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2007

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Full-Text Articles in Human Rights Law

Private Finance, Social Responsibility, And Transitional Justice: The Case For South African Reconciliation And Development, Daniel D. Bradlow Jan 2007

Private Finance, Social Responsibility, And Transitional Justice: The Case For South African Reconciliation And Development, Daniel D. Bradlow

Human Rights Brief

No abstract provided.


Responsibility To Pay: Compensating Civilian Casualties Of War, Jonathan Tracy Jan 2007

Responsibility To Pay: Compensating Civilian Casualties Of War, Jonathan Tracy

Human Rights Brief

No abstract provided.


The Empty U.S. Chair: United States Nonparticipation In The Negotiations On The Definition Of Aggression, Garth Schofield Jan 2007

The Empty U.S. Chair: United States Nonparticipation In The Negotiations On The Definition Of Aggression, Garth Schofield

Human Rights Brief

No abstract provided.


The U Visa Unveiled: Immigrant Crime Victims Freed From Limbo, Jessica Farb Jan 2007

The U Visa Unveiled: Immigrant Crime Victims Freed From Limbo, Jessica Farb

Human Rights Brief

No abstract provided.


International Legal Updates, Matthew Solis, Jennifer Jaimes, Rukayya Furo, Ari Levin, Morgan E. Rog, Mahreen Gillani, Alex Cheng Jan 2007

International Legal Updates, Matthew Solis, Jennifer Jaimes, Rukayya Furo, Ari Levin, Morgan E. Rog, Mahreen Gillani, Alex Cheng

Human Rights Brief

No abstract provided.


Updates From The Regional Human Rights Systems, Natalie M. Huls, Sara Ramey Jan 2007

Updates From The Regional Human Rights Systems, Natalie M. Huls, Sara Ramey

Human Rights Brief

No abstract provided.


Ngo Update, Julie A. Gryce Jan 2007

Ngo Update, Julie A. Gryce

Human Rights Brief

No abstract provided.


Mind The Gap: Purpose, Pain, And The Difference Between Torture And Inhuman Treatment, Christian M. De Vos Jan 2007

Mind The Gap: Purpose, Pain, And The Difference Between Torture And Inhuman Treatment, Christian M. De Vos

Human Rights Brief

No abstract provided.


Recognizing A Right To Autonomy For Ethnic Groups Under The African Charter On Human And Peoples’ Rights: Katangese Peoples Congress V. Zaire, Mtendeweka Owen Mhango Jan 2007

Recognizing A Right To Autonomy For Ethnic Groups Under The African Charter On Human And Peoples’ Rights: Katangese Peoples Congress V. Zaire, Mtendeweka Owen Mhango

Human Rights Brief

No abstract provided.


Rwanda’S Troubled Gacaca Courts, Christopher J. Le Mon Jan 2007

Rwanda’S Troubled Gacaca Courts, Christopher J. Le Mon

Human Rights Brief

No abstract provided.


Ensuring A Responsibility To Protect: Lessons From Darfur, Anonymous Jan 2007

Ensuring A Responsibility To Protect: Lessons From Darfur, Anonymous

Human Rights Brief

No abstract provided.


An Analysis Of The Development And Adoption Of The United Nations Convention Recognizing The Rights Of Individuals With Disabilities: Why The United States Refuses To Sign This Un Convention, Tracy R. Justesen, Troy R. Justesen Jan 2007

An Analysis Of The Development And Adoption Of The United Nations Convention Recognizing The Rights Of Individuals With Disabilities: Why The United States Refuses To Sign This Un Convention, Tracy R. Justesen, Troy R. Justesen

Human Rights Brief

No abstract provided.


International Legal Updates, Natalie Huls, Art Steele, Huwaida Arraf, Courtney Nicolaisen, Miya Saika Chen, Solomon Shinerock Jan 2007

International Legal Updates, Natalie Huls, Art Steele, Huwaida Arraf, Courtney Nicolaisen, Miya Saika Chen, Solomon Shinerock

Human Rights Brief

No abstract provided.


Updates From The International Criminal Courts, Elizabeth J. Rushing, Linda Frautschi, Jaime M. Gher, Anne Heindel, Angela Edman Jan 2007

Updates From The International Criminal Courts, Elizabeth J. Rushing, Linda Frautschi, Jaime M. Gher, Anne Heindel, Angela Edman

Human Rights Brief

No abstract provided.


Updates From The Regional Human Rights Systems, Anna Cabot, Suzanne Shams Jan 2007

Updates From The Regional Human Rights Systems, Anna Cabot, Suzanne Shams

Human Rights Brief

No abstract provided.


United Nations Update, Solomon Shinerock Jan 2007

United Nations Update, Solomon Shinerock

Human Rights Brief

No abstract provided.


Legislative Watch, Edward Babayan Jan 2007

Legislative Watch, Edward Babayan

Human Rights Brief

No abstract provided.


Book Review, Marisa Bassett Jan 2007

Book Review, Marisa Bassett

Human Rights Brief

No abstract provided.


Children's Rights Are Human Rights- An Introductory Handbook For Students And Professionals, Claire Bedard Jan 2007

Children's Rights Are Human Rights- An Introductory Handbook For Students And Professionals, Claire Bedard

Center for the Human Rights of Children

This handbook is intended for students and professionals of all disciplines- either closely or remotely connected to serving the needs of children. The goal of this handbook is to advance the cause of children everywhere.


It Could Happen To "You": Pay-To-Stay Jail Upgrades, Kim Shayo Buchanan Jan 2007

It Could Happen To "You": Pay-To-Stay Jail Upgrades, Kim Shayo Buchanan

Michigan Law Review First Impressions

In the jails of Los Angeles County, about 21,000 detainees are held in filthy cells so overcrowded—four men in a cell built for two, six to a four-man cell—that, as federal judge Dean D. Pregerson observed in 2006, inmates must stay in their bunks at all times because there is not enough room for them to stand. These men—ninety percent of whom are pretrial detainees— are held in these conditions twenty-four hours per day, seven days per week, and are typically allowed only a single three-hour exercise period weekly. Other inmates are held for days in a county “reception center” …


Compensation For Porperty Under The European Convention On Human Rights, Tom Allen Jan 2007

Compensation For Porperty Under The European Convention On Human Rights, Tom Allen

Michigan Journal of International Law

This Article asks whether the right to property, as a human right, serves the same general purpose as other human rights. The Article does so by examining the standards relating to compensation for deprivations of property under the European human rights system. If the system protects property for similar reasons as other fundamental rights, the interpretation of the right to property should draw upon the principles developed in relation to the interpretation of other rights. However, if the right to property is distinct from other human rights, then perhaps guidance on its interpretation should come from comparative law, specifically in …


Human Trafficking, Susan Freese Jan 2007

Human Trafficking, Susan Freese

Human Rights & Human Welfare

Human trafficking is one of the greatest, yet little known problems facing Russia and the former Soviet Republics. The most pertinent aspects of this topic include: who is trafficked, causes of trafficking, and the steps that have been and need to be taken to combat trafficking. Following coverage of the preceding aspects, this bibliography will include a brief section on prominent trafficking in specific countries.


United States Foreign Policy: Liberty And Security?, Jessi Schimmel Jan 2007

United States Foreign Policy: Liberty And Security?, Jessi Schimmel

Human Rights & Human Welfare

Prior to September 11, 2001, the United States had the reputation of being a leader in the field of human rights. As information of torture and abuse in Abu Ghraib, Guantánamo Bay, and secret CIA detention centers has surfaced, however, the image of America has changed from human rights champion to that of violator. In large part, the international community of scholars and activists has come to deride the foreign policy of the United States as misguided and out of balance with the threats the country faces. However, there are also plenty of outspoken defenders who believe that the tactics …


Information Work And The Proletarian Condition Today: The Perception Of Brazilian Call Center Operators, Braga Jan 2007

Information Work And The Proletarian Condition Today: The Perception Of Brazilian Call Center Operators, Braga

Societies Without Borders

The increase in company outsourcing over the last two decades has led to the development of a new type of worker on the margins of the productive system: the Call Center operator. Responsible for a wide range of information services, the rapid expansion in call centers has stirred the interest of a number of researchers in different areas of knowledge. Analyzing the work of the call center operator, the article looks to deepen our comprehension of the sea-change currently affecting today's working class. In contrast to what many forecasted some 15 years ago, the information revolution has failed to dissolve …


Transphobia And The Relational Production Of Gender, Elaine Craig Jan 2007

Transphobia And The Relational Production Of Gender, Elaine Craig

Articles, Book Chapters, & Popular Press

Knowing one's place in the social order, whether that place is one of relative privilege or not, serves two psychologically ameliorative functions. It relieves one from the “anxiety of [gender] identity interrogation” and it helps to inform one as to the socially agreed upon, acceptable conduct for interpersonal exchanges--the episteme of social interaction. This Paper will demonstrate that gender identity is produced through relational, contextually influenced, interpretative processes. Because gender is constructed in societies which strongly embrace static, binary conceptions of gender, and in which social, familial, occupational, and sexual *139 interactions are heavily influenced by gendered social scripts, gender …


Family As Status In Doe V Canada: Constituting Family Under Section 15 Of The Charter, Elaine Craig Jan 2007

Family As Status In Doe V Canada: Constituting Family Under Section 15 Of The Charter, Elaine Craig

Articles, Book Chapters, & Popular Press

The Ontario Court of Appeal recently released a decision rejecting a constitutional challenge to the Processing and Distribution of Semen for Assisted Conception Regulations. In this paper I argue that the Court's reasoning in Doe v. Canada is flawed and that certain provisions of the Semen Regulations constitute an unjustified infringement of section 15 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. I also argue that the claimants in this case would have been better served by the jurisprudence of section 15 of the Charter had they premised their argument on the assertion that they were discriminated against on the …


Respecting Adolescents' Confidentiality And Reproductive And Sexual Choices, Rebecca J. Cook, Joanna Erdman, Bernard M. Dickens Jan 2007

Respecting Adolescents' Confidentiality And Reproductive And Sexual Choices, Rebecca J. Cook, Joanna Erdman, Bernard M. Dickens

Articles, Book Chapters, & Popular Press

Adolescents, defined as between 10 and 19 years old, present a growing challenge to reproductive health. Adolescent sexual intercourse contributes to worldwide burdens of unplanned pregnancy, abortion, spread of sexually transmitted infections (STIs), including HIV, and maternal mortality and morbidity. A barrier to contraceptive care and termination of adolescent pregnancy is the belief that in law minors intellectually mature enough to give consent also require consent of, or at least prior information to, their parental guardians. Adolescents may avoid parental disclosure by forgoing desirable reproductive health care. Recent judicial decisions, however, give effect to internationally established human rights to confidentiality, …


"If That Is Heaven, We Would Rather Go To Hell": Contextualizing Us-Cuba Relations, Rumbaut, Rubén G. Rumbaut Jan 2007

"If That Is Heaven, We Would Rather Go To Hell": Contextualizing Us-Cuba Relations, Rumbaut, Rubén G. Rumbaut

Societies Without Borders

The history of Cuba is one of conquest and rebellion. Since the arrival of Columbus, it has had two colonial masters: Spain and the United States. Spain, after the collapse of its empire, ceased to be a threat to the peoples of America. Now, the Spanish are among the principal investors in Cuba, and make up a high percentage of tourists to the island. The United States, engaged in empire-building as sole superpower and continuing to pursue a half-century-old policy of regime change in Cuba, is still seen by the Cubans as the greatest threat to their independence and sovereignty. …


The Us-Un Relationship And The Promotion Of Democratic Nation-Building, Pubantz Jan 2007

The Us-Un Relationship And The Promotion Of Democratic Nation-Building, Pubantz

Societies Without Borders

Since 1990, both the United Nations and the United States have promoted democratic nation-building in conflict areas. However, despite the common goal of creating stable democracies, the two entities have often worked at cross purposes. Following the 1993 debacle in Somalia, the United States largely deserted UN nation-building efforts and moved toward unilateral democracy promotion. Over the next decade US efforts were directed at establishing Lockean procedural democracies, defined largely in terms of civil and political institutions. In UN parlance, however, democracy has taken on a holistic meaning that provides for the inclusion of social, economic, and cultural factors. This …


Balkan Societies Of "Social Men": Transcending Gender Boundaries, Tarifa Jan 2007

Balkan Societies Of "Social Men": Transcending Gender Boundaries, Tarifa

Societies Without Borders

As transgender identities worldwide have begun to receive attention from students of gender and sexuality, a curious Balkan (but more specifically Albanian) tradition of female-to-male transgender ("sworn virgins") surviving to the present day - an obscure and ambiguous theme until recently - is worthy of sociological attention. The "sworn virgin" phenomenon is studied in a larger, ethno-cultural context, zipping through such complicated - and sociologically contentious - notions as patriarchy, blood-feud, destructive entitlement, etc. It is argued that the "sworn virgins" of the Balkans were forced to become "social men," assuming masculine social and family roles, due to specific economic …