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Human Rights Of Indigenous Peoples: Report Of The Seminar On The Draft Principles And Guidelines For The Protection Of The Heritage Of Indigenous People, Erica-Irene Daes Jan 2000

Human Rights Of Indigenous Peoples: Report Of The Seminar On The Draft Principles And Guidelines For The Protection Of The Heritage Of Indigenous People, Erica-Irene Daes

St. Thomas Law Review

1. By its resolution 1997/13, the Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights (formerly Sub-Commission on the Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities) requested the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to convene, prior to the sixteenth session of the Working Group on Indigenous Populations and the fiftieth session of the Sub-Commission, a seminar on the draft principles and guidelines for the protection of the heritage of indigenous peoples elaborated by the Special Rapporteur, Mrs. Erica-Irene A. Daes, with her participation and the participation of representatives of Governments, United Nations bodies and organizations, specialized agencies, organizations …

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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

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Human Rights And Health - The Universal Declaration Of Human Rights At 50, George J. Annas Jan 1998

Human Rights And Health - The Universal Declaration Of Human Rights At 50, George J. Annas

Faculty Scholarship

War, famine, pestilence, and poverty have had obvious and devastating effects on health throughout human history. In recent times, human rights have come to be viewed as essential to freedom and individual development. But it is only since the end of World War II that the link between human rights and these causes of disease and death has been recognized.1-3 The 50th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights — signed on December 10, 1948 — provides an opportunity to review its genesis, to explore the contemporary link between health and human rights, and to develop effective human-rights …

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The Awas Tingni Petition To The Inter-American Commission On Human Rights: Indigenous Lands, Loggers, And Government Neglect In Nicaragua, S. James Anaya Jan 1996

The Awas Tingni Petition To The Inter-American Commission On Human Rights: Indigenous Lands, Loggers, And Government Neglect In Nicaragua, S. James Anaya

St. Thomas Law Review

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Human Rights Education Programs For Indigenous Peoples: Teaching Whose Human Rights, Lynda Frost Jan 1995

Human Rights Education Programs For Indigenous Peoples: Teaching Whose Human Rights, Lynda Frost

St. Thomas Law Review

During the difficult decades of the 1970s and 1980s, human rights organizations (HROs), especially nongovernmental HROs, flourished in the Americas. The HROs directed their attention and resources toward documenting and denouncing the numerous and flagrant violations of human rights occurring in the region More recently the HROs found, partly because of their success, that demands for their services and funding for their projects have diminished. In an effort to revive and refocus their energy, many HROs have turned to human rights education as a new focus. Latin America has a strong tradition of popular education. Using techniques developed in popular …

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Hiv-Aids And Governmental Control Of Information: International Denial Of Human Rights, Michael L. Closent, Scott H. Isaacman Jan 1992

Hiv-Aids And Governmental Control Of Information: International Denial Of Human Rights, Michael L. Closent, Scott H. Isaacman

St. Thomas Law Review

This article will identify two significant failures in the efforts to effectively combat the HIV-AIDS pandemic. Both problems deal with the collection and dissemination of HIV-AIDS information. The first topic of concern is what we call the AIDS "name game." The definition of AIDS varies from country to country and changes from time to time within a single country, with substantial negative consequences. In addition, too much attention is focused upon AIDS rather than upon HIVAIDS (or HIV infection). Secondly, the underreporting of HIV-AIDS is a serious problem resulting in the denial of important human rights to hundreds of thousands …

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State Support Of International Terrorism: Legal, Political And Economic Dimensions, Christopher L. Blakesley Jan 1992

State Support Of International Terrorism: Legal, Political And Economic Dimensions, Christopher L. Blakesley

Scholarly Works

In this piece, Professor Blakesley reviews “State Support of International Terrorism: Legal, Political, and Economic Dimensions” by John F. Murphy.

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A Constitutional Right Of Religious Exemption: An Historical Perspective, Philip A. Hamburger Jan 1992

A Constitutional Right Of Religious Exemption: An Historical Perspective, Philip A. Hamburger

Faculty Scholarship

Did late eighteenth-century Americans understand the Free Exercise Clause of the United States Constitution to provide individuals a right of exemption from civil laws to which they had religious objections? Claims of exemption based on the Free Exercise Clause have prompted some of the Supreme Court's most prominent free exercise decisions, and therefore this historical inquiry about a right of exemption may have implications for our constitutional jurisprudence. Even if the Court does not adopt late eighteenth-century ideas about the free exercise of religion, we may, nonetheless, find that the history of such ideas can contribute to our contemporary analysis. …

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