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Ghana's Slaves To The Gods , Sarah C. Aird

Human Rights Brief

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Review Of The Inter-American Human Rights Digest , Juan M. Amaya-Castro

Human Rights Brief

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Unocal Corporation Can Be Liable For Human Rights Abuses In Burma , Carlyn Carey

Human Rights Brief

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India's Failure To Adequately Protect Refugees , H. Knox Thames

Human Rights Brief

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The Rule Of Law In Jeopardy In Uzbekistan , Heather Fox

Human Rights Brief

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

Human Rights Brief

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Promoting Human Rights Education In The Americas , Natasha Parassram Concepcion

Human Rights Brief

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News From The Inter-American System , Cathleen Caron

Human Rights Brief

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Human And Environmental Rights In The Trial Of Alexander Nikitin, Stephen L. Kass

Human Rights Brief

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Democracy And Disenfranchisement In Washington, D.C., Jamin B. Raskin, Cathleen Caron

Human Rights Brief

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News From The Inter-American System, Nicole Grimm

Human Rights Brief

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

Human Rights Brief

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Proceed With Caution: U.S. Policy Toward A Global Ban On Landmines, Anne Theodore Briggs

Human Rights Brief

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Prosecuting Pinochet In Spain , Richard J. Wilson

Human Rights Brief

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Five Murdered Street Children In Guatemala: A Precedent Before The Inter-American Court Of Human Rights, Selina Kossen

Human Rights Brief

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The World Bank Inspection Panel: A Record Of The First International Accountability Mechanism And Its Role For Human Rights, Sabine Schlemmer-Schulte

Human Rights Brief

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Legislative Focus: The Human Rights Information Act, Heather Fox

Human Rights Brief

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News From The Inter-American System, Human Rights Brief

Human Rights Brief

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Asylum In The United States: Expedited Removal Process Threatens To Violate International Norms, Cathleen Caron

Human Rights Brief

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

Human Rights Brief

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Legislative Focus: The International And Religious Freedom Act Of 1998, Tom Lynch

Human Rights Brief

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Precedent-Setting Ngo Campaign Saves The World Bank's Inspection Panel, Daniel Bradlow

Human Rights Brief

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Belarus Government Hinders Freedom Of Expression, Tom Lynch

Human Rights Brief

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The World’S Youngest Political Prisoner, Richard Klein

Scholarly Works

Every participant at an international human rights conference in June 1998 received a small pamphlet published by Tibetan supporters of Tibetan Buddhism's highest-ranking figure, the Dalai Lama. Entitled "The World's Youngest Political Prisoner," the pamphlet makes a plea for support for a young boy, now nine years old, who the Chinese government has allegedly kidnapped and detained. The Dalai Lama, who has been living in exile for forty years, claims the boy is the eleventh reincarnation of the Panchen Lama, the second holiest individual in Tibetan Buddhism. This battle over the identification of the reincarnation of a holy man is …

Dignity And Discrimination: Toward A Pluralistic Understanding Of Workplace Harassment, Rosa Ehrenreich Brooks

Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works

Part I of this article briefly examines some of the drawbacks and inconsistencies of Title VII sexual harassment jurisprudence and shows that Title VII does not provide an adequate framework for understanding many common forms of workplace harassment. Title VII is unquestionably a critical means of fighting against workplace discrimination; however, by emphasizing discrimination at the expense of dignity, the Title VII workplace harassment paradigm provides an incomplete understanding of the wrongs of workplace harassment.

Part II of this article asserts the importance of an approach to sexual harassment that distinguishes between the nature of the harm of workplace sexual …

Suffer The Little Children: Justifying Same-Sex Marriage From The Perspective Of A Child Of The Union, Lewis A. Silverman

Scholarly Works

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From Nation State To Failed State: International Protection From Human Rights Abuses By Non-State Agents, Jennifer Moore

Faculty Scholarship

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 …

Sexual Orientation & Human Rights In American Religious Discourse, Gerard V. Bradley

Journal Articles

Sexual Orientation & Human Rights in American Religious Discourse, edited by Saul M. Olyan and Martha Nussbaum (Oxford, 260 pp., $29.95)

The editors of this volume fear that "reasoned debate" about homosexuality is imperiled. Indeed Martha Nussbaum in her introduction reports that she was "surprised" to "discover" that she could engage in such debate with religious thinkers who take a less permissive view than she in the Colorado Amendment Two "gay-rights" litigation.

Brief Of Intervenor, Women’S Legal Education And Action Fund (Leaf), Ferrel V. Ontario, Laura Spitz

Faculty Scholarship

The issues in this appeal are whether Bill 8, An Act to Repeal Job Quotas and Restore Merit-Based Employment Practices in Ontario ("Bill 8''), contravenes section 15(1) of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms (the "Charter''), and, if so, whether the contravention is justified under section I of the Charter. This brief reviews the Government's repeal of the Federal Emplyment Equity Act (EEA). This repeal impairs designated groups to the greatest extent possible by removing all of the mechanisms which are necessary to remedy systemic discrimination in employment. Additionally, where discrimination is effected by the wholesale repeal of human …

Spare The Rod, Embrace Our Humanity: Toward A New Legal Regime Prohibiting Corporal Punishment Of Children, Susan H. Bitensky

University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform

This article proceeds from the simple premise that hitting children hurts them-even when the hitting does not rise to the level of child abuse as traditionally conceived. There is convincing evidence that corporal punishment is a hidden cruelty in child rearing that has serious adverse consequences for its victims and society at large. Yet forty-nine states permit parental corporal punishment of children and approximately half of the states permit such punishment in elementary and secondary schools The main purpose of this Article is to question the advisability of continuing the legalized status of corporal punishment of children in the United …