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War And The Problem Of Child Soldiers, Meng Yoong Yong

Student Works (2000-2009)

Askar kanak-kanak mernpakan satu fenomena yang jarang didebatkan di Malaysia. fetapi di banyak negara dunia ketiga ia mernpakan satu perkara biasa. Yang dikatakan askar anak-kanak adalah pejuang yang bernmur Japan belas tahun ke bawah. Apa yang menakjubkan alah seramai 300,000 kanak-kanak di sebanyak 60 buah negara melibatkan diri secara aktif di ialam konflik dan peperangan. Di Afrika sahaja terdapat lebih kurang 120,000. Jika dahulu canak-kanak ditugaskan dalam sektor sokongan dan logistik seperti tukang masak, pengangkut )arangan, penghantar mesej dan pengintip, kini oleh kerana teknologi pesat dalam bidang Jersenjataan, kanak-kanak ditugaskan di barisan hadapan bersama pejuang dewasa yang lain. Kanak-kanak perempuan …

Inter-American System, Claudia Martin

Scholarly Articles in Law Reviews & Journals

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Human Rights Policy In The Age Of Terrorism, Juan E. Mendez

Scholarly Articles in Law Reviews & Journals

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Inter-American System, Claudia Martin

Scholarly Articles in Law Reviews & Journals

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Gender Hate Propaganda And Sexual Violence In The Rwandan Genocide: An Argument For Intersectionality In International Law, Llezlie Green

Scholarly Articles in Law Reviews & Journals

This article explores the gendered dimensions of genocidal hate propaganda before and during the Rwandan genocide and proposes that the international tribunal consider these cases with an intersectional approach that attempts to fully appreciate the harm inflicted upon Tutsi women.

Feeling The Heat Of Human Rights Branding: Bringing Transnational Corporations Within The International Human Rights Fence, Robert Mccorquodale

Human Rights & Human Welfare

A review of:

Human Rights Standards and the Responsibility of Transnational Corporations edited by Michael K. Addo. The Hague: Kluwer Law International, 1999. 384pp.

Capitalizing On Market Reforms: Facets Of Legal Development In Contemporary China, Stefanie Elbern

Human Rights & Human Welfare

A review of:

Law and Justice in China’s New Marketplace by Ronald C. Keith and Zhiqiu Lin. New York: Palgrave, 2001. 315pp.

and

Profits and Principles: Global Capitalism and Human Rights in China by Michael A. Santoro. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2000. 256pp.

21st-Century Crusades And Demonizing Islam: Commentary On Inderfuth, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article comments on public discourse transmitted through Western-financed mass media that attempts to demonize variants of Islam--e.g., that of the Taliban.

Trends. The Case For Reflexively Condemning Reflexively Condemning Human Rights Violations, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article discusses whether it is viable to compare different human rights violations.

Trends. Human Rights And Politics: The Wrong Argument Against The International Criminal Court, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article discusses the International Criminal Court, or ICC. At issue is the contention that the ICC has been used primarily as a political tool for settling vendettas against the governments of nation-states and/or the leaders of these states instead of furthering human rights through adjudicating allegations of genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes.

That Someone Guilty Be Punished: The Impact Of The Icty In Bosnia, Diane Orentlicher

Research Reports & White Papers

In That Someone Guilty Be Punished, Diane F. Orentlicher, professor of law at American University, looks at the effects and effectiveness of the ICTY, including lessons to improve future efforts to provide justice for survivors of atrocious crimes. Perhaps most importantly, Orentlicher examines the impact of the tribunal through the words and experiences of those in whose name it was established: the victims and survivors. Their expectations, hopes, and disappointments are chronicled alongside the tribunal’s achievements and limitations. Based on hundreds of hours of interviews—and featuring the voices and perceptions of dozens of Bosnian interlocutors—That Someone Guilty Be …

Political Psychology In Yugoslavia: An Overview, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article (with minimal editing by IBPP) has been written by a new IBPP Regional Editor, Natasa Bajic, a psychologist who resides in Serbia. In the article, she provides an overview of political psychology within Yugoslavia.

The Future Of Southeast Asia: Challenges Of Child Sex Slavery And Trafficking In Cambodia, Benjamin Perrin, Shuvaloy Majumdar, Nicholas Gafuik, Stephanie Andrews

All Faculty Publications

The Cambodia Project: During 2000-2001, The Future Group launched its inaugural project in Southeast Asia to address child sex slavery and trafficking. For nearly one-hundred days, a deployment team of four worked with local organizations in Cambodia to implement new ideas to help the children affected by this crisis of international proportions. Initially, The Future Group had planned to work to implement five projects in Cambodia. After just three weeks, the deployment team was significantly ahead of schedule and began to actively identify new areas to pursue. Critical areas of need at local centres were addressed and projects that increased …

Outrelativizing Relativism: A Liberal Defense Of The Universality Of International Human Rights, Robert D. Sloane

Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law

This Article seeks to provide a new framework, rooted in classical liberalism, for understanding and defending the universality of international human rights. After reviewing the philosophical and historical development of the idea of universality, Part II argues that none of the traditional justifications for conceiving of international human rights as universal succeed. Cultural pluralism therefore must be accepted as a descriptive truth. But to acknowledge the cultural contingency of values as a descriptive claim does not, by itself, undermine the normative claim that human rights are, or should be, universal. Instead, it points to the need to justify universality within …

A Trade/Human Rights Linkage By The United States: Is Enforcing Human Rights By Use Of Trade Sanctions Effective?, Blaise Omondi Odhiambo

LLM Theses and Essays

Universally held basic human rights must remain separate from political rights. Such basic human rights are those that are so universal that all societies, systems, nations, and ideology could, and do espouse them. Conversely, political rights are those that are dependent upon compatibility with the system of government in place and arc therefore far less likely to gamer universal support. An effective multilateral enforcement mechanism can only succeed if there are universal agreement and acceptance of the protected rights. Accordingly, at the outset of such a mechanism, only basic human rights may be enforced through trade sanctions. Once such a …

Now We Know About Pinochet, But Where Do We Go From Here?, Gerald Robert Pace

Human Rights & Human Welfare

A review of Chile Under Pinochet: Recovering the Truth. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press (Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights), 1999. 296pp.

General Augusto Pinochet, who served as military and civil leader of Chile from 1973 until 1990, forged perhaps one of the most authoritarian regimes ever to govern in the Western Hemisphere. Spearheading the violent coup d’état that ousted socialist President Salvador Allende, Pinochet not only achieved power, but also created a personalistic dictatorship bolstered by a military run governmental bureaucracy to secure his rule. And indeed, this combination perpetuated Pinochet’s seventeen-year tenure.

Inter-American System, Claudia Martin, Diego Rodriguez-Pinzon

Scholarly Articles in Law Reviews & Journals

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Ethical And Humanitarian Concerns Add A New Dimension To International Security In The Post-Cold War World, Juan E. Mendez

Scholarly Articles in Law Reviews & Journals

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Reconciling Amnesties With Universal Jurisdiction - A Reply To Mr. Phenyo Keiseng Rakate, Juan E. Mendez, Garth Meintjes

Scholarly Articles in Law Reviews & Journals

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Freedom Of Expression In The Inter-American System For The Protection Of Human Rights, Claudio Grossman

Scholarly Articles in Law Reviews & Journals

No abstract provided.

Turks, Armenians, And Genocide: Is Genocide Foreign To Foreign Policy?, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article describes difficulties in forging foreign policy consensus on preventing, attenuating, or intervening to stop genocide.

Trends. After The Election: Milosevic Myths, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article discusses the defeat of Slobodan Milosevic in his re-election attempt in 2000, as well as the subsequent political balance in Yugoslavia.

Introduction (Volume 75)

International Law Studies

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Table Of Contents (Volume 75)

International Law Studies

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Full Volume 75: International Law Across The Spectrum Of Conflict

International Law Studies

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The International Criminal Court: A Skeptical Analysis, Alfred P. Rubin

International Law Studies

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The History And Status Of The International Criminal Court, Howard Levie

International Law Studies

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On Genocide, Anthony D'Amato

International Law Studies

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The Normative Framework Of International Humanitarian Law: Overlaps, Gaps, And Ambiguities, Cherif M. Bassiouni

International Law Studies

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Index (Volume 74)

International Law Studies

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