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Mail-Order Brides: Gilded Prostitution And The Legal Response, Eddy Meng
Mail-Order Brides: Gilded Prostitution And The Legal Response, Eddy Meng
University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform
This Note explores the international mail-order bride industry where women from Asia and other developing countries are trafficked to men in Western industrialized countries. The author discusses the commonalities between the mail-order bride traffic and other forms of sexual exploitation, as well as the cultural and historical forces and the gender, ethnic, and class subordination which together fuel the demand for Asian Pacific mail-order brides. In the United States, the potential for exploitation is made greater in that immigrant brides face a threat of deportation during the first two years of residence via immigration laws. Given the inequalities between consumer-husbands …
Universal Versus Islamic Human Rights: A Clash Of Cultures Or A Clash With A Construct?, Ann Elizabeth Mayer
Universal Versus Islamic Human Rights: A Clash Of Cultures Or A Clash With A Construct?, Ann Elizabeth Mayer
Michigan Journal of International Law
This article examines the recent trend proposing that Islam and Islamic culture mandate a distinctive approach to human rights. It offers critical assessments of selected civil and political rights in two recent products of this trend: (1) the 1990 Cairo Declaration on Human Rights in Islam, issued by the Organization of the Islamic Conference and endorsed by Iran and Saudi Arabia; and (2) the rights provisions in the Saudi Arabian Basic Law promulgated in 1992. These legislative initiatives will be examined in conjunction with constructs of an Islamic culture necessarily at odds with international human rights norms. These constructs have …
The Worldwide Market For Sex: A Review Of International And Regional Legal Prohibitions Regarding Trafficking In Women, Susan Jeanne Toepfer, Bryan Stuart Wells
The Worldwide Market For Sex: A Review Of International And Regional Legal Prohibitions Regarding Trafficking In Women, Susan Jeanne Toepfer, Bryan Stuart Wells
Michigan Journal of Gender & Law
This essay considers whether international treaty law is a useful weapon in the battle against the global sex trade. The introduction to this essay surveys the extent of global sex trafficking. Part I of this essay discusses the international legal conventions that address the issue of trafficking in women. Part II of this essay assesses the effectiveness of these international instruments and considers why they have failed to and the world sex trade. In Part III, this essay describes the European and Inter-American human rights systems, focusing upon substantive law in the regional systems that might be relevant to the …
Women's Human Rights: A Prospective Look, Donna Sullivan
Women's Human Rights: A Prospective Look, Donna Sullivan
Human Rights Brief
No abstract provided.
New Trend In Addressing Violence Against Women, Layli Miller Bashir
New Trend In Addressing Violence Against Women, Layli Miller Bashir
Human Rights Brief
No abstract provided.
Women's Reproductive Rights Advanced At Conference, Gabriel Eckstein
Women's Reproductive Rights Advanced At Conference, Gabriel Eckstein
Human Rights Brief
No abstract provided.
Wcl Human Rights Clinic Champions Women's Rights, Angela Collier
Wcl Human Rights Clinic Champions Women's Rights, Angela Collier
Human Rights Brief
No abstract provided.
The Legal Approach: Women's Rights As Human Rights, Rachael N. Pine
The Legal Approach: Women's Rights As Human Rights, Rachael N. Pine
Human Rights Brief
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Who Defines Women's Rights? A Third World Woman's Response, Azizah Al-Hibri
Who Defines Women's Rights? A Third World Woman's Response, Azizah Al-Hibri
Human Rights Brief
No abstract provided.