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Honduran Campesinos In The Crosshairs, Lauren Carasik
Honduran Campesinos In The Crosshairs, Lauren Carasik
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Legacy Of A Massacre: The World Bank And The Chixoy Dam, Lauren Carasik
Legacy Of A Massacre: The World Bank And The Chixoy Dam, Lauren Carasik
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Haiti, Cholera, And The United Nations: Negligence And The Rule Of Law, Lauren Carasik
Haiti, Cholera, And The United Nations: Negligence And The Rule Of Law, Lauren Carasik
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Guatemala: Reconciliation Or Retrenchment?, Lauren Carasik
Guatemala: Reconciliation Or Retrenchment?, Lauren Carasik
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Justice Delayed 30 Years In Guatemala, Lauren Carasik, Grahame Russell
Justice Delayed 30 Years In Guatemala, Lauren Carasik, Grahame Russell
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Double-Edged Paring Knives: Human Rights Dilemmas For Special Populations, Giovanna Shay
Double-Edged Paring Knives: Human Rights Dilemmas For Special Populations, Giovanna Shay
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The United States makes up only 5 percent of the world's population, but it incarcerates 25 percent of the globe's prisoners. This unprecedented level of incarceration has brought increased attention to the problems of particular subsets of prisoners sometimes called "special populations." These groups include female prisoners; lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT), and questioning inmates; older prisoners; and prisoners with mental illness and physical disabilities. This Article discusses human rights dilemmas in the treatment of special populations in prison.
The Article surveys ABA Standards and Resolutions that bear on special populations. While ABA Standards do not have the force of …
Criminalized State: The International Criminal Court, The Responsibility To Protect, And Darfur, Republic Of Sudan, Matthew H. Charity
Criminalized State: The International Criminal Court, The Responsibility To Protect, And Darfur, Republic Of Sudan, Matthew H. Charity
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The international community continues to struggle with the question of what to do when a nation fails to protect its own people from systemic neglect, mistreatment, or even genocide. For many years, this debate pitted proponents of humanitarian intervention by a third-party against those who believe that all others must defer to the sovereign right of the state to control its own affairs and the affairs of its people. In the midst of this debate, the international community has adopted a middle road: insisting that states must acknowledge their responsibility to protect their populations and if the state manifestly fails …
Book Review: Elizabeth Wicks' Human Rights And Healthcare, Barbara A. Noah
Book Review: Elizabeth Wicks' Human Rights And Healthcare, Barbara A. Noah
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The Author reviews the book Human Rights and Healthcare, by Elizabeth Wicks and published by Hart Publishing, 2007. Although the book focuses mainly on rights within the United Kingdom, those familiar with healthcare and bioethics issues within the United States or elsewhere will find it an extremely useful comparative resource.
Protecting Transgender Families: Strategies For Advocates, Taylor Flynn
Protecting Transgender Families: Strategies For Advocates, Taylor Flynn
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For a transgender (trans) man or woman, what begins as the dissolution of a relationship may be transformed into a public nightmare in which the individual is forced to defend the authenticity of his or her gender in the face of relentless, brutal, and humiliating questions about the most intimate details of personal anatomy and sexual practices. This Article discusses this reality in the case of Michael Kantaras, a transsexual man in Clearwater, Florida in 2002.