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1997

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Full-Text Articles in Human Rights Law

Development Projects And Project-Affected Peoples: The Need To Advance Sustainable Development By Establishing An International Development Institutions Inspection Panel To Redress Grievances, Ram Anand Shankar Jan 1997

Development Projects And Project-Affected Peoples: The Need To Advance Sustainable Development By Establishing An International Development Institutions Inspection Panel To Redress Grievances, Ram Anand Shankar

LLM Theses

Indigenous and tribal communities are frequently affected by development projects in an adverse manner. Often they do not have any effective way of redressing their grievances, particularly against noncompliance of environmental guidelines and rules by International Development Institutions. This thesis explores avenues open to affected peoples to redress their grievances regarding the negative impacts of development projects. The thesis begins by defining "Project Affected Peoples," explores the concept of sustainable development, and suggests consequent principles for development projects. Then follows an examination of an existing grievance-redressal mechanism, the World Bank Inspection Panel, which has been mandated to redress complaints from …


United States' Responsibility For Gross Levels Of Human Rights Violations In Guatemala From 1954 To 1996, Mark Gibney Jan 1997

United States' Responsibility For Gross Levels Of Human Rights Violations In Guatemala From 1954 To 1996, Mark Gibney

Florida State University Journal of Transnational Law & Policy

No abstract provided.


Vengeance Is Whose?: The Death Penalty And Cultural Relativism In International Law, James H. Wyman Jan 1997

Vengeance Is Whose?: The Death Penalty And Cultural Relativism In International Law, James H. Wyman

Florida State University Journal of Transnational Law & Policy

No abstract provided.


Restoring The Humanitarian Character Of U.S. Refugee Law: Lessons From The International Community, Jennifer Moore Jan 1997

Restoring The Humanitarian Character Of U.S. Refugee Law: Lessons From The International Community, Jennifer Moore

Faculty Scholarship

This response essay will first characterize UNHCR's role in the international protection of refugees, as a means of assessing the relevance of UNHCR's perspective to U.S. judicial decision-making in the area of asylum. The paper will then respond to each of the three problematic issues which Professor Fitzpatrick identifies in contemporary U.S. asylum law, by presenting, in each case, a broad proposition of international law which will then be substantiated with reference to relevant principles, guidelines and insights from the international refugee protection community of which UNHCR is a part. Finally, the essay's conclusion will offer a possible rationale for …


Indonesia's National Human Rights Commission: A Step In The Right Direction? , Monika Talwar Jan 1997

Indonesia's National Human Rights Commission: A Step In The Right Direction? , Monika Talwar

Human Rights Brief

No abstract provided.


Israeli Interrogation Methods Legitimized By Court, Alexandra L. Wisotsky Jan 1997

Israeli Interrogation Methods Legitimized By Court, Alexandra L. Wisotsky

Human Rights Brief

No abstract provided.


Combating Discrimination Against Aids Patients In Tanzania, Nicole Grimm Jan 1997

Combating Discrimination Against Aids Patients In Tanzania, Nicole Grimm

Human Rights Brief

No abstract provided.


News From The International War Crimes Tribunal, Ewen Allison Jan 1997

News From The International War Crimes Tribunal, Ewen Allison

Human Rights Brief

No abstract provided.


Field Report: Alternatives To Obeying Superior Order; A Question For The International Criminal Court, Rajeev Purohit Jan 1997

Field Report: Alternatives To Obeying Superior Order; A Question For The International Criminal Court, Rajeev Purohit

Human Rights Brief

No abstract provided.


Female Genital Mutilation: United States Asylum Laws Are In Need Of Reform, Amy Stern Jan 1997

Female Genital Mutilation: United States Asylum Laws Are In Need Of Reform, Amy Stern

American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law

No abstract provided.


The Death Penalty And The Decline Of Liberalism, 30 J. Marshall L. Rev. 321 (1997), John R. Macarthur Jan 1997

The Death Penalty And The Decline Of Liberalism, 30 J. Marshall L. Rev. 321 (1997), John R. Macarthur

UIC Law Review

No abstract provided.


Intruders At The Death House: Limiting Third-Party Intervention In Executive Clemency, 30 J. Marshall L. Rev. 567 (1997), Daryl M. Schumacher Jan 1997

Intruders At The Death House: Limiting Third-Party Intervention In Executive Clemency, 30 J. Marshall L. Rev. 567 (1997), Daryl M. Schumacher

UIC Law Review

No abstract provided.


This Is Who Will Die When Doctors Are Allowed To Kill Their Patients, 31 J. Marshall L. Rev. 95 (1997), Michael Mcgonnigal Jan 1997

This Is Who Will Die When Doctors Are Allowed To Kill Their Patients, 31 J. Marshall L. Rev. 95 (1997), Michael Mcgonnigal

UIC Law Review

No abstract provided.


Politics, Economics And Human Rights In International Cooperation: A Public Discourse In Germany, 31 J. Marshall L. Rev. 171 (1997), Gabriel Von Malsen-Tilborch Jan 1997

Politics, Economics And Human Rights In International Cooperation: A Public Discourse In Germany, 31 J. Marshall L. Rev. 171 (1997), Gabriel Von Malsen-Tilborch

UIC Law Review

No abstract provided.


Conscientious Objection In The Americas, Raymond J. Toney Jan 1997

Conscientious Objection In The Americas, Raymond J. Toney

Human Rights Brief

No abstract provided.


News From The International War Crimes Tribunals, Brian D. Tittemore Jan 1997

News From The International War Crimes Tribunals, Brian D. Tittemore

Human Rights Brief

No abstract provided.


News From The Inter-American System, William Clark Harrell, Richard J. Wilson Jan 1997

News From The Inter-American System, William Clark Harrell, Richard J. Wilson

Human Rights Brief

No abstract provided.


Training Judges To Incorporate International Law Into Domestic Courts, Monika Talwar, Thomas Quintana Jan 1997

Training Judges To Incorporate International Law Into Domestic Courts, Monika Talwar, Thomas Quintana

Human Rights Brief

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.


Film Chronicles Suffering At Omarska Concentration Camp, Rajeev Purohit Jan 1997

Film Chronicles Suffering At Omarska Concentration Camp, Rajeev Purohit

Human Rights Brief

No abstract provided.


Field Report: The Contentious Jurisdiction Mechanism Of The Inter-American Human Rights System: Looking Toward The Future , Lawrence Groo Jan 1997

Field Report: The Contentious Jurisdiction Mechanism Of The Inter-American Human Rights System: Looking Toward The Future , Lawrence Groo

Human Rights Brief

No abstract provided.


Genetic Technology: Constructing A New Language For International Human Rights, Maha F. Munayyer Jan 1997

Genetic Technology: Constructing A New Language For International Human Rights, Maha F. Munayyer

Human Rights Brief

No abstract provided.


Field Report: The Death Penalty And Due Process In Guatemala, William Clark Harrell Jan 1997

Field Report: The Death Penalty And Due Process In Guatemala, William Clark Harrell

Human Rights Brief

No abstract provided.


Trends: South Asia's Regional Initiative On Human Rights, Madhavi Basnet Jan 1997

Trends: South Asia's Regional Initiative On Human Rights, Madhavi Basnet

Human Rights Brief

No abstract provided.


Sexual Assault Issues Before The War Crimes Tribunal, Diane Orentlicher Jan 1997

Sexual Assault Issues Before The War Crimes Tribunal, Diane Orentlicher

Human Rights Brief

No abstract provided.


China's Plans For Hong Kong Jeopardize Basic Civil Liberties, Gillian Brady Jan 1997

China's Plans For Hong Kong Jeopardize Basic Civil Liberties, Gillian Brady

Human Rights Brief

No abstract provided.


Ethnic Minorities In Post-Communist Romania: From Rhetoric To Integration, Tiberiu Dianu Jan 1997

Ethnic Minorities In Post-Communist Romania: From Rhetoric To Integration, Tiberiu Dianu

Human Rights Brief

No abstract provided.


Icty Issues Final Judgment Against Dusan Tadic In First International War Crimes Trial Since World War Ii, Rochus J.P Pronk, Brian D. Tittemore Jan 1997

Icty Issues Final Judgment Against Dusan Tadic In First International War Crimes Trial Since World War Ii, Rochus J.P Pronk, Brian D. Tittemore

Human Rights Brief

No abstract provided.


Turkey's Human Rights Record Impedes European Integration, D. Michelle Domke Jan 1997

Turkey's Human Rights Record Impedes European Integration, D. Michelle Domke

Human Rights Brief

No abstract provided.


Rwanda's Domestic Trials For Genocide And Crimes Against Humanity, Carla J. Ferstman Jan 1997

Rwanda's Domestic Trials For Genocide And Crimes Against Humanity, Carla J. Ferstman

Human Rights Brief

No abstract provided.