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Universal Versus Islamic Human Rights: A Clash Of Cultures Or A Clash With A Construct?, Ann Elizabeth Mayer Jan 1994

Universal Versus Islamic Human Rights: A Clash Of Cultures Or A Clash With A Construct?, Ann Elizabeth Mayer

Michigan Journal of International Law

This article examines the recent trend proposing that Islam and Islamic culture mandate a distinctive approach to human rights. It offers critical assessments of selected civil and political rights in two recent products of this trend: (1) the 1990 Cairo Declaration on Human Rights in Islam, issued by the Organization of the Islamic Conference and endorsed by Iran and Saudi Arabia; and (2) the rights provisions in the Saudi Arabian Basic Law promulgated in 1992. These legislative initiatives will be examined in conjunction with constructs of an Islamic culture necessarily at odds with international human rights norms. These constructs have …

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Ngo Advocates For Rights Of People With Mental Disabilities, Fatimah Mateen Jan 1994

Ngo Advocates For Rights Of People With Mental Disabilities, Fatimah Mateen

Human Rights Brief

No abstract provided.

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

World Bank Creates Inspection Panel, Steven T. Weston

Human Rights Brief

No abstract provided.

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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.

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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.

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Report Exposes Problems Within Peru's Judicial System, Antonio Maldonado, Diego Rodriguez Jan 1994

Report Exposes Problems Within Peru's Judicial System, Antonio Maldonado, Diego Rodriguez

Human Rights Brief

No abstract provided.

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Suriname Faces Past Human Rights Violations: The Gangaram-Panday Case, Claudia Martin, Françoise Roth Jan 1994

Suriname Faces Past Human Rights Violations: The Gangaram-Panday Case, Claudia Martin, Françoise Roth

Human Rights Brief

No abstract provided.

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Chiapas Delegation Concludes Historical Repression Of Indigenous People Must Be Addressed, Sharon Healey Jan 1994

Chiapas Delegation Concludes Historical Repression Of Indigenous People Must Be Addressed, Sharon Healey

Human Rights Brief

No abstract provided.

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Schwartz Advocates For Minority Rights Before Un; Wcl Hosts Conference On The Inter-American Human Rights System, Human Rights Brief Jan 1994

Schwartz Advocates For Minority Rights Before Un; Wcl Hosts Conference On The Inter-American Human Rights System, Human Rights Brief

Human Rights Brief

No abstract provided.

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Human Rights First, Richard Dicker Jan 1994

Human Rights First, Richard Dicker

Human Rights Brief

No abstract provided.

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More Bull From The China Shop, Wendell L. Willkie Jan 1994

More Bull From The China Shop, Wendell L. Willkie

Human Rights Brief

No abstract provided.

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International Human Rights Law Clinic Provides "Hands On" Experience, Steven Weston Jan 1994

International Human Rights Law Clinic Provides "Hands On" Experience, Steven Weston

Human Rights Brief

No abstract provided.

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Women's Human Rights: A Prospective Look, Donna Sullivan Jan 1994

Women's Human Rights: A Prospective Look, Donna Sullivan

Human Rights Brief

No abstract provided.

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New Trend In Addressing Violence Against Women, Layli Miller Bashir Jan 1994

New Trend In Addressing Violence Against Women, Layli Miller Bashir

Human Rights Brief

No abstract provided.

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Women's Reproductive Rights Advanced At Conference, Gabriel Eckstein Jan 1994

Women's Reproductive Rights Advanced At Conference, Gabriel Eckstein

Human Rights Brief

No abstract provided.

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Prosecutor Goldstone Offers Views On War Crimes Tribunal, Rochus Pronk Jan 1994

Prosecutor Goldstone Offers Views On War Crimes Tribunal, Rochus Pronk

Human Rights Brief

No abstract provided.

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Wcl Human Rights Clinic Champions Women's Rights, Angela Collier Jan 1994

Wcl Human Rights Clinic Champions Women's Rights, Angela Collier

Human Rights Brief

No abstract provided.

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The Legal Approach: Women's Rights As Human Rights, Rachael N. Pine Jan 1994

The Legal Approach: Women's Rights As Human Rights, Rachael N. Pine

Human Rights Brief

No abstract provided.

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Who Defines Women's Rights? A Third World Woman's Response, Azizah Al-Hibri Jan 1994

Who Defines Women's Rights? A Third World Woman's Response, Azizah Al-Hibri

Human Rights Brief

No abstract provided.

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Queer Intersectionality And The Failure Of Recent Lesbian And Gay "Victories", Darren Rosenblum Jan 1994

Queer Intersectionality And The Failure Of Recent Lesbian And Gay "Victories", Darren Rosenblum

Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications

Part I of this essay will introduce the queer theories underlying my critique and will outline the discrete positioning of lesbian and gay identity and community which labels these cases “victories.” The intersectionality of queer identity is the key blind spot in the litigation model. The queer continuum, a re-conceptualization of Adrienne Rich's lesbian continuum, delineates the spectrum of queer identity. Part II will explore the facts, issues and holdings of these four cases. My examination of these cases will reveal how they grant some rights to “but-for” queers, who, “but-for” their being lesbian or gay, would be “perfect citizens.” …

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The Worldwide Market For Sex: A Review Of International And Regional Legal Prohibitions Regarding Trafficking In Women, Susan Jeanne Toepfer, Bryan Stuart Wells Jan 1994

The Worldwide Market For Sex: A Review Of International And Regional Legal Prohibitions Regarding Trafficking In Women, Susan Jeanne Toepfer, Bryan Stuart Wells

Michigan Journal of Gender & Law

This essay considers whether international treaty law is a useful weapon in the battle against the global sex trade. The introduction to this essay surveys the extent of global sex trafficking. Part I of this essay discusses the international legal conventions that address the issue of trafficking in women. Part II of this essay assesses the effectiveness of these international instruments and considers why they have failed to and the world sex trade. In Part III, this essay describes the European and Inter-American human rights systems, focusing upon substantive law in the regional systems that might be relevant to the …

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Israel's Forty-Five Year Emergency: Are There Time Limits To Derogations From Human Rights Obligations?, John Quigley Jan 1994

Israel's Forty-Five Year Emergency: Are There Time Limits To Derogations From Human Rights Obligations?, John Quigley

Michigan Journal of International Law

This article analyzes the permissibility of such a derogation under the Covenant and under general international law. Part I of this article outlines the historical development of Israel's declaration of a continuous state of emergency and its justification for detention without trial. Part II examines international rules on detention and derogation. Part III establishes a standard for declaring a state of emergency and applies this standard to Israel's declaration, with respect both to Israel's own territory and to the Palestinian territories occupied by Israel. Finally, Part IV inquires whether Israel will apply the Covenant as a matter of domestic law.

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A Nation At Prayer, A Nation In Hate: Apartheid In South Africa, Tamara Rice Lave Jan 1994

A Nation At Prayer, A Nation In Hate: Apartheid In South Africa, Tamara Rice Lave

Articles

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Human Rights And Most-Favored-Nation Tariff Rates For Products From The People's Republic Of China, Randall Green Jan 1994

Human Rights And Most-Favored-Nation Tariff Rates For Products From The People's Republic Of China, Randall Green

Seattle University Law Review

Because there is an historical link between the economic power possessed by any group of people and the political rights enjoyed by that group, this Article argues that the best way for the United States to promote human rights in China is to assist China's economic development. This argument is supported by logic (e.g., demonstration of cause and effect) as well as by example (e.g., the recent histories of Korea and Taiwan). Part II of this Article takes a detailed look at what MFN status really means and looks at the history of U.S. grants of MFN status to China. …

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Dowry Death: A Violation Of The Right To Life Under Article Six Of The International Covenant On Civil And Political Rights, Angela K. Carlson-Whitley Jan 1994

Dowry Death: A Violation Of The Right To Life Under Article Six Of The International Covenant On Civil And Political Rights, Angela K. Carlson-Whitley

Seattle University Law Review

By failing to effectively prevent dowry deaths, India, as a party to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), violates the "right to life" as expressed in Article 6(1) and protected by Article 2. Part II of this Comment describes the phenomenon of dowry death generally and explains the origins of dowry and its relatively recent transformation into a means of extortion by the groom and his family. In addition, this Part examines the laws enacted by India in response to the growing incidence of dowry deaths. Finally, Part II explains why these positive laws fail to solve …

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Using International Human Rights Law To Advance Queer Rights: A Case Study For The American Declaration Of The Rights And Duties Of Man, 55 Ohio St. L.J. 649 (1994), Mark E. Wojcik Jan 1994

Using International Human Rights Law To Advance Queer Rights: A Case Study For The American Declaration Of The Rights And Duties Of Man, 55 Ohio St. L.J. 649 (1994), Mark E. Wojcik

UIC Law Open Access Faculty Scholarship

In addition to violating various provisions of federal and state constitutions, anti-gay ballot initiatives may violate international human rights norms. I see three reasons to invoke international human rights to challenge these initiatives. First, international human rights norms place the struggle for gay and lesbian rights in its proper context as a struggle for human rights. Second, some of the international human rights instruments provide both a source of legal obligation and an additional forum to challenge anti-gay ballot initiatives. Third and finally, if lesbian and gay activists in the United States establish that documents such as the American Declaration …

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Hate Crimes, Homosexuals, And The Constitution, Anthony S. Winer Jan 1994

Hate Crimes, Homosexuals, And The Constitution, Anthony S. Winer

Faculty Scholarship

This Article begins with an analysis of certain features of the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment and demonstrates that this clause establishes a fundamental right to the equal benefit of laws protecting personal security. Laws protecting personal security must be applied evenhandedly. Any discriminatory application of such laws is presumptively invalid under the Equal Protection Clause. This Article next shows that gay men and lesbians are among the most common victims of hate crime, that hate crimes against gays and lesbians are significant, persistent and widespread, and that gays and lesbians have a substantial stake in the manner …

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Fundamental Rights In The "Gray" Area: The Right Of Privacy Under The Minnesota Constitution, Michael K. Steenson Jan 1994

Fundamental Rights In The "Gray" Area: The Right Of Privacy Under The Minnesota Constitution, Michael K. Steenson

Faculty Scholarship

This Article explores the constitutional aspects of Minnesota privacy law. Part II briefly explains federal privacy law to provide a baseline for consideration of privacy law in Minnesota. Part III examines the right of privacy as it has evolved in the Minnesota common law. Part IV evaluates the Minnesota Supreme Court's application of federal privacy standards and then examines the court's decisions that outline the right of privacy under the Minnesota Constitution. Part V concludes by raising questions concerning the potential application of the court's concept of privacy under the Minnesota Constitution as applied to two areas: same-sex marriages and …

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Setting A New Agenda For U.N. Human Rights Activities, Hurst Hannum Jan 1994

Setting A New Agenda For U.N. Human Rights Activities, Hurst Hannum

Michigan Journal of International Law

Review of The United Nations and Human Rights: A Critical Appraisal (Philip Alston ed.)

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Section 1983 Litigation In The Ohio Courts: An Introduction For Ohio Lawyers And Judges, Steven H. Steinglass Jan 1994

Section 1983 Litigation In The Ohio Courts: An Introduction For Ohio Lawyers And Judges, Steven H. Steinglass

Law Faculty Articles and Essays

This review of § 1983 litigation in the Ohio courts has three principal goals. First, it provides an introduction to state court § 1983 litigation for Ohio lawyers and judges. Commentators have recognized the importance of state court § 1983 litigation, and the Supreme Court has begun to pay greater attention to state court § 1983 cases. Nonetheless, most § 1983 materials focus on the federal courts. Moreover, the few works addressing litigation of § 1983 claims in state courts either lack an Ohio focus or, where there is such a focus, deal narrowly with specific Ohio issues. This article …

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