil and mining companies operating in Africa. First, it will examine the relationships between the multinational oil and mining companies, private security forces and African governments. In doing so, it will describe the actual activities and operations of the private security forces in conjunction with the oil and mining corhpanies. Second, this paper will outline the elements of liability under the ATCA. This will include a discussion of recent cases in which foreign nationals have sued multinational companies in the United States for alleged human rights abuses …

The Promise Of A Post-Genocide Constitution: Healing Rwandan Spirit Injuries, Adrien Katherine Wing, Mark Richard Johnson

Michigan Journal of Race and Law

This Article hopes to extend Critical Race Theory's social construction of race theory by emphasizing ethnicity as well as race. The Rwandans are undoubtedly within the so-called "Black race." Historically, they have also been socially constructed as consisting of different races and ethnicities, even though many scholars and Rwandans do not see ethnic, much less racial, distinctions. Some of these Rwandans who did see such differences participated in the genocide.

A Ghost Is Haunting Europe, Maria Grahn-Farley

Michigan Journal of International Law

Review of Responsible Selves: Women in the Nordic Legal Cultures (Kevät Nousiainen, Åsa Gunnarsson, Karin Lundström, & Johanna Niemi-Kiesiläinen eds.)

Truth As Right And Remedy In International Human Rights Experience, Thomas M. Antkowiak

Michigan Journal of International Law

This Note seeks to explore the origins, scope, and key possibilities of an evolving right to the truth. It will argue that truth is not only an essential component of the universally recognized "right to an effective remedy," but that it also serves as the gateway to a broader reparative framework necessary for victims of gross human rights abuse. The analysis shall span the Inter-American, European, and United Nations systems of human rights protection, and also will treat the burgeoning idea of the truth commission, a very prominent means of extra-judicial inquiry in contemporary transitional societies. At the conclusion, the …