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Kosovo: An Application Of The Principle Of Self-Determination, Jennifer P. Harris Jan 1999

Kosovo: An Application Of The Principle Of Self-Determination, Jennifer P. Harris

Human Rights Brief

No abstract provided.


Kosovo: History Of A Human Rights Crisis Part One Of A Two Part Series On The Kosovo Crisis, Sarah Aird Jan 1999

Kosovo: History Of A Human Rights Crisis Part One Of A Two Part Series On The Kosovo Crisis, Sarah Aird

Human Rights Brief

No abstract provided.


Legislative Focus: The Human Rights Information Act, Heather Fox Jan 1999

Legislative Focus: The Human Rights Information Act, Heather Fox

Human Rights Brief

No abstract provided.


Legislative Focus: Attempts To Close The United States Army School Of The Americas , Barbara Cochrane Alexander Jan 1999

Legislative Focus: Attempts To Close The United States Army School Of The Americas , Barbara Cochrane Alexander

Human Rights Brief

No abstract provided.


Legislative Watch, Human Rights Brief Jan 1999

Legislative Watch, Human Rights Brief

Human Rights Brief

No abstract provided.


Intellectual Property, Human Rights & Sovereignty: New Dilemmas In International Law Posed By The Recognition Of Indigenous Knowledge And The Conservation Of Biodiversity, Rosemary J. Coombe Oct 1998

Intellectual Property, Human Rights & Sovereignty: New Dilemmas In International Law Posed By The Recognition Of Indigenous Knowledge And The Conservation Of Biodiversity, Rosemary J. Coombe

Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies

No abstract provided.


The Birth Of The Universal Declaration Of Human Rights, Michael Cooper Sep 1998

The Birth Of The Universal Declaration Of Human Rights, Michael Cooper

Michael D. Cooper, Esq.

This short article, written for an audience of U.S. based social science teachers, reviews the historical circumstances surrounding the drafting of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which the United Nations General Assembly adopted on December 10, 1948. The narrative focuses attention on the negotiating process and, in particular, Eleanor Roosevelt’s role as Chair of the U.N. Commission on Human Rights, which drafted the landmark document.


Trends. Black, White, And Shades Of Grey: A Perspective On Kosovo, Ibpp Editor Mar 1998

Trends. Black, White, And Shades Of Grey: A Perspective On Kosovo, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

The author discusses the brutal crackdowns by Serbian police and paramilitary forces against individuals of Albanian ethnicity in Kosovo province.


Trends. Human Rights In The People's Republic Of China: On Rewards And Leverage, Ibpp Editor Mar 1998

Trends. Human Rights In The People's Republic Of China: On Rewards And Leverage, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

The author discusses the Clinton administration's announcement that it will not sponsor this year's resolution before the United Nations Human Rights Commission in Geneva that would condemn the People's Republic of China (PRC) for human rights violations.


Legislative Focus: The Hate Crimes Prevention Act, Mair Mccafferty Jan 1998

Legislative Focus: The Hate Crimes Prevention Act, Mair Mccafferty

Human Rights Brief

No abstract provided.


Legislative Watch, Human Rights Brief Jan 1998

Legislative Watch, Human Rights Brief

Human Rights Brief

No abstract provided.


Strange Bedfellows: Abraham Maslow As Defender Of Human Rights Violations, Jiang Zemin As Humanist, Ibpp Editor Nov 1997

Strange Bedfellows: Abraham Maslow As Defender Of Human Rights Violations, Jiang Zemin As Humanist, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article describes an instance in which humanistic psychological theory supports the rationale for behavior frequently linked with human rights violations.


Inconsistency As Consistency: An Optimal Policy For Human Rights, Ibpp Editor Oct 1997

Inconsistency As Consistency: An Optimal Policy For Human Rights, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article contrasts two common cognitive approaches employed by United States (US) politicians in furthering human rights throughout the world.


Dehumanising The Human Rights, Maurya Vijay Chandra Jun 1997

Dehumanising The Human Rights, Maurya Vijay Chandra

Maurya Vijay Chandra

Two submissive souls appearing docile to the core--one 14 year old Manoj with his wrist in one of the hand cuffs while another wrist locked up with that of Jawahir, a 30 year old lean and thin man. These unusual mates stepped down from an Auto with a constable. I say mates because they were sharing the load of the iron chain wrapped around in layers. We could not believe ourselves that all this could happen in the heart of the capital, at Deen Dayal Upadhyay Hospital, Delhi.


The United Nations Convention Of The Rights Of The Child: A Feminist Landmark, Cynthia Price Cohen Apr 1997

The United Nations Convention Of The Rights Of The Child: A Feminist Landmark, Cynthia Price Cohen

William & Mary Journal of Race, Gender, and Social Justice

The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child,1 adopted by the General Assembly on November 20, 1989, is a ground-breaking human rights treaty for many reasons. It had the largest number of signatories on the day that it was opened for signature.2 It went into force more quickly than any other human rights treaty;3 it reached near-universal ratification by mid-1996;4 and it protects the entire range of human rights: civilpolitical, economic-social-cultural, and humanitarian.5 In addition, the Convention's monitoring mechanism gives unique powers to its monitoring body, the Committee on the Rights of the Child.6 Unfortunately, these achievements have …


Major Problems Of International Refugee Law, Wondwossen Lemma Kidane Jan 1997

Major Problems Of International Refugee Law, Wondwossen Lemma Kidane

LLM Theses and Essays

This thesis introduces the history behind the legal term “refugee” with the emphasis on the abstract and altogether ambiguous definition, international discrepancies, and the United Nations’ Convention of Status relating to Refugees adopted in 1951. The purpose of the thesis is to highlight the shortcomings of the Convention starting with the legal definition of a refugee then continuing to inherent defects of refugee law, problems of the exclusion/secession of refugee status as stated in the Convention, domestic application of the Convention, and finally some advances in points of suggestion.


Federal Courts And World Civil Society, Gordon A. Christenson Jan 1996

Federal Courts And World Civil Society, Gordon A. Christenson

Faculty Articles and Other Publications

This article proposes that in all international civil litigation federal judges should use international and foreign law pragmatically as an aid to decisions which further the substantive values of "world civil society." These values are similar to those of civil society in a federal republic with an elaborate bill of rights - to preserve voluntary associations of human dignity and enterprise whose spirit transcends the public order of sovereign states.


(Dis)Assembling Rights Of Women Workers Along The Global Assembly Line: Human Rights And The Garment Industry Symposium: Political Lawyering: Conversations On Progressive Social Change, Laura Ho, Catherine Powell, Leti Volpp Jan 1996

(Dis)Assembling Rights Of Women Workers Along The Global Assembly Line: Human Rights And The Garment Industry Symposium: Political Lawyering: Conversations On Progressive Social Change, Laura Ho, Catherine Powell, Leti Volpp

Faculty Scholarship

Some observers would like to explain away sweatshops as immigrants exploiting other immigrants, as "cultural, or as the importation of a form of exploitation that normally does not happen here but occurs elsewhere, in the "Third World." While the public was shocked by the discovery at El Monte, garment workers and garment worker advocates have for years been describing abuses in the garment industry and have ascribed responsibility for such abuses to manufacturers and retailers who control the industry. Sweatshops, like the one in El Monte, are a home-grown problem with peculiarly American roots. Since the inception of the garment …


Anti-Essentialism, Relativism, And Human Rights , Tracy E. Higgins Jan 1996

Anti-Essentialism, Relativism, And Human Rights , Tracy E. Higgins

Faculty Scholarship

Confronted with the challenge of cultural relativism, feminism faces divergent paths, neither of which seems to lead out of the woods of patriarchy. The first path, leading to simple tolerance of cultural difference, is too broad. To follow it would require feminists to ignore pervasive limits on women's freedom in the name of an autonomy that exists for women in theory only. The other path, leading to objective condemnation of cultural practices, is too narrow. To follow it would require feminists to dismiss the culturally distinct experiences of women as false consciousness. Yet to forge an alternative path is difficult, …


The Need For Humanitarian Intervention In Central Africa, Brian Smith Jan 1996

The Need For Humanitarian Intervention In Central Africa, Brian Smith

Human Rights Brief

No abstract provided.


Female Genital Excision And The Implications Of Federal Prohibition, Blake M. Guy Oct 1995

Female Genital Excision And The Implications Of Federal Prohibition, Blake M. Guy

William & Mary Journal of Race, Gender, and Social Justice

No abstract provided.


The Right To Seek Asylum: A Dwindling Right?, Fatimah Mateen, Brian Tittemore Jan 1995

The Right To Seek Asylum: A Dwindling Right?, Fatimah Mateen, Brian Tittemore

Human Rights Brief

No abstract provided.


Peace, Human Rights And Accountability -- The Need For A New Doctrine On International Intervention, Juan E. Méndez Jan 1995

Peace, Human Rights And Accountability -- The Need For A New Doctrine On International Intervention, Juan E. Méndez

Human Rights Brief

No abstract provided.


Human Rights And The Structure Of Security Forces In Constitutional Orders: The Case Of Ethiopia, James C. N. Paul Aug 1994

Human Rights And The Structure Of Security Forces In Constitutional Orders: The Case Of Ethiopia, James C. N. Paul

William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal

No abstract provided.


World Bank Creates Inspection Panel, Steven T. Weston Jan 1994

World Bank Creates Inspection Panel, Steven T. Weston

Human Rights Brief

No abstract provided.


International War Crimes Tribunal For The Former Yugoslavia, Lois Tuttle, Ayesha Qayyum Jan 1994

International War Crimes Tribunal For The Former Yugoslavia, Lois Tuttle, Ayesha Qayyum

Human Rights Brief

No abstract provided.


War Crimes Tribunal Is An Imperative, Aryeh Neier Jan 1994

War Crimes Tribunal Is An Imperative, Aryeh Neier

Human Rights Brief

No abstract provided.


War Crimes Trials -- Not A Good Idea, Herman Schwartz Jan 1994

War Crimes Trials -- Not A Good Idea, Herman Schwartz

Human Rights Brief

No abstract provided.


Transcending Community: Some Thoughts On Havel And Bergson, Brian Slattery Jan 1993

Transcending Community: Some Thoughts On Havel And Bergson, Brian Slattery

Articles & Book Chapters

No abstract provided.


Transcending Community: Some Thoughts On Havel And Bergson, Brian Slattery Dec 1992

Transcending Community: Some Thoughts On Havel And Bergson, Brian Slattery

Brian Slattery

No abstract provided.