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A Human Rights Approach To Climate-Induced Displacement: A Case Study In Central America And Colombia, Camila Bustos, Juliana Vélez-Echeverri
A Human Rights Approach To Climate-Induced Displacement: A Case Study In Central America And Colombia, Camila Bustos, Juliana Vélez-Echeverri
Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications
The past decade was the warmest decade ever recorded. As climate impacts intensify, numbers of people displaced and in need of relocation increase. International law has yet to adapt to a changing climate and its implications for those most vulnerable. Experts still debate whether the existing refugee regime could provide a solution for those displaced by climate across international borders, while national governments continue to reckon with the domestic implications of internal displacement fueled by climate impacts. In this article, we apply a human rights lens to climate induced displacement, drawing from two case studies to highlight the human rights …
Fighting Narcoterrorism: A Counter Narcotic Approach To Homeland Security, Nicholas Levesque
Fighting Narcoterrorism: A Counter Narcotic Approach To Homeland Security, Nicholas Levesque
Master in Management for Public Safety and Homeland Security Professionals Master's Projects
The use of illicit drugs in the United States can be looked at as a homeland security concern for many reasons. The illicit drug trade challenges the security of our borders, fuels crime in many of our communities and when illicit drugs are abused by individuals, they can become unproductive members of society. This loss of productivity can be attributed to healthcare concerns, incarceration and the burden placed on the rest of society to make up for the loss. Terrorist organizations like Al-Qaeda have shown involvement in the illicit drug trade and use it as a means of funding their …
Justice Denied? The Adjudication Of Extradition Applications, Ann Powers
Justice Denied? The Adjudication Of Extradition Applications, Ann Powers
Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications
This article was prompted when a well-regarded LL.M. candidate at Pace Law School's Center for Environmental Legal Studies was arrested and subjected to extradition proceedings. Faculty, staff, and students became embroiled in efforts, ultimately successful, to challenge the extradition request. In doing so, they confronted the substantive and procedural barriers faced by an accused in current extradition processes and the significant potential for human rights abuses. Thus, this article, which analyzes current extradition law, updates what has been a slowly developing area of the law and proposes changes to address some of the shortfalls. Part II presents a brief history …
The Assault On International Bribery: Global Regulatory Expansion, Roy Girasa
The Assault On International Bribery: Global Regulatory Expansion, Roy Girasa
Faculty Working Papers
For more than two decades, the United States has been acting virtually alone in combating international bribery of government officials by agents of domestic corporations. Twenty years after the enactment of the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act in 1977 (the "Act"), the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (the "OECD"), under pressure from the U.S. and other sources, adopted a Convention on Combating Bribery of Foreign Public Officials in International Business Transactions (the "OECD Convention"). In Latin America, the Inter-American Convention Against Corruption (the "IA Convention") was adopted and opened for signature on March 29, 1996, in Caracas, Venezuela. In …
Human Rights And Non-State Actors, Thomas Michael Mcdonnell
Human Rights And Non-State Actors, Thomas Michael Mcdonnell
Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications
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