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Child Soldiers: Legal And Military Challenges In Confronting A Global Phenomenon, Benjamin Perrin
Child Soldiers: Legal And Military Challenges In Confronting A Global Phenomenon, Benjamin Perrin
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Book note re: Children at War by Peter W. Singer (New York: Pantheon, 2005). "Over the last decade, the existence of child soldiers has been brought to light through a barrage of graphic international news agency articles and human rights reports. Usually, these materials only identify sporadic and often sensationalized cases. What has been less forthcoming is a deeper understanding of what P.W. Singer calls the “child-soldier doctrine”: a calculated and pervasive strategy by armed groups to use children as combatants. Children at War is an admirable effort at making this daunting topic accessible to a wider public policy audience, …
Section 7 And The Politics Of Social Justice, Margot Young
Section 7 And The Politics Of Social Justice, Margot Young
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This paper examines the transformative potential of section 7 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and its potential usefulness in the struggle against social and economic injustice central to Canadian society. Can section 7 of the Charter encompass the protection of social and economic rights? In other words, can section 7 be interpreted to capture the progressive goal of economic redistribution? Three separate issues are considered, each providing different perspectives on the issue. First jurisprudence (doctrine) is considered, i.e. how section 7 can encompass substantive claims to economic redistributive justice. Secondly, the institutional appropriateness and justiciability of socio-economic …
Prisoner Voting Rights In Canada: Rejecting The Notion Of Temporary Outcasts, Debra Parkes
Prisoner Voting Rights In Canada: Rejecting The Notion Of Temporary Outcasts, Debra Parkes
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This book chapter examines a successful prisoner voting rights case in Canada and suggests that the opposition in the U.S. to postincarceration legal, social, and economic consequences of criminal conviction would benefit from attention to the way the continued construction of prisoners as temporary outcasts resonates positively in society, assisting to legitimate the myriad penalties and consequences imposed on prisoners' release.