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  • Hague International Child Abduction Convention Analysis

    Hague International Child Abduction Convention: Legal Analysis Introduction The Convention was adopted on October 24, 1980 at the Fourteenth Session of the Hague Conference on Private International Law in Plenary Session by unanimous vote of twenty-three member states of that organization. The Convention was opened for signature on October 25, 1980, at which time it…

  • Hague International Child Abduction Convention Analysis

    Hague International Child Abduction Convention: Legal Analysis Introduction The Convention was adopted on October 24, 1980 at the Fourteenth Session of the Hague Conference on Private International Law in Plenary Session by unanimous vote of twenty-three member states of that organization. The Convention was opened for signature on October 25, 1980, at which time it…

  • Children in Armed Conflict

    United Nations: Children and Armed Conflict in 2013 United States views on international law [1] in relation to United Nations: Children and Armed Conflict: On June 17, 2013, U.S. Alternate Representative to the UN for Special Political Affairs Jeffrey DeLaurentis delivered remarks at the […]

  • Rights of Indigenous Peoples

    This section provides an overview of rights of indigenous peoples within the legal context of International Economic Law and Human Rights in international economic law (Cross-Cutting Challenges). U.N. Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples In relation to the international law practice […]

  • Rights of Indigenous Peoples

    This section provides an overview of rights of indigenous peoples within the legal context of International Economic Law and Human Rights in international economic law (Cross-Cutting Challenges). U.N. Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples In relation to the international law practice […]

  • Access Rights

    Access Rights Under the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction Remedies for Breach “Access rights,” which are synonymous with “visitation rights”, are also protected by the Convention, but to a lesser extent than custody rights. While the Convention preamble and Article 1(b) articulate the Convention objective of ensuring that rights of…

  • Human Rights Council

    United States Statement at the Human Rights Council in 2011 United States views on international law (based on the document "Digest of U.S. Practice in International Law"): On September 14, 2011, at the 18th session of the Human Rights Council, Ambassador Donahoe delivered a […]

  • List of International Human Rights Treaties

    List of International Human Rights Treaties There are nine core international human rights treaties, each established with a committee of experts to monitor implementation of the treaty provisions by its States parties. Some of the treaties are supplemented by optional protocols dealing with specific concerns. The treaties are: International Convention on the Elimination of All…

  • History of Women’s Rights in the 20th Century

    History of Women’s Rights in the 20th Century Women’s in the 20th-Century Developments Socialists Movements and Communism Governments After wars and revolutions in Russia (1917) and China (1949), new Communist governments discouraged the patriarchal family system and supported sexual equality, including birth control. In the Soviet Union, however, the majority of working women held low-paid…

  • Hague Conventions

    Definition of Hague ConventionsIn accordance with the work A Dictionary of Law, this is a description of Hague Conventions : The Hague Conventions for the Pacific Settlement of International Disputes: a series of international conventions on the laws of war (3 in 1899 and 13 in 1907). The 1899 […]

  • History of Women’s Rights

    History of Women’s Rights until the 20th Century Traditional Status Some scholars argue that the discovery throughout the European continent and the Near East of thousands of stone figures of female goddesses dating from the Paleolithic period and on indicates that early societies were originally goddess-worshiping, matrifocal civilizations. Male dominance, however, was preeminent from the…

  • Constitutional Text: Austria 1945, Amendments 1986,1987,1988,1990, 1992 and 1993

    Constitutional Text: Amendments of 1986,1987,1988,1990, 1992 and 1993 to the Austria Constitution of 1945 1986 AMENDMENT TO AUSTRIA’S CONSTITUTION OF 1945 APRIL 24, 1986 212. Federal constitutional law of April 4, 1986, amending the federal constitutional law of 1929 (amendment to the federal constitutional law 1986) The National Assembly has decided: Article I. The federal…

  • Constitutional Text: Argentina 1994

    CONSTITUTION OF THE ARGENTINE NATION AUGUST 22ND, 1994 We, the representatives of the people of the Argentine Nation, gathered in General Constituent Assembly by the will and election of the Provinces which compose it, in fulfillment of pre-existing pacts, in order to form a national union, guarantee justice, secure domestic peace, provide for the common…

  • Refugees Part 16

    Refugees Part 16   239 Trends in Refugee Status Determination January-September 2002: Applications, Refugee Status Determination and Pending Cases in 84 Asylum Countries. 26 December 2002, Population Data Unit, Population and Geographic Data Section, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees , Geneva International Journal of Refugee Law Volume 14, Number 4, October 2002 p.617-631 LAW…

  • Refugees Part 14

    Refugees Part 14   215 Refugee Policy and Cultural Identity: In the Voice of Hmong and Iu Mien Young Adults Bill Ong Hing Hastings Race and Poverty Law Journal Volume 1, Number 1, Fall 2003 p.111 LAW JOURNAL / LAW REVIEW U.S. refugee admission and resettlement policies have helped to shape the cultural identities of…