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Of Minarets, Headscarves, And Cartoons, Kurt Mills Jan 2010

Of Minarets, Headscarves, And Cartoons, Kurt Mills

Human Rights & Human Welfare

It is difficult not to agree with Tariq Ramadan. The fear of and discrimination against Muslims in Western societies since 9/11 is clear and worrying. The anti-Muslim populism he cites is real, although it may also be part of a broader anti-immigrant populism. The posters he describes are extremely disturbing, and reminiscent of World War II propaganda. They are an artifact of fear of the misunderstood “other.”


Minarets Vote Compromises Human Rights For Everyone, Anna Talbot Jan 2010

Minarets Vote Compromises Human Rights For Everyone, Anna Talbot

Human Rights & Human Welfare

Minarets, like church steeples, are a physical manifestation of religion. There is little doubt, then, that their recent banning in Switzerland following a referendum constitutes a breach of the right to freedom of religion, with respect to the right to manifest ones religion. This right is protected under a number of instruments, including the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (Article 18), the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) (Article 18), and the European Convention on Human Rights (Article 9). Under these instruments, the right to manifest ones religion can only be limited if such a limitation is necessary …


Customary Practice And Community Governance In Implementing The Human Right To Water--The Case Of The Acequia Communities Of Colorado's Rio Culebra Watershed, Gregory A. Hicks, Devon G. Peña Jan 2010

Customary Practice And Community Governance In Implementing The Human Right To Water--The Case Of The Acequia Communities Of Colorado's Rio Culebra Watershed, Gregory A. Hicks, Devon G. Peña

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This paper offers commentary on the appropriateness of viewing, as a human right, the authority to manage water and to participate meaningfully in watershed governance, and it takes as an example the community of Hispano farmers of the Rio Culebra watershed of Southern Colorado in the headwaters of the Upper Rio Grande. In earlier work, the authors have written about the uneasy relationship between the formal system of appropriative water rights under Colorado law and the enduring set of local water norms practiced within acequias—the traditional water governance institutions and irrigation systems of the Culebra's Hispano farmers. The present …


Conference: She Can Do No Wrong: Recent Failures In America's Immigration Courts To Provide Women Asylum From Honor Crimes Abroad, Shira T. Shapiro Jan 2010

Conference: She Can Do No Wrong: Recent Failures In America's Immigration Courts To Provide Women Asylum From Honor Crimes Abroad, Shira T. Shapiro

American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law

No abstract provided.


Shared Understanding Or Consensus-Masked Disagreement? The Anti-Torture Framework In The Convention On The Rights Of Persons With Disabilities, Janet E. Lord Jan 2010

Shared Understanding Or Consensus-Masked Disagreement? The Anti-Torture Framework In The Convention On The Rights Of Persons With Disabilities, Janet E. Lord

Articles

No abstract provided.


What Went Wrong? Torture And The Office Of Legal Counsel In The Bush Administration, Robert F. Turner Jan 2010

What Went Wrong? Torture And The Office Of Legal Counsel In The Bush Administration, Robert F. Turner

Campbell Law Review

Were mistakes made in the preparation of the controversial OLC memoranda? There is no question about it; they were very serious mistakes, and they have harmed this country. But I think part of the explanation is that the authors of the "torture" memoranda lacked sufficient expertise in national security law, and honestly believed that a conflict involving more than seventy-five sovereign nations was "international" in scope. They reasonably read the language in Common Article 3 limiting its application to conflicts "occurring in the territory of one of the High Contracting Parties" as excluding its applicability to a struggle taking place …


Prevention And Complementarity In The International Criminal Court: A Positive Approach, Katharine A. Marshall Jan 2010

Prevention And Complementarity In The International Criminal Court: A Positive Approach, Katharine A. Marshall

Human Rights Brief

No abstract provided.


Fifth Colloquium On Challenges In International Refugee Law. The Michigan Guidelines On The Right To Work., Penelope Mathew Jan 2010

Fifth Colloquium On Challenges In International Refugee Law. The Michigan Guidelines On The Right To Work., Penelope Mathew

Michigan Journal of International Law

An Explanatory Note covering the Fifth Michigan Colloquium on Challenges in International Refugee Law and the Right to Work.


The Quest For Victims' Justice In India, Subhradipta Sarkar Jan 2010

The Quest For Victims' Justice In India, Subhradipta Sarkar

Human Rights Brief

No abstract provided.


Promoting Public Health Through Clinical Legal Education: Initiatives In South Africa, Thailand, And Ukraine, Tamar Ezer, Ludmylla Deshko, Nicola Gunn Clark, Enga Kameni, Bruce A. Lasky Jan 2010

Promoting Public Health Through Clinical Legal Education: Initiatives In South Africa, Thailand, And Ukraine, Tamar Ezer, Ludmylla Deshko, Nicola Gunn Clark, Enga Kameni, Bruce A. Lasky

Human Rights Brief

No abstract provided.


The Need For Debt Relief: How Debt Servicing Leads To Violations Of State Obligations Under The Icescr, Noel G. Villaroman Jan 2010

The Need For Debt Relief: How Debt Servicing Leads To Violations Of State Obligations Under The Icescr, Noel G. Villaroman

Human Rights Brief

No abstract provided.


The Right To Life Is The Right To Food: People’S Union For Civil Liberties V. Union Of India & Others, Lauren Birchfield, Jessica Corsi Jan 2010

The Right To Life Is The Right To Food: People’S Union For Civil Liberties V. Union Of India & Others, Lauren Birchfield, Jessica Corsi

Human Rights Brief

No abstract provided.


Creating The Human Rights Bar In Israel: 25 Years Of The U.S.-Israel Civil Liberties Law Fellowship, Maria Lokshin, Gidon Bromberg, Hassan Jabareen, Banna Shugri Badarne, Karine Elharrar Jan 2010

Creating The Human Rights Bar In Israel: 25 Years Of The U.S.-Israel Civil Liberties Law Fellowship, Maria Lokshin, Gidon Bromberg, Hassan Jabareen, Banna Shugri Badarne, Karine Elharrar

Human Rights Brief

No abstract provided.


Economic Development At The Cost Of Human Rights: China Nonferrous Metal Industry In Zambia, Brian Chama Jan 2010

Economic Development At The Cost Of Human Rights: China Nonferrous Metal Industry In Zambia, Brian Chama

Human Rights Brief

No abstract provided.


Rainforest Chernobyl Revisited: The Clash Of Human Rights And Bit Investor Claims: Chevron's Abusive Litigation In Ecuador's Amazon, Steven Donzinger, Laura Garr, Aaron Marr Page Jan 2010

Rainforest Chernobyl Revisited: The Clash Of Human Rights And Bit Investor Claims: Chevron's Abusive Litigation In Ecuador's Amazon, Steven Donzinger, Laura Garr, Aaron Marr Page

Human Rights Brief

No abstract provided.


Updates From The Regional Human Rights Systems , Andrew W. Maki, Whitney Hayes, Daniela X. Cornejo, Michèle Morel, Charles Abbott, Santiago Vázquez Jan 2010

Updates From The Regional Human Rights Systems , Andrew W. Maki, Whitney Hayes, Daniela X. Cornejo, Michèle Morel, Charles Abbott, Santiago Vázquez

Human Rights Brief

No abstract provided.


International Legal Updates, Evan Wilson, Tracey Begley, Caitlin Shay, Shubra Ohri, Annamaria Racota, Bhavani Raveendran, Ri Yoo, Aileen Thomson Jan 2010

International Legal Updates, Evan Wilson, Tracey Begley, Caitlin Shay, Shubra Ohri, Annamaria Racota, Bhavani Raveendran, Ri Yoo, Aileen Thomson

Human Rights Brief

No abstract provided.


United Nations And Ngo Updates, Zach Zarnow, Doug Keillor Jan 2010

United Nations And Ngo Updates, Zach Zarnow, Doug Keillor

Human Rights Brief

No abstract provided.


Statement By The Chairperson Of The Committee Against Torture To The 64th Session Of The General Assembly, Claudio Grossman Jan 2010

Statement By The Chairperson Of The Committee Against Torture To The 64th Session Of The General Assembly, Claudio Grossman

Human Rights Brief

No abstract provided.


Opening Remarks: Remarks Of Widney Brown, Widney Brown Jan 2010

Opening Remarks: Remarks Of Widney Brown, Widney Brown

Human Rights Brief

No abstract provided.


Updates From The Regional Human Rights Systems, Andrew W. Maki, Whitney Hayes, Daniela X. Cornejo Jan 2010

Updates From The Regional Human Rights Systems, Andrew W. Maki, Whitney Hayes, Daniela X. Cornejo

Human Rights Brief

No abstract provided.


Panel Ii: Ensuring Reparations For Victims Of Torture And Other Ill-Treatment, Claudio Grossman, Christopher Keith Hall, Juan Mén, Lorna Mcgregor, Nora Sveaass Jan 2010

Panel Ii: Ensuring Reparations For Victims Of Torture And Other Ill-Treatment, Claudio Grossman, Christopher Keith Hall, Juan Mén, Lorna Mcgregor, Nora Sveaass

Human Rights Brief

No abstract provided.


Panel Iii: Interpretation And Implementation Of The Convention Against Torture Article 22 (Petitions), Luis Gallegos, Barbara Jackman, Francisco Quintana, Julia Hall, Ann Jordan Jan 2010

Panel Iii: Interpretation And Implementation Of The Convention Against Torture Article 22 (Petitions), Luis Gallegos, Barbara Jackman, Francisco Quintana, Julia Hall, Ann Jordan

Human Rights Brief

No abstract provided.


Seeking Justice In Lago Agrio And Beyond: An Argument For Joint Responsibility Of Host States And Foreign Investors Before The Regional Human Rights Systems, Megan S. Chapman Jan 2010

Seeking Justice In Lago Agrio And Beyond: An Argument For Joint Responsibility Of Host States And Foreign Investors Before The Regional Human Rights Systems, Megan S. Chapman

Human Rights Brief

No abstract provided.


Bringing Human Rights Home: The Dc Right To Housing Campaign, Meetali Jain Jan 2010

Bringing Human Rights Home: The Dc Right To Housing Campaign, Meetali Jain

Human Rights Brief

No abstract provided.


The La Oroya Case: The Relationship Between Environmental Degradation And Human Rights Violations, Paula Spieler Jan 2010

The La Oroya Case: The Relationship Between Environmental Degradation And Human Rights Violations, Paula Spieler

Human Rights Brief

No abstract provided.


The Right To Education: A Multi-Faceted Strategy For Litigating Before The Inter-American Commission On Human Rights, Marselha Gonçalves Margerin Jan 2010

The Right To Education: A Multi-Faceted Strategy For Litigating Before The Inter-American Commission On Human Rights, Marselha Gonçalves Margerin

Human Rights Brief

No abstract provided.


Special Coverage Of The 140th Period Of Sessions Of The Inter-American Commission On Human Rights, Sarah Mazzochi, Jess Portmess, Alexandra Haney Jan 2010

Special Coverage Of The 140th Period Of Sessions Of The Inter-American Commission On Human Rights, Sarah Mazzochi, Jess Portmess, Alexandra Haney

Human Rights Brief

No abstract provided.


International Legal Updates, Aimee Mayer, Jessica Lynd, Christopher Tansey, Molly Hofsommer, Misty Seemans, Kaitlin Brush, Leah Chavla Jan 2010

International Legal Updates, Aimee Mayer, Jessica Lynd, Christopher Tansey, Molly Hofsommer, Misty Seemans, Kaitlin Brush, Leah Chavla

Human Rights Brief

No abstract provided.


Updates From The International And Internationalized Criminal Courts, Anna Maitland, Shahroo Yazdani, Cyrena Khoury, Paul Rinefierd, Chris Valvardi, John Coleman Jan 2010

Updates From The International And Internationalized Criminal Courts, Anna Maitland, Shahroo Yazdani, Cyrena Khoury, Paul Rinefierd, Chris Valvardi, John Coleman

Human Rights Brief

No abstract provided.