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United Nations Update, Nicholas Leddy Jan 2006

United Nations Update, Nicholas Leddy

Human Rights Brief

No abstract provided.


Ngo Update, Lauren Bartlett Jan 2006

Ngo Update, Lauren Bartlett

Human Rights Brief

No abstract provided.


An American Gulag? Human Rights Groups Test The Limits Of Moral Equivalency, Kenneth Anderson Jun 2005

An American Gulag? Human Rights Groups Test The Limits Of Moral Equivalency, Kenneth Anderson

Popular Media

This 2005 article from the Weekly Standard criticizes the 2005 Amnesty International report and associated press releases and press conferences referring to the Guantanamo Bay detention facility as an American gulag. It more broadly criticizes the human rights movement for wanting it both ways - on the one hand, using extraordinarily inflammatory rhetoric such as raising the spectre of Soviet death camps, while on the other hand, calling for that very same, apparently deeply criminal regime, the Bush administration, to perform the tasks of human rights enforcement that the human rights movement would like to see performed elsewhere in the …


Report Of The Independent Expert On The Protection Of Human Rights And Fundamental Freedoms While Countering Terrorism, Robert K. Goldman Feb 2005

Report Of The Independent Expert On The Protection Of Human Rights And Fundamental Freedoms While Countering Terrorism, Robert K. Goldman

Research Reports & White Papers

The Commission on Human Rights, in resolution 2004/87, decided to designate, from within existing resources, for a period of one year, an independent expert to assist the High Commissioner for Human Rights in the fulfillment of the mandate described in the resolution and, “taking fully into account the study requested in General Assembly resolution 58/187, as well as the discussions in the Assembly and the views of States thereon, to submit a report, through the High Commissioner, to the Commission at its sixty-first session on ways and means of strengthening the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms …


Editors' Note, Melanie Nakagawa, Kirk Herbertson Jan 2005

Editors' Note, Melanie Nakagawa, Kirk Herbertson

Sustainable Development Law & Policy

No abstract provided.


Iraq, Cambodia, And International Justice , Patricia M. Wald Jan 2005

Iraq, Cambodia, And International Justice , Patricia M. Wald

American University International Law Review

No abstract provided.


Education As A Lynchpin Of Development: Legal And Policy Considerations In The Formation Of The Education For All- Fast Track Initiative Catalytic Trust Fund , Sophie Smyth, Anna Triponel Jan 2005

Education As A Lynchpin Of Development: Legal And Policy Considerations In The Formation Of The Education For All- Fast Track Initiative Catalytic Trust Fund , Sophie Smyth, Anna Triponel

Sustainable Development Law & Policy

No abstract provided.


International Legal Updates, Sebastian Amar, Shirley Woodward, Huwaida Arraf, Amy Tai Jan 2005

International Legal Updates, Sebastian Amar, Shirley Woodward, Huwaida Arraf, Amy Tai

Human Rights Brief

No abstract provided.


Ngo Update, Lauren Bartlett Jan 2005

Ngo Update, Lauren Bartlett

Human Rights Brief

No abstract provided.


Criminalizing Hate Speech: A Comment On The Ictr’S Judgment In The Prosecutor V. Nahimana, Et Al., Diane F. Orentlicher Jan 2005

Criminalizing Hate Speech: A Comment On The Ictr’S Judgment In The Prosecutor V. Nahimana, Et Al., Diane F. Orentlicher

Human Rights Brief

No abstract provided.


The Peruvian Truth And Reconciliation Commission’S Treatment Of Sexual Violence Against Women, Julissa Mantilla Falcón Jan 2005

The Peruvian Truth And Reconciliation Commission’S Treatment Of Sexual Violence Against Women, Julissa Mantilla Falcón

Human Rights Brief

No abstract provided.


Protecting Children And Their Mothers: The Millennium Development Goals Push Lofty Heath Targets, Frank Pigott Jan 2005

Protecting Children And Their Mothers: The Millennium Development Goals Push Lofty Heath Targets, Frank Pigott

Sustainable Development Law & Policy

No abstract provided.


Bridging The Gap: How The Millennium Development Goals Are Uniting The Fight Against Global Poverty, Kemal Dervis Jan 2005

Bridging The Gap: How The Millennium Development Goals Are Uniting The Fight Against Global Poverty, Kemal Dervis

Sustainable Development Law & Policy

No abstract provided.


Targets, Timetables, And Effective Implementing Mechanisms: Necessary Building Blocks For Sustainable Development, John C. Dernbach Jan 2005

Targets, Timetables, And Effective Implementing Mechanisms: Necessary Building Blocks For Sustainable Development, John C. Dernbach

Sustainable Development Law & Policy

No abstract provided.


A Personal Account: Initiating The Mcnutt Water Project In Saboba, Ghana, Ross Weber Jan 2005

A Personal Account: Initiating The Mcnutt Water Project In Saboba, Ghana, Ross Weber

Sustainable Development Law & Policy

No abstract provided.


The Human Right To Water: Legal And Policy Dimensions By Salman M.A. Salman And Siobhan Mcinerney-Lankford, Kristen Mcgeeney, Melanie Nakagawa Jan 2005

The Human Right To Water: Legal And Policy Dimensions By Salman M.A. Salman And Siobhan Mcinerney-Lankford, Kristen Mcgeeney, Melanie Nakagawa

Sustainable Development Law & Policy

No abstract provided.


Obligations Of State And Non-State Actors Regarding The Human Right To Water Under The South African Constitution, Anna R. Welch Jan 2005

Obligations Of State And Non-State Actors Regarding The Human Right To Water Under The South African Constitution, Anna R. Welch

Sustainable Development Law & Policy

No abstract provided.


Prologue, Claudio Grossman Jan 2005

Prologue, Claudio Grossman

American University International Law Review

No abstract provided.


Introduction, Claudia Martin, Diego Rodriguez-Pinzon Jan 2005

Introduction, Claudia Martin, Diego Rodriguez-Pinzon

American University International Law Review

No abstract provided.


Misinterpreting The Prohibition Of Torture Under International Law: The Office Of Legal Counsel Memorandum, Louis-Philippe F. Rouillard Jan 2005

Misinterpreting The Prohibition Of Torture Under International Law: The Office Of Legal Counsel Memorandum, Louis-Philippe F. Rouillard

American University International Law Review

No abstract provided.


La Noción De Tortura Y Otros Tratos O Penas Crueles, Inhumanos O Degradantes En El Marco Del Comité De Derechos Humanos Y El Comité Contra La Tortura De Las Naciones Unidas, David Fernández Puyana Jan 2005

La Noción De Tortura Y Otros Tratos O Penas Crueles, Inhumanos O Degradantes En El Marco Del Comité De Derechos Humanos Y El Comité Contra La Tortura De Las Naciones Unidas, David Fernández Puyana

American University International Law Review

No abstract provided.


Keynote Address, William H. Taft Jan 2005

Keynote Address, William H. Taft

American University International Law Review

No abstract provided.


Examining The Use Of Evidence Obtained Under Torture: The Case Of The British Detainees May Test The Resolve Of The European Convention In The Era Of Terrorism , Brandie Gasper Jan 2005

Examining The Use Of Evidence Obtained Under Torture: The Case Of The British Detainees May Test The Resolve Of The European Convention In The Era Of Terrorism , Brandie Gasper

American University International Law Review

No abstract provided.


Criminalizing Hate Speech In The Crucible Of Trial: Prosecutor V. Nahimana, Diane F. Orentlicher Jan 2005

Criminalizing Hate Speech In The Crucible Of Trial: Prosecutor V. Nahimana, Diane F. Orentlicher

American University International Law Review

No abstract provided.


Operation Murambatsvina: A Crime Against Humanity Under The Rome Statute? , Jeff Nicolai Jan 2005

Operation Murambatsvina: A Crime Against Humanity Under The Rome Statute? , Jeff Nicolai

American University International Law Review

No abstract provided.


Post Operative Transsexuals' Right To Marriage, Sarah Leinicke Jan 2005

Post Operative Transsexuals' Right To Marriage, Sarah Leinicke

The Modern American

No abstract provided.


Volume 5 Issue 1, Sustainable Development Law & Policy Jan 2005

Volume 5 Issue 1, Sustainable Development Law & Policy

Sustainable Development Law & Policy

No abstract provided.


The Constitutional Right To Water In Uruguay, Rachael Moshman Jan 2005

The Constitutional Right To Water In Uruguay, Rachael Moshman

Sustainable Development Law & Policy

No abstract provided.


Inuit Circumpolar Conference V. Bush Administration: Why The Arctic Peoples Claim The United States' Role In Climate Change Has Violated Their Fundamental Human Rights And Threatens Their Very Existence, Juliette Niehuss Jan 2005

Inuit Circumpolar Conference V. Bush Administration: Why The Arctic Peoples Claim The United States' Role In Climate Change Has Violated Their Fundamental Human Rights And Threatens Their Very Existence, Juliette Niehuss

Sustainable Development Law & Policy

No abstract provided.


Volume 6 Issue 1, Sustainable Development Law & Policy Jan 2005

Volume 6 Issue 1, Sustainable Development Law & Policy

Sustainable Development Law & Policy

No abstract provided.