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Markets And Women's International Human Rights, Elizabeth M. Schneider
Markets And Women's International Human Rights, Elizabeth M. Schneider
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From Nation State To Failed State: International Protection From Human Rights Abuses By Non-State Agents, Jennifer Moore
From Nation State To Failed State: International Protection From Human Rights Abuses By Non-State Agents, Jennifer Moore
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In her seminal 1951 work The Origins of Totalitarianism, the political philosopher Hannah Arendt examined historical developments in Europe during the period between the two World Wars and declared that "the transformation of the state from an instrument of the law into an instrument of the nation had been completed." While Arendt focused on threats to individual and minority rights posed by the repressive "nation-state," her critique also identified the complicity of an international legal system that accorded undue deference to sovereign prerogative. The collapse of the League of Nations, the ascendancy of the Nazi Party in Germany, and the …
All The Difference In The World: Listening And Hearing The Voices Of Women, Phoebe A. Haddon
All The Difference In The World: Listening And Hearing The Voices Of Women, Phoebe A. Haddon
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Forum Shopping For Human Rights, Laurence R. Helfer
Forum Shopping For Human Rights, Laurence R. Helfer
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The article analyzes a growing trend in international human rights law: the submission of petitions by aggrieved individuals to multiple human rights courts, tribunals, or treaty bodies, each of which is authorized to review the petition and to determine whether the individuals? rights have been violated. Most commentators have viewed this practice of "forum shopping for human rights" as a danger to be avoided. This article questions that conventional wisdom and offers in its place a re-envisioning of the human rights petition system. Although efficiency, finality and other concerns weigh against some varieties of duplicative review, this article argues that …
Medical Ethics And Human Rights: Legacies Of Nuremberg, George J. Annas, Michael A. Grodin
Medical Ethics And Human Rights: Legacies Of Nuremberg, George J. Annas, Michael A. Grodin
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Many of our most important human rights documents are the product of the world's horror during the carnage of World War II. The broadest and most powerful declaration of human rights, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, was adopted by the membership of the new United Nations in 1948. But there are also much more specific statements of the world's aspirations for all of its inhabitants. August 1997 marked the 50th anniversary of the conclusion of the trial of Nazi physicians at Nuremberg, a trial which has been variously designated as the "Doctors' Trial" and the "Medical Case."2 In …