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Mitigating Human Rights Risks Under State-Financed And Privatized Infrastructure Projects, Michael B. Likosky Jul 2003

Mitigating Human Rights Risks Under State-Financed And Privatized Infrastructure Projects, Michael B. Likosky

Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies

No abstract provided.


United Nations Tribunals And Complicity In Human Rights Violations: The Assassination Of Zoran Djindjic, Ibpp Editor Mar 2003

United Nations Tribunals And Complicity In Human Rights Violations: The Assassination Of Zoran Djindjic, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article presents a hypothesis of untoward consequences through the reification of human rights.


Obedience To Authority As Obedience To Authority: Current Perspectives On The Milgram Paradigm, Ibpp Editor Jan 2003

Obedience To Authority As Obedience To Authority: Current Perspectives On The Milgram Paradigm, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article considers political implications of the Milgram obedience studies and of how these studies have fared in professional and lay discourse. A point of departure for the article is a volume edited by Thomas Blass on the studies.


Legislative Focus: Congress Condemns Executions By Stoning, Chanté Lasco Jan 2003

Legislative Focus: Congress Condemns Executions By Stoning, Chanté Lasco

Human Rights Brief

No abstract provided.


Poverty Reduction, Trade, And Rights, Chantal Thomas Jan 2003

Poverty Reduction, Trade, And Rights, Chantal Thomas

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.


Book Review Of Human Rights And Legal History: Essays In Honour Of Brian Simpson, Michael Ashley Stein Jan 2003

Book Review Of Human Rights And Legal History: Essays In Honour Of Brian Simpson, Michael Ashley Stein

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.


Justice Unconceived: How Posterity Has Rights, Aaron-Andrew P. Bruhl Jul 2002

Justice Unconceived: How Posterity Has Rights, Aaron-Andrew P. Bruhl

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.


Romagoza V. García: Proving Command Responsibility Under The Alien Tort Claims Act And The Torture Victim Protection Act, Beth Van Schaack Jan 2002

Romagoza V. García: Proving Command Responsibility Under The Alien Tort Claims Act And The Torture Victim Protection Act, Beth Van Schaack

Human Rights Brief

No abstract provided.


African Private Security Companies And The Alien Tort Claims Act: Could Multinational Oil And Mining Companies Be Liable?, Jennifer L. Heil Jan 2002

African Private Security Companies And The Alien Tort Claims Act: Could Multinational Oil And Mining Companies Be Liable?, Jennifer L. Heil

Northwestern Journal of International Law & Business

This paper focuses specifically on the possible liability under the ATCA of multinational oil and mining companies operating in Africa. First, it will examine the relationships between the multinational oil and mining companies, private security forces and African governments. In doing so, it will describe the actual activities and operations of the private security forces in conjunction with the oil and mining corhpanies. Second, this paper will outline the elements of liability under the ATCA. This will include a discussion of recent cases in which foreign nationals have sued multinational companies in the United States for alleged human rights abuses …


Legislative Watch, Human Rights Brief Jan 2002

Legislative Watch, Human Rights Brief

Human Rights Brief

No abstract provided.


Russian Compliance With Articles Five & Six Of The European Convention Of Human Rights As A Barometer Of Legal Reform & Human Rights In Russia, Jeffrey D. Kahn Jan 2002

Russian Compliance With Articles Five & Six Of The European Convention Of Human Rights As A Barometer Of Legal Reform & Human Rights In Russia, Jeffrey D. Kahn

Faculty Journal Articles and Book Chapters

This Note examines two of Russia's obligations under the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR): the Article 5 right to liberty and security, and the Article 6 right to a fair trial to gauge Russian compliance with European human rights norms. These articles lie at the heart of systematic legal reform in the Russian Federation. This Note defends the thesis that the agonizingly slow progress of judicial reform and the advancement of human rights in Russia is a function of the inevitable lag of conceptual norms behind institutional reform. Part I explores the weak place of the rule of law …


21st-Century Crusades And Demonizing Islam: Commentary On Inderfuth, Ibpp Editor Sep 2001

21st-Century Crusades And Demonizing Islam: Commentary On Inderfuth, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article comments on public discourse transmitted through Western-financed mass media that attempts to demonize variants of Islam--e.g., that of the Taliban.


Counter-Intelligence On Espionage In The People's Republic Of China, Ibpp Editor Aug 2001

Counter-Intelligence On Espionage In The People's Republic Of China, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article analyzes the consensual Western perception that many allegations of espionage made by the government of the People's Republic of China (PRC) are violations of universal human rights.


Trends. The Case For Reflexively Condemning Reflexively Condemning Human Rights Violations, Ibpp Editor Jul 2001

Trends. The Case For Reflexively Condemning Reflexively Condemning Human Rights Violations, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article discusses whether it is viable to compare different human rights violations.


Trends. Colombian Rebels And Elite Interests: Rights And Wrongs On Human Rights, Ibpp Editor Jul 2001

Trends. Colombian Rebels And Elite Interests: Rights And Wrongs On Human Rights, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article discusses and analyzes the reactions of elites to rebel actions (e.g., human rights violations, other violent actions) in Colombia.


Trends. Human Rights And Politics: The Wrong Argument Against The International Criminal Court, Ibpp Editor Jul 2001

Trends. Human Rights And Politics: The Wrong Argument Against The International Criminal Court, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article discusses the International Criminal Court, or ICC. At issue is the contention that the ICC has been used primarily as a political tool for settling vendettas against the governments of nation-states and/or the leaders of these states instead of furthering human rights through adjudicating allegations of genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes.


Trends. Politically Incorrect On Human Rights: The 2000 Country Reports On Human Rights Practices, Ibpp Editor Mar 2001

Trends. Politically Incorrect On Human Rights: The 2000 Country Reports On Human Rights Practices, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

The United States (US) Department of State publicly released the 2000 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices on February 26, 2001. As usual, it provides information as both fact and opinion on how human rights are upheld and violated in almost all countries and territories throughout the world. And as usual it provides two types of politically incorrect controversies.


A Dickensian Era Of Religious Rights: An Update On Religious Human Rights In Global Perspective, John Witte Jr. Mar 2001

A Dickensian Era Of Religious Rights: An Update On Religious Human Rights In Global Perspective, John Witte Jr.

William & Mary Law Review

No abstract provided.


From Gender Apartheid To Non-Sexism: The Pursuit Of Women's Rights In South Africa, Penelope Andrews Jan 2001

From Gender Apartheid To Non-Sexism: The Pursuit Of Women's Rights In South Africa, Penelope Andrews

Articles & Chapters

This article discusses the quest for women's rights in South Africa and how the transition from apartheid to democracy led to a commitment to gender equality as incorporated in South Africa's transitional and final Constitutions. This paper refers to the organizational attempts by women prior to and during the constitutional drafting process to ensure that the new Constitution embodied the aspirations and reflected the struggles for women's rights by women activists in South Africa. This article is divided into six sections. Section Two describes the legacy of apartheid for all women in South Africa. This section shows how the laws …


Rethinking The History Of American Freedom, Michael J. Klarman Oct 2000

Rethinking The History Of American Freedom, Michael J. Klarman

William & Mary Law Review

No abstract provided.


The Normative Framework Of International Humanitarian Law: Overlaps, Gaps, And Ambiguities, Cherif M. Bassiouni Aug 2000

The Normative Framework Of International Humanitarian Law: Overlaps, Gaps, And Ambiguities, Cherif M. Bassiouni

International Law Studies

No abstract provided.


Trends. Licit And Illicit Human Trafficking: The Ultimate Violation Of Human Rights, Ibpp Editor Jul 2000

Trends. Licit And Illicit Human Trafficking: The Ultimate Violation Of Human Rights, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article discusses human trafficking for economic reasons and its context.


A Future Of Human And Civil Rights In Zimbabwe: Ideology And Outcome Research, Ibpp Editor Jun 2000

A Future Of Human And Civil Rights In Zimbabwe: Ideology And Outcome Research, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article describes two common approaches to achieving human and civil rights and what may be needed to select among these and other approaches.


Trends. Hissen Habre And Human Rights: Right Or Wrong?, Ibpp Editor Mar 2000

Trends. Hissen Habre And Human Rights: Right Or Wrong?, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article discusses which high authorities (or national leaders), inside a given country and outside it, may be held accountable for human rights violations in given place.


Psychological Pathways To Minimizing Human Rights Violations Against Children, Ibpp Editor Feb 2000

Psychological Pathways To Minimizing Human Rights Violations Against Children, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article identifies several psychological pathways that governments and human rights organizations can employ to minimize human rights violations against children.


Legislative Watch, Human Rights Brief Jan 2000

Legislative Watch, Human Rights Brief

Human Rights Brief

No abstract provided.


Legislative Focus: Extending Asylum Eligibility To Include Gender-Related Persecution, Natasha Parassram Concepcion Jan 2000

Legislative Focus: Extending Asylum Eligibility To Include Gender-Related Persecution, Natasha Parassram Concepcion

Human Rights Brief

No abstract provided.


Defending Humanity, Peter Cicchino Jan 2000

Defending Humanity, Peter Cicchino

Human Rights Brief

No abstract provided.


East Timor: Will There Be Justice? , Barbara Cochrane Alexander Jan 2000

East Timor: Will There Be Justice? , Barbara Cochrane Alexander

Human Rights Brief

No abstract provided.


Human Rights And International Mutual Legal Assistance: Resolving The Tension, Robert Currie Jan 2000

Human Rights And International Mutual Legal Assistance: Resolving The Tension, Robert Currie

Articles, Book Chapters, & Popular Press

If indeed, as has been said, "it is fashionable nowadays to discuss the problems that arise from the application of general human rights to extradition", then it is also true that human rights concerns are increasingly being raised with regard to other forms of international criminal co-operation as well. As compliance with international human rights norms has become the subject of greater scrutiny by both States and international adjudicative bodies, concerns have been raised regarding their application to the various processes by which States aid each other in combating transnational crime. Prosecuting authorities are presented with problems of how the …