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The Responsibility To Protect: From Document To Doctrine - But What Of Implementation, Rebecca Hamilton Jan 2006

The Responsibility To Protect: From Document To Doctrine - But What Of Implementation, Rebecca Hamilton

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Inter-American System, Claudia Martin Jan 2006

Inter-American System, Claudia Martin

Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals

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Gender Equality And Women's Solidarity Across Religious, Ethnic And Class Difference In The Kenyan Constitutional Review Process, Athena D. Mutua Jan 2006

Gender Equality And Women's Solidarity Across Religious, Ethnic And Class Difference In The Kenyan Constitutional Review Process, Athena D. Mutua

Journal Articles

This paper examines Kenyan's women's struggle to gain new legal authority for gender equality and women's empowerment in the Kenya Constitutional Review process. Specifically it examines the efforts of the campaign to "safeguard the gains of women in the Draft Constitution," a campaign launched by a coalition of four civil society organizations in Kenya after the release of a new Draft constitution in 2002. Its focus is the 2002 Draft, the Draft's relationship to the current Kenyan Constitution and to recent constitutional proposals, from a gender perspective.

The constitutional review process is part of a larger movement to democratize the …


Immunity Or Impunity The Potential Effect Of Prosecutions Of State Officials For Core International Crimes In States Like The United States That Are Not Parties To The Statute Of The International, Mark A. Summers Jan 2006

Immunity Or Impunity The Potential Effect Of Prosecutions Of State Officials For Core International Crimes In States Like The United States That Are Not Parties To The Statute Of The International, Mark A. Summers

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Addressing The Scourge Of Human Trafficking: The Challenge Ahead, Roza Pati Jan 2006

Addressing The Scourge Of Human Trafficking: The Challenge Ahead, Roza Pati

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Integrating Trade And Human Rights In The Americas, Frank Garcia Dec 2005

Integrating Trade And Human Rights In The Americas, Frank Garcia

Frank J. Garcia

This paper analyzes the relationship between the OAS Inter-American human rights system and several regional integration systems, including NAFTA, MERCOSUR and the proposed Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA). Broadly speaking, there are two models for the relationship between integration systems and human rights protection: the leverage model and the incorporation model. The leverage model involves making effective participation in extrinsic human rights systems a legal or political condition of integration system membership. The incorporation model focuses on the juridical interpenetration of the two systems at many levels. This paper will focus on the leverage model, as it applies …