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Full-Text Articles in Human Rights Law

Essay: Cleaning Our Own House: "Exotic" And Familial Human Rights Violations, Hope Lewis, Isabelle R. Gunning Sep 1998

Essay: Cleaning Our Own House: "Exotic" And Familial Human Rights Violations, Hope Lewis, Isabelle R. Gunning

Buffalo Human Rights Law Review

No abstract provided.


Female Circumcision In The Modern Age: Should Female Circumcision Now Be Considered Grounds For Asylum In The United States, Gregory A. Kelson Sep 1998

Female Circumcision In The Modern Age: Should Female Circumcision Now Be Considered Grounds For Asylum In The United States, Gregory A. Kelson

Buffalo Human Rights Law Review

No abstract provided.


Refugee Rights: The New Frontier Of Human Rights Protection, Bill Frelick Sep 1998

Refugee Rights: The New Frontier Of Human Rights Protection, Bill Frelick

Buffalo Human Rights Law Review

No abstract provided.


Reporting Infant And Child Mortality Under The United Nations Human Rights Conventions, Jay S. Ovsiovitch Apr 1998

Reporting Infant And Child Mortality Under The United Nations Human Rights Conventions, Jay S. Ovsiovitch

Buffalo Law Review

No abstract provided.


The Legal Status Of Women In Croatia: A Report On The Activities Of Legaline, A Telephone Service Providing Legal Advice To Women, B.A.B.E. Jan 1998

The Legal Status Of Women In Croatia: A Report On The Activities Of Legaline, A Telephone Service Providing Legal Advice To Women, B.A.B.E.

Circles: Buffalo Women's Journal of Law and Social Policy

No abstract provided.


Looking Past The Human Rights Committee: An Argument For De-Marginalizing Enforcement, Makau Wa Mutua Jan 1998

Looking Past The Human Rights Committee: An Argument For De-Marginalizing Enforcement, Makau Wa Mutua

Journal Articles

No abstract provided.


Information Access Rights Based On International Human Rights Law, Henry H. Perritt Jr., Christopher J. Lhulier Oct 1997

Information Access Rights Based On International Human Rights Law, Henry H. Perritt Jr., Christopher J. Lhulier

Buffalo Law Review

No abstract provided.


Effect Of The Convention On The Rights Of The Child Upon Street Children In Latin America: A Study Of Brazil, Colombia, And Guatemala, Marc D. Seitles Sep 1997

Effect Of The Convention On The Rights Of The Child Upon Street Children In Latin America: A Study Of Brazil, Colombia, And Guatemala, Marc D. Seitles

In the Public Interest

No abstract provided.


The Cairo Declaration On Human Rights In Islam And International Women's Rights, Leila Hilal Jan 1997

The Cairo Declaration On Human Rights In Islam And International Women's Rights, Leila Hilal

Circles: Buffalo Women's Journal of Law and Social Policy

No abstract provided.


Human Rights Litigation In U.S. Courts: A Hypocritical Approach, Mark Gibney Jan 1997

Human Rights Litigation In U.S. Courts: A Hypocritical Approach, Mark Gibney

Buffalo Journal of International Law

No abstract provided.


Hope And Despair For A New South Africa: The Limits Of Rights Discourse, Makau Wa Mutua Jan 1997

Hope And Despair For A New South Africa: The Limits Of Rights Discourse, Makau Wa Mutua

Journal Articles

This article is a critique of the struggle to end apartheid in South Africa. It explores the assumptions employed by the African National Congress and the international community to construct a post-apartheid society. It argues that the reliance on the law as the key medium for economic, social, and political change was insufficient to transform the legacy of apartheid. Instead, the piece contends that apartheid was privatized and its beneficiaries protected under the new dispensation. It makes the argument that the lot of the black majority is unlikely to be changed such gradualist approach to social change.


Commentary: Re-Positioning Human Rights Discourse On "Asian" Perspectives, Sharon K. Hom Jul 1996

Commentary: Re-Positioning Human Rights Discourse On "Asian" Perspectives, Sharon K. Hom

Buffalo Journal of International Law

No abstract provided.


The U.N. Commission On Human Rights And Cambodia, 1975-1980, Jamie Frederic Metzl Jul 1996

The U.N. Commission On Human Rights And Cambodia, 1975-1980, Jamie Frederic Metzl

Buffalo Journal of International Law

No abstract provided.


The Destruction Of Churches And Mosques In Bosnia-Herzegovina: Seeking A Rights-Based Approach To The Protection Of Religious Cultural Property, Gregory M. Mose Jul 1996

The Destruction Of Churches And Mosques In Bosnia-Herzegovina: Seeking A Rights-Based Approach To The Protection Of Religious Cultural Property, Gregory M. Mose

Buffalo Journal of International Law

No abstract provided.


The Reasonable Suspicion Test Of Northern Ireland's Emergency Legislation: A Violation Of The European Convention Of Human Rights, Elizabeth Kondonijakos Jul 1996

The Reasonable Suspicion Test Of Northern Ireland's Emergency Legislation: A Violation Of The European Convention Of Human Rights, Elizabeth Kondonijakos

Buffalo Journal of International Law

No abstract provided.


Human Rights, Environmental Racism: The Nigerian Executions And The Case For The Ogoni, Wendy Irvine Jan 1996

Human Rights, Environmental Racism: The Nigerian Executions And The Case For The Ogoni, Wendy Irvine

Circles: Buffalo Women's Journal of Law and Social Policy

No abstract provided.


The Politics Of Human Rights: Beyond The Abolitionist Paradigm In Africa (Review Essay), Makau Wa Mutua Jan 1996

The Politics Of Human Rights: Beyond The Abolitionist Paradigm In Africa (Review Essay), Makau Wa Mutua

Book Reviews

Review of Claude E. Welch, Protecting Human Rights in America: Strategies and Roles of Non-Governmental Organizations (1995).


East Asian Approaches To Human Rights, Christina M. Cerna Jan 1996

East Asian Approaches To Human Rights, Christina M. Cerna

Buffalo Journal of International Law

No abstract provided.


Human Rights In Asia: China And The Bangkok Declaration, Michael C. Davis Jan 1996

Human Rights In Asia: China And The Bangkok Declaration, Michael C. Davis

Buffalo Journal of International Law

No abstract provided.


Foreword: Symposium On East Asian Approaches To Human Rights, Joseph W. Dellapenna Jan 1996

Foreword: Symposium On East Asian Approaches To Human Rights, Joseph W. Dellapenna

Buffalo Journal of International Law

No abstract provided.


An East Asian Approach To Human Rights, Bilahari Kim Hee P.S. Kausikan Jan 1996

An East Asian Approach To Human Rights, Bilahari Kim Hee P.S. Kausikan

Buffalo Journal of International Law

No abstract provided.


Comparative Analysis Of International And Chinese Human Rights Law--Universality Versus Cultural Relativism, Melanne Andromecca Civic Jan 1996

Comparative Analysis Of International And Chinese Human Rights Law--Universality Versus Cultural Relativism, Melanne Andromecca Civic

Buffalo Journal of International Law

No abstract provided.


The Ideology Of Human Rights, Makau Wa Mutua Jan 1996

The Ideology Of Human Rights, Makau Wa Mutua

Journal Articles

This piece argues that although human rights is an ideology although it presents itself as non-ideological, non-partisan, and universal. It contends that the human rights corpus, taken as a whole, as a document of ideals and values, particularly the positive law of human rights, requires the construction of states to reflect the structures and values of governance that derive from Western liberalism, especially the contemporary variations of liberal democracy practiced in Western democracies. Viewed from this perspective, the human rights regime has serious and dramatic implications for questions of cultural diversity, the sovereignty of states, and the universality of human …


Note: The Implications Of Human Rights Abuses Currently Occuring In The Baltic States Against The Ethnic Russian National Minority, Marc Holzapfel Jan 1996

Note: The Implications Of Human Rights Abuses Currently Occuring In The Baltic States Against The Ethnic Russian National Minority, Marc Holzapfel

Buffalo Journal of International Law

No abstract provided.


Power Ethnicized: The Pursuit Of Protection And Participation In Rwanda And Burundi, Linda Maguire Apr 1995

Power Ethnicized: The Pursuit Of Protection And Participation In Rwanda And Burundi, Linda Maguire

Buffalo Journal of International Law

No abstract provided.


Beyond The Veil?: An Analysis Of The Provisions Of The Women's Convention In The Law As Stipulated In Shari'ah, Urfan Khaliq Apr 1995

Beyond The Veil?: An Analysis Of The Provisions Of The Women's Convention In The Law As Stipulated In Shari'ah, Urfan Khaliq

Buffalo Journal of International Law

No abstract provided.


Recent Developments: Self-Determination In The Case Of Chechnya, Luke P. Bellocchi Apr 1995

Recent Developments: Self-Determination In The Case Of Chechnya, Luke P. Bellocchi

Buffalo Journal of International Law

No abstract provided.


Equal Value In The European Union: Fiction Or Reality?, Taline Aharonian Apr 1995

Equal Value In The European Union: Fiction Or Reality?, Taline Aharonian

Buffalo Journal of International Law

No abstract provided.


The Living Dead, Bonny Butler Jan 1995

The Living Dead, Bonny Butler

Circles: Buffalo Women's Journal of Law and Social Policy

No abstract provided.


Putting Humpty Dumpty Back Together Again: The Dilemmas Of The Post-Colonial African State (Review Essay), Makau Wa Mutua Jan 1995

Putting Humpty Dumpty Back Together Again: The Dilemmas Of The Post-Colonial African State (Review Essay), Makau Wa Mutua

Book Reviews

Reviewing Collapsed States: The Disintegration and Restoration of Legitimate Authority, I. William Zartman, ed.