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Solidarity And Rights: Two To Tango: A Response To Joseph A. Mccartin, Lance Compa
Solidarity And Rights: Two To Tango: A Response To Joseph A. Mccartin, Lance Compa
Lance A Compa
[Excerpt] Thanks to Joseph McCartin for advancing this debate with an insightful critique of the workers’-rights-as-human-rights framework and for his generous treatment of the series of Human Rights Watch reports in which I had a hand. McCartin so fairly presents the human rights case, even while disagreeing with it, that it’s hard to respond without simply borrowing from his framing of my own views. But I’ll try.
Making Sure We Are True To Our Founders: The Association Of The Bar Of The City Of New York, 1970-95, Jeffrey Morris
Making Sure We Are True To Our Founders: The Association Of The Bar Of The City Of New York, 1970-95, Jeffrey Morris
Jeffrey B. Morris
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Rational Interpretation In Irrational Times: The Third Geneva Convention And The "War On Terror", Neil Mcdonald, Scott Sullivan
Rational Interpretation In Irrational Times: The Third Geneva Convention And The "War On Terror", Neil Mcdonald, Scott Sullivan
Scott Sullivan
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Don’T Close Guantánamo, Jennifer Daskal
Don’T Close Guantánamo, Jennifer Daskal
Jennifer Daskal
Thanks to the spotlight placed on the facility by human rights groups, international observers and detainees' lawyers, there has been a significant, if not uniform, improvement in conditions.
The Advocate’S Dilemma: Framing Migrant Rights In National Settings, Maria Cook
The Advocate’S Dilemma: Framing Migrant Rights In National Settings, Maria Cook
Maria Lorena Cook
This article identifies and explores the dilemma of migrant advocacy in advanced industrial democracies, focusing specifically on the contemporary United States. On the one hand, universal norms such as human rights, which are theoretically well suited to advancing migrants’ claims, may have little resonance within national settings. On the other hand, the debates around which immigration arguments typically turn, and the terrain on which advocates must fight, derive their values and assumptions from a nation-state framework that is self-limiting. The article analyzes the limits of human rights arguments, discusses the pitfalls of engaging in national policy debates, and details the …