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Trends. The Annan Apologia: Still Missing The Point, Ibpp Editor Jan 2000

Trends. The Annan Apologia: Still Missing The Point, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article discusses Kofi Annan's apology for the United Nations' failure to intervene in the atrocities in Bosnia and Rwanda.


Orientalism Revisited In Asylum And Refugee Claims, Susan M. Akram Jan 2000

Orientalism Revisited In Asylum And Refugee Claims, Susan M. Akram

Faculty Scholarship

This article examines the stereotyping of Islam both by advocates and academics in refugee rights advocacy. The article looks at a particular aspect of this stereotyping, which can be seen as ‘neo-Orientalism’ occurring in the asylum and refugee context, particularly affecting women, and the damage that it does to refugee rights both in and outside the Arab and Muslim world. The article points out the dangers of neo-orientalism in framing refugee law issues and asks for a more thoughtful and analytical approach by Western refugee advocates and academics on the panoply of Muslim attitudes and Islamic thought affecting applicants for …


Humanitarian Intervention At A Crossroads, Bartram Brown Jan 2000

Humanitarian Intervention At A Crossroads, Bartram Brown

All Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.


At The Crossroads Of Environmental And Human Rights Standards: Aguinda V. Texaco, Inc. Using The Alien Tort Claims Act To Hold Multinational Corporate Violators Of International Laws Accountable In U.S. Courts, Lisa Lambert Jan 2000

At The Crossroads Of Environmental And Human Rights Standards: Aguinda V. Texaco, Inc. Using The Alien Tort Claims Act To Hold Multinational Corporate Violators Of International Laws Accountable In U.S. Courts, Lisa Lambert

Florida State University Journal of Transnational Law & Policy

No abstract provided.


The Problem Of Obtaining Evidence For International Criminal Courts, Jacob Katz Cogan Jan 2000

The Problem Of Obtaining Evidence For International Criminal Courts, Jacob Katz Cogan

Faculty Articles and Other Publications

International criminal courts will be judged by their fairness to defendants as well as to victims. In a very practical way, such claims will hinge, inter alia, on the ability of prosecutors and defendants to have reasonable access to probative evidence. But international criminal courts depend on states to provide them with evidence or access to evidence. The obligation of states to cooperate with international criminal tribunals in the production of evidence was at issue in the recent decision of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in the Blaki case (1997). That judgment and the provisions of the …


Conflicts Of Law And Policy In The Caribbean -- Human Rights And The Enforcement Of The Death Penalty -- Between A Rock And A Hard Place, David A. C. Simmons Jan 2000

Conflicts Of Law And Policy In The Caribbean -- Human Rights And The Enforcement Of The Death Penalty -- Between A Rock And A Hard Place, David A. C. Simmons

Florida State University Journal of Transnational Law & Policy

No abstract provided.


International Human Rights, International Humanitarian Law, And Environmental Security: Can The International Criminal Court Bridge The Gaps?, Mark A. Drumbl Jan 2000

International Human Rights, International Humanitarian Law, And Environmental Security: Can The International Criminal Court Bridge The Gaps?, Mark A. Drumbl

Scholarly Articles

The gap between international humanitarian law and environmental security should trouble international lawyers. Just as armed conflict often creates a context in which the most serious human rights abuses occur, so too, does it create a similar context for the infliction of wanton and extensive destruction to the environment. This destruction creates profound environmental insecurity. Part (II) of this Article explores the insecurities caused by the environmental consequences of armed conflict. Although the international community has shown considerable concern for the humanitarian consequences of war, it has been significantly more hesitant in accounting for war's environmental consequences. It is for …


Punishment, Postgenocide: From Guilt To Shame To Civis In Rwanda, Mark A. Drumbl Jan 2000

Punishment, Postgenocide: From Guilt To Shame To Civis In Rwanda, Mark A. Drumbl

Scholarly Articles

Following the 1994 Rwandan genocide, national and international trials set out to encourage national reconciliation, promote peace, punish perpetrators, foster a culture of human rights, and effect justice. In this Article, Professor Mark Drumbl questions the ability of these trials to achieve these goals and suggests they may in fact aggravate ethnic identity politics, thereby threatening Rwanda's long-term stability. He argues that the highly interdependent yet dualist nature of Rwandan society, together with the widespread level of participation in and victimization by the genocide, create a situation where accountability for the violence and the deterrence of future violence can be …


Waking "Sleeping Beauty": The Revised European Social Charter, Anne Theodore Briggs Jan 2000

Waking "Sleeping Beauty": The Revised European Social Charter, Anne Theodore Briggs

Human Rights Brief

No abstract provided.


Sierra Leone: Diamonds For Arms, Sheryl Dickey Jan 2000

Sierra Leone: Diamonds For Arms, Sheryl Dickey

Human Rights Brief

No abstract provided.


Efforts And Opportunities To Use International Law To Alleviate Poverty In The United States, Beth Lyon Jan 2000

Efforts And Opportunities To Use International Law To Alleviate Poverty In The United States, Beth Lyon

Human Rights Brief

No abstract provided.


Prison Conditions In Cuba: An Assessment Of Cuba's Compliance With Basic Human Rights Standards, Natasha Parassram Concepcion Jan 2000

Prison Conditions In Cuba: An Assessment Of Cuba's Compliance With Basic Human Rights Standards, Natasha Parassram Concepcion

Human Rights Brief

No abstract provided.


The Perpetuation Of Legal Nihilism And The Assertion Of Personal Freedoms In A Post-Soviet World, Shara Abraham Jan 2000

The Perpetuation Of Legal Nihilism And The Assertion Of Personal Freedoms In A Post-Soviet World, Shara Abraham

Human Rights Brief

No abstract provided.


Laogai: Reform Through Labor In China, Ramin Pejan Jan 2000

Laogai: Reform Through Labor In China, Ramin Pejan

Human Rights Brief

No abstract provided.


Wives For Sale: The Modern International Mail-Order Bride Industry, Kathryn A. Lloyd Jan 2000

Wives For Sale: The Modern International Mail-Order Bride Industry, Kathryn A. Lloyd

Northwestern Journal of International Law & Business

This comment begins by discussing the mail-order bride industry in the context of international human trafficking, focusing on traffic between the United States and the Philippines, and includes an overview of the current regulations that exist regarding this industry. It then gives an overview of the major criticisms of the mail-order bride industry, the international problems created by the practice of trafficking women as brides, and the failure of current regulations in the United States and the Philippines (or the lack thereof) to address these problems. Finally, this comment calls for international regulation that would begin to address these problems, …


Law No. 153: Its Impact On Egyptian Non-Governmental Organizations, Barbara Cochrane Alexander Jan 2000

Law No. 153: Its Impact On Egyptian Non-Governmental Organizations, Barbara Cochrane Alexander

Human Rights Brief

No abstract provided.


Point: U.S. Millitary Support For Plan Colombia: Adding Fuel To The Fire , Andrew Miller Jan 2000

Point: U.S. Millitary Support For Plan Colombia: Adding Fuel To The Fire , Andrew Miller

Human Rights Brief

No abstract provided.


Globalization Or Global Subordination? Latcrit Links The Global To The Local And The Local To Global, Sylvia R. Lazos Jan 2000

Globalization Or Global Subordination? Latcrit Links The Global To The Local And The Local To Global, Sylvia R. Lazos

Scholarly Works

Professor Lazos introduces the fifth and final cluster of this LatCrit IV Symposium, International Linkages and Domestic Engagement, which includes five important contributions to LatCrit IV's focus on global issues by Professors Timothy Canova, Gil Gott, Tayyab Mahmud, Ediberto Roman, and Chantal Thomas. The introduction below sketches out, by way of illustration only, how some of the work already presented in this symposium cultivates the linkage between local racial formation and global market dynamics. The introduction then explores LatCrit's contribution to the critique of globalism.


Rethinking Property Rights As Human Rights: Acquiring Equal Property Rights As Human Rights Acquiring Equal Property Rights For Women Using International Human Rights Treaties, Leslie Kurshan Jan 2000

Rethinking Property Rights As Human Rights: Acquiring Equal Property Rights As Human Rights Acquiring Equal Property Rights For Women Using International Human Rights Treaties, Leslie Kurshan

American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law

No abstract provided.


The Finality Of Judgment And Sentence Prerequisite In The United States-Peru Bilateral Prisoner Transfer Treaty: Calling Congress And The President To Reform And Justifying Jurisdiction Of The Inter-American Human Rights Commission And Court, 15 Am. U. Int'l L. Rev. 1071 (2000), Ralph Ruebner, Lisa Carroll Jan 2000

The Finality Of Judgment And Sentence Prerequisite In The United States-Peru Bilateral Prisoner Transfer Treaty: Calling Congress And The President To Reform And Justifying Jurisdiction Of The Inter-American Human Rights Commission And Court, 15 Am. U. Int'l L. Rev. 1071 (2000), Ralph Ruebner, Lisa Carroll

UIC Law Open Access Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.


Environmentalism, Human Rights And Indigenous Peoples: A Tale Of Converging And Diverging Interests, S. James Anaya Jan 2000

Environmentalism, Human Rights And Indigenous Peoples: A Tale Of Converging And Diverging Interests, S. James Anaya

Publications

No abstract provided.


Sclerosis: Retributive Justice And The Rwandan Genocide, Mark A. Drumbl Jan 2000

Sclerosis: Retributive Justice And The Rwandan Genocide, Mark A. Drumbl

Scholarly Articles

In the 1994 Rwandan genocide 800,000 people were massacred. The victims were overwhelmingly of the minority Tutsi ethnic group and the aggressors of the majority Hutu group. At present, 125,000 Hutu prisoners remain incarcerated while awaiting trial on genocide-related charges. This article argues that these trials, and the extensive incapacitation that necessarily precedes them, may do little to promote justice, regime legitimacy, or national reconciliation in Rwanda. This, in turn, raises broader questions about the role of criminal punishment and sentencing in situations of mass violence. Criminality usually attaches to deviant conduct. Mass political violence -- from Nazi Germany to …


Election Monitoring: The International Legal Setting, Gregory H. Fox Jan 2000

Election Monitoring: The International Legal Setting, Gregory H. Fox

Law Faculty Research Publications

No abstract provided.


Gender Politics In Global Governance (Mary K. Meyer & Elisabeth Prügl Eds., 1999), Berta E. Hernández-Truyol Jan 2000

Gender Politics In Global Governance (Mary K. Meyer & Elisabeth Prügl Eds., 1999), Berta E. Hernández-Truyol

UF Law Faculty Publications

Prof. Hernández-Truyol reviews the book Gender Politics in Global Governance from editors Mary K. Meyer and Elisabeth Prügl. Given the emergence of multilateral institutions in this century, the mobilization of women against "male supremacy" has taken an internationalist turn; it seeks to shape "the agendas of international organizations and the normative practices of global governance." In an effort to understand and analyze this movement and its impact, the editors have compiled a volume drawing new research together exploring gender politics in global governance that is also "attentive to historical and contemporary modes of women's organizing from the local to the …


Human Rights And International Mutual Legal Assistance: Resolving The Tension, Robert Currie Jan 2000

Human Rights And International Mutual Legal Assistance: Resolving The Tension, Robert Currie

Articles, Book Chapters, & Popular Press

If indeed, as has been said, "it is fashionable nowadays to discuss the problems that arise from the application of general human rights to extradition", then it is also true that human rights concerns are increasingly being raised with regard to other forms of international criminal co-operation as well. As compliance with international human rights norms has become the subject of greater scrutiny by both States and international adjudicative bodies, concerns have been raised regarding their application to the various processes by which States aid each other in combating transnational crime. Prosecuting authorities are presented with problems of how the …


Human Rights And International Mutual Legal Assistance: Resolving The Tension, Robert Currie Jan 2000

Human Rights And International Mutual Legal Assistance: Resolving The Tension, Robert Currie

Articles, Book Chapters, & Popular Press

If indeed, as has been said, "it is fashionable nowadays to discuss the problems that arise from the application of general human rights to extradition", then it is also true that human rights concerns are increasingly being raised with regard to other forms of international criminal co-operation as well. As compliance with international human rights norms has become the subject of greater scrutiny by both States and international adjudicative bodies, concerns have been raised regarding their application to the various processes by which States aid each other in combating transnational crime. Prosecuting authorities are presented with problems of how the …


Moving Toward Improved Human Rights Enforcement In The Americas, Claudio Grossman Jan 2000

Moving Toward Improved Human Rights Enforcement In The Americas, Claudio Grossman

Scholarly Articles in Law Reviews & Journals

No abstract provided.


Refugee Rights Are Not Negotiable, James C. Hathaway, Anne K. Cusick Jan 2000

Refugee Rights Are Not Negotiable, James C. Hathaway, Anne K. Cusick

Articles

America's troubled relationship with international law, in particular human rights law, is well documented. In many cases, the United States simply will not agree to be bound by international human rights treaties. For example, the United States has yet to ratify even such fundamental agreements as the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women, and the Convention on the Rights of the Child. When the United States does agree to become a party to an international human rights treaty, it has often sought to condition its acceptance …


A Kinder, Gentler System Or Capitulations? International Law, Structural Adjustment Policies, And The Standard Of Liberal, Globalized Civilization, David P. Fidler Jan 2000

A Kinder, Gentler System Or Capitulations? International Law, Structural Adjustment Policies, And The Standard Of Liberal, Globalized Civilization, David P. Fidler

Articles by Maurer Faculty

No abstract provided.


Report On The Situation Of Roma And Sinti In The Osce Area, Diane Orentlicher Jan 2000

Report On The Situation Of Roma And Sinti In The Osce Area, Diane Orentlicher

Research Reports & White Papers

A report on the situation of Roma and Sinti in the OSCE area with regard to discrimination and racial violence, education, living conditions and political participation. The Report on the Situation of Roma and Sinti in the OSCE Area contains detailed information on discrimination and racial violence, education, living conditions and political participation. It also includes recommendations on these issues. Publisher: Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe available at https://www.osce.org/hcnm/32350