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Full-Text Articles in Law
The Status Of The Universal Declaration Of Human Rights In National And International Law, Hurst Hannum
The Status Of The Universal Declaration Of Human Rights In National And International Law, Hurst Hannum
Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law
No abstract provided.
Voiceless Victims: Sex Slavery And Trafficking Of African Women In Western Europe, Melanie R. Wallace
Voiceless Victims: Sex Slavery And Trafficking Of African Women In Western Europe, Melanie R. Wallace
Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law
No abstract provided.
Do All Roads Lead To Islamic Radicalism? A Comparison Of Islamic Laws In India And Nigeria, Amitabha Bose
Do All Roads Lead To Islamic Radicalism? A Comparison Of Islamic Laws In India And Nigeria, Amitabha Bose
Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law
No abstract provided.
Whore Or Homemaker? The Rocky State Of Illegal Prostitution In The Newly-Formed South Sudan And A Practical Resolution To Curtail The Epidemic, Brittany V. Sykes
Whore Or Homemaker? The Rocky State Of Illegal Prostitution In The Newly-Formed South Sudan And A Practical Resolution To Curtail The Epidemic, Brittany V. Sykes
Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law
No abstract provided.
Rethinking Small-Footprint Interventions, Stephen Watts, Stephanie Pezard
Rethinking Small-Footprint Interventions, Stephen Watts, Stephanie Pezard
The US Army War College Quarterly: Parameters
No abstract provided.
Boko Haram Terrorism: Reaching Across International Boundaries To Aid Nigeria In The Humanitarian Crisis, Lynn L. Taylor
Boko Haram Terrorism: Reaching Across International Boundaries To Aid Nigeria In The Humanitarian Crisis, Lynn L. Taylor
ILSA Journal of International & Comparative Law
Every day parents around the world send their children to school with the expectation their children's lives will be improved by the education they receive.
Emerging Issues: Overthrowing The Government: What Boko Haram Means For Women, Kimberly R. Frazier
Emerging Issues: Overthrowing The Government: What Boko Haram Means For Women, Kimberly R. Frazier
University of Baltimore Journal of International Law
Boko Haram has been active since 2002, however, most of the world became familiar with the Islamic terrorist group in April of 2014 after they kidnapped approximately 276 girls from a boarding school in northeastern Nigeria.1 The group’s leader, Abubakar Shekau, announced in a video that the kidnapping was an act of retaliation after Nigerian security forces kidnapped the wives and children of Boko Haram leaders.2 He also stated that the girls would be forced to convert to Islam and sold into the slave market to begin their new lives as “servants.”3 The kidnapping was not the first act of …
The Alien Tort Statute Of 1789 And International Human Rights Violations: Kiobel V. Royal Dutch Petroleum Co., Paula Alexander Becker
The Alien Tort Statute Of 1789 And International Human Rights Violations: Kiobel V. Royal Dutch Petroleum Co., Paula Alexander Becker
New England Journal of Entrepreneurship
Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum Co. involves an action under the Alien Tort Statute (ATS). The case was brought in the United States, Southern District of New York, by the widow of Dr. Barinem Kiobel, a Nigerian activist and member of the Ogoni tribe, and others for human rights violations committed in the Niger River Delta. Defendants include Royal Dutch Petroleum, Shell Transport and Trading Co., and Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria. Although the human rights violations including murder and torture were allegedly committed by the Nigerian military government, it is claimed that the Royal Dutch Petroleum defendants aided …
Teach The Women Well: Education Equality Is Key To Preventing Modern Day Slavery Of Women And Girls., Katharine A. Drummong
Teach The Women Well: Education Equality Is Key To Preventing Modern Day Slavery Of Women And Girls., Katharine A. Drummong
The Scholar: St. Mary's Law Review on Race and Social Justice
The key to ending modern-day slavery of women and girls requires placing further support for education initiatives in origin countries. A pro-education approach has yielded the greatest return. Since the beginning of civilization to the present, people have been trafficked and enslaved. Movements to abolish slavery gained momentum at the beginning of the nineteenth century: Great Britain outlawed slave trading in 1807, the United States abolished slavery in 1865, the League of Nations enacted a treaty calling for the end of slavery in 1926, and the efforts have strengthened in modern times. The United States’ Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA) …