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Standard Setting In Human Rights: Critique And Prognosis, Makau Wa Mutua
Standard Setting In Human Rights: Critique And Prognosis, Makau Wa Mutua
Journal Articles
This article interrogates the processes and politics of standard setting in human rights. It traces the history of the human rights project and critically explores how the norms of the human rights movement have been created. This article looks at how those norms are made, who makes them, and why. It focuses attention on the deficits of the international order, and how that order - which is defined by multiple asymmetries - determines the norms and the purposes they serve. It identifies areas for further norm development and concludes that norm-creating processes must be inclusive and participatory to garner legitimacy …
Action On Global Warming: Making Room For Tribal Governments In The New Kind Of Wedge Issue, Dean B. Suagee
Action On Global Warming: Making Room For Tribal Governments In The New Kind Of Wedge Issue, Dean B. Suagee
The Climate of Environmental Justice: Taking Stock (March 16-17)
Presenter: Dean B. Suagee, Of Counsel, Hobbs, Straus, Dean & Walker LLP, Washington, D.C.
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Non-Governmental Organizations, Prevention, And Intervention In Internal Conflicts: Though The Lens Of Darfur, J. J. Welling
Non-Governmental Organizations, Prevention, And Intervention In Internal Conflicts: Though The Lens Of Darfur, J. J. Welling
Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies
This Note argues that cases like the humanitarian crisis and the conflict in Darfur, Sudan, present an intrastate collective action problem that has not been satisfactorily addressed by a traditional multilateral approach. Instead, the Darfur crisis demonstrates the need for an expanded view of modern international law in the face of intrastate conflict that includes systematic intervention procedures and preventive aid, as well as a multifaceted approach that recognizes and integrates NGOs and NGO alliances. This Note asserts that the Sudan crisis has posed a collective action problem requiring not only multilateral state collective action, but also multifaceted, coordinated action …
Freeing All God’S Children, Clifford Bob
Freeing All God’S Children, Clifford Bob
Human Rights & Human Welfare
A review of:
Freeing God’s Children: The Unlikely Alliance for Global Human Rights by Allen D. Hertzke. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2004. 419pp.
Noble Human Rights Defender Or International Band-Aid? On Contemporary Humanitarianism, Kurt Mills
Noble Human Rights Defender Or International Band-Aid? On Contemporary Humanitarianism, Kurt Mills
Human Rights & Human Welfare
A review of:
The Humanitarians: The International Committee of the Red Cross by David P. Forsythe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005.
Indigenous Law And Its Contribution To Global Pluralism, James Anaya
Indigenous Law And Its Contribution To Global Pluralism, James Anaya
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