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An American Gulag? Human Rights Groups Test The Limits Of Moral Equivalency, Kenneth Anderson Jun 2005

An American Gulag? Human Rights Groups Test The Limits Of Moral Equivalency, Kenneth Anderson

Popular Media

This 2005 article from the Weekly Standard criticizes the 2005 Amnesty International report and associated press releases and press conferences referring to the Guantanamo Bay detention facility as an American gulag. It more broadly criticizes the human rights movement for wanting it both ways - on the one hand, using extraordinarily inflammatory rhetoric such as raising the spectre of Soviet death camps, while on the other hand, calling for that very same, apparently deeply criminal regime, the Bush administration, to perform the tasks of human rights enforcement that the human rights movement would like to see performed elsewhere in the …


Report Of The Independent Expert On The Protection Of Human Rights And Fundamental Freedoms While Countering Terrorism, Robert K. Goldman Feb 2005

Report Of The Independent Expert On The Protection Of Human Rights And Fundamental Freedoms While Countering Terrorism, Robert K. Goldman

Reports

The Commission on Human Rights, in resolution 2004/87, decided to designate, from within existing resources, for a period of one year, an independent expert to assist the High Commissioner for Human Rights in the fulfillment of the mandate described in the resolution and, “taking fully into account the study requested in General Assembly resolution 58/187, as well as the discussions in the Assembly and the views of States thereon, to submit a report, through the High Commissioner, to the Commission at its sixty-first session on ways and means of strengthening the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms …


Inter-American System, Claudia Martin Jan 2005

Inter-American System, Claudia Martin

Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals

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Differing Conceptions Of Development And The Content Of International Development Law, Daniel D. Bradlow Jan 2005

Differing Conceptions Of Development And The Content Of International Development Law, Daniel D. Bradlow

Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals

International development law is the branch of international law that deals with the rights and duties of states and other actors in the development process. Its original content was premised on a particular generally accepted understanding of development. Under the pressure of the problems of development that arose during the 1970s and 1980s, this general agreement on the key issues in development disintegrated. As a consequence, the consensus on the content of international development law also began to break down.

Today, there are competing idealized views of development that shape the current debate about both development, and the content of …


Inter-American System, Diego Rodriguez-Pinzon Jan 2005

Inter-American System, Diego Rodriguez-Pinzon

Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals

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Post Operative Transsexuals' Right To Marriage, Sarah Leinicke Jan 2005

Post Operative Transsexuals' Right To Marriage, Sarah Leinicke

The Modern American

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Keynote Address, William H. Taft Jan 2005

Keynote Address, William H. Taft

American University International Law Review

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Introduction, Claudia Martin, Diego Rodriguez-Pinzon Jan 2005

Introduction, Claudia Martin, Diego Rodriguez-Pinzon

American University International Law Review

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Criminalizing Hate Speech: A Comment On The Ictr’S Judgment In The Prosecutor V. Nahimana, Et Al., Diane F. Orentlicher Jan 2005

Criminalizing Hate Speech: A Comment On The Ictr’S Judgment In The Prosecutor V. Nahimana, Et Al., Diane F. Orentlicher

Human Rights Brief

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United Nations Update, Nicholas Leddy Jan 2005

United Nations Update, Nicholas Leddy

Human Rights Brief

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The Peruvian Truth And Reconciliation Commission’S Treatment Of Sexual Violence Against Women, Julissa Mantilla Falcón Jan 2005

The Peruvian Truth And Reconciliation Commission’S Treatment Of Sexual Violence Against Women, Julissa Mantilla Falcón

Human Rights Brief

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Updates From The Regional Human Rights Systems, Tim Curry, Nerina Cevra, Erin Palmer Jan 2005

Updates From The Regional Human Rights Systems, Tim Curry, Nerina Cevra, Erin Palmer

Human Rights Brief

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Updates From The Regional Human Rights Systems , Christian De Vos, Jennifer Podkul, Tim Curry Jan 2005

Updates From The Regional Human Rights Systems , Christian De Vos, Jennifer Podkul, Tim Curry

Human Rights Brief

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Prologue, Claudio Grossman Jan 2005

Prologue, Claudio Grossman

American University International Law Review

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Misinterpreting The Prohibition Of Torture Under International Law: The Office Of Legal Counsel Memorandum, Louis-Philippe F. Rouillard Jan 2005

Misinterpreting The Prohibition Of Torture Under International Law: The Office Of Legal Counsel Memorandum, Louis-Philippe F. Rouillard

American University International Law Review

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Solitary Confinement And International Human Rights: Why The U.S. Prison System Fails Global Standards, Elizabeth Vasiliades Jan 2005

Solitary Confinement And International Human Rights: Why The U.S. Prison System Fails Global Standards, Elizabeth Vasiliades

American University International Law Review

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La Noción De Tortura Y Otros Tratos O Penas Crueles, Inhumanos O Degradantes En El Marco Del Comité De Derechos Humanos Y El Comité Contra La Tortura De Las Naciones Unidas, David Fernández Puyana Jan 2005

La Noción De Tortura Y Otros Tratos O Penas Crueles, Inhumanos O Degradantes En El Marco Del Comité De Derechos Humanos Y El Comité Contra La Tortura De Las Naciones Unidas, David Fernández Puyana

American University International Law Review

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Seeking Synchronicity: Thoughts On The Role Of Domestic Law Enforcement In Counterterrorism, Jeff Breinholt Jan 2005

Seeking Synchronicity: Thoughts On The Role Of Domestic Law Enforcement In Counterterrorism, Jeff Breinholt

American University International Law Review

No abstract provided.


Islam, The Law Of War, And The U.S. Soldier, Manuel E.F. Supervielle Jan 2005

Islam, The Law Of War, And The U.S. Soldier, Manuel E.F. Supervielle

American University International Law Review

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Lessons Learned: Building On The Success Of The Current International Tribunal Framework To Develop The Next Era Of War Crimes Tribunals , Aryeh Neier Jan 2005

Lessons Learned: Building On The Success Of The Current International Tribunal Framework To Develop The Next Era Of War Crimes Tribunals , Aryeh Neier

American University International Law Review

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Operation Murambatsvina: A Crime Against Humanity Under The Rome Statute? , Jeff Nicolai Jan 2005

Operation Murambatsvina: A Crime Against Humanity Under The Rome Statute? , Jeff Nicolai

American University International Law Review

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The Human Right To Water: Legal And Policy Dimensions By Salman M.A. Salman And Siobhan Mcinerney-Lankford, Kristen Mcgeeney, Melanie Nakagawa Jan 2005

The Human Right To Water: Legal And Policy Dimensions By Salman M.A. Salman And Siobhan Mcinerney-Lankford, Kristen Mcgeeney, Melanie Nakagawa

Sustainable Development Law & Policy

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The Constitutional Right To Water In Uruguay, Rachael Moshman Jan 2005

The Constitutional Right To Water In Uruguay, Rachael Moshman

Sustainable Development Law & Policy

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Obligations Of State And Non-State Actors Regarding The Human Right To Water Under The South African Constitution, Anna R. Welch Jan 2005

Obligations Of State And Non-State Actors Regarding The Human Right To Water Under The South African Constitution, Anna R. Welch

Sustainable Development Law & Policy

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Improving Legislation Through Social Analysis: A Case Study In Methodology From The Water Sector In Uzbekistan, Jonathan Brown, Ayse Kudat, Kristen Mcgeeney Jan 2005

Improving Legislation Through Social Analysis: A Case Study In Methodology From The Water Sector In Uzbekistan, Jonathan Brown, Ayse Kudat, Kristen Mcgeeney

Sustainable Development Law & Policy

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A Personal Account: Initiating The Mcnutt Water Project In Saboba, Ghana, Ross Weber Jan 2005

A Personal Account: Initiating The Mcnutt Water Project In Saboba, Ghana, Ross Weber

Sustainable Development Law & Policy

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Inuit Circumpolar Conference V. Bush Administration: Why The Arctic Peoples Claim The United States' Role In Climate Change Has Violated Their Fundamental Human Rights And Threatens Their Very Existence, Juliette Niehuss Jan 2005

Inuit Circumpolar Conference V. Bush Administration: Why The Arctic Peoples Claim The United States' Role In Climate Change Has Violated Their Fundamental Human Rights And Threatens Their Very Existence, Juliette Niehuss

Sustainable Development Law & Policy

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Editors' Note, Kelly Rain, Kirk Herbertson Jan 2005

Editors' Note, Kelly Rain, Kirk Herbertson

Sustainable Development Law & Policy

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Bridging The Gap: How The Millennium Development Goals Are Uniting The Fight Against Global Poverty, Kemal Dervis Jan 2005

Bridging The Gap: How The Millennium Development Goals Are Uniting The Fight Against Global Poverty, Kemal Dervis

Sustainable Development Law & Policy

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Volume 6 Issue 1, Sustainable Development Law & Policy Jan 2005

Volume 6 Issue 1, Sustainable Development Law & Policy

Sustainable Development Law & Policy

No abstract provided.