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Modern Slavery And A Reconstructed Civil Rights Agenda, Baher Azmy
Modern Slavery And A Reconstructed Civil Rights Agenda, Baher Azmy
Fordham Law Review
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Preventing, Punishing And Eliminating Terrorism In The Western Hemisphere: A Post-9/11 Inter-American Treaty, Enrique Lagos, Timothy D. Rudy
Preventing, Punishing And Eliminating Terrorism In The Western Hemisphere: A Post-9/11 Inter-American Treaty, Enrique Lagos, Timothy D. Rudy
Fordham International Law Journal
Part I of this Article will provide a brief background to the fight against terrorism as seen from an inter-American legal and institutional standpoint. Part II will discuss the more significant details of the Convention and the negotiations in the Permanent Council's Working Group that produced it. In II(A), the authors review the conflicting views among delegates about whether the OAS should have been negotiating a “comprehensive” anti-terrorism treaty (complete with a legal definition of terrorist acts) or follow the suggestion of the United States and adopt a less ambitious treaty providing some “added value” (by incorporating by reference the …
The Challenges Of Fighting Global Organized Crime In Latin America, Luz Estella Nagle
The Challenges Of Fighting Global Organized Crime In Latin America, Luz Estella Nagle
Fordham International Law Journal
This Article examines organized crime in Iberoamerica. It also examines the international mechanisms implemented to combat it, specifically the 1988 United Nations Convention Against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances, the 1996 Organization of American States Inter-American Convention against Corruption of 1996, and the United Nations Convention on Transnational Organized Crime of 2000. It then examines whether these efforts have been successful or unsuccessful, and whether multilateral instruments are a formidable tool in the war against international organized crime or merely toothless tigers.