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  • Humanitarian Law

    Affirmation of U.S. Commitment to Humanitarian Law at Red Cross Conference In relation to the international law practice and Affirmation of U.S. Commitment to Humanitarian Law at Red Cross Conference in this world legal Encyclopedia, please see the following section: Use of Force, Arms […]

  • Human Trafficking

    See International Criminal Law – Transnational crime In late 2000, the United Nations for the first time in international law defined human trafficking in the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, especially Women and Children (the Trafficking Protocol also called […]

  • Charter of Fundamental Rights

    Charter of Fundamental Rights and the Treaties of the European Union Description of Charter of Fundamental Rights provided by the European Union Commission: Following the 50th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in December 1998, the Cologne European Council (3 and 4 June […]

  • Encyclopedia of Genocide and Crimes against Humanity

    Encyclopedia of Genocide and Crimes against Humanity Details of the Encyclopedia Editor: Dinah L. Shelton, editor in chief. Published: Detroit : Macmillan Reference Date of Publication: c2005. Contents of the Encyclopedia of Genocide and Crimes against Humanity Entries Starting by A in the Encyclopedia Advertising African Americans African Crisis Response Initiative Aggression Algeria Alien Tort…

  • Encyclopedia of Genocide and Crimes against Humanity

    Encyclopedia of Genocide and Crimes against Humanity Details of the Encyclopedia Editor: Dinah L. Shelton, editor in chief. Published: Detroit : Macmillan Reference Date of Publication: c2005. Contents of the Encyclopedia of Genocide and Crimes against Humanity Entries Starting by A in the Encyclopedia Advertising African Americans African Crisis Response Initiative Aggression Algeria Alien Tort…

  • African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights

    African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Right African Charter on Human and Peoples’Right and the Peaceful Settlement of Disputes Based on the Handbook on Peaceful Settlement of Disputes between States (1992, United Nations): Adopted under the aegis of the Organization of African Unity, the African Charter adopted at Banjul created the African Commission on Human…

  • Refugee Rights

    Refugee International AIDIntroduction to Refugee RightsUntil the early 20th century, refugees, who depended for survival on aid from private groups, lacked both legal rights and protection. Since the end of World War I, various international organizations have been created to prote…

  • Lome Conventions

    A series of trade and economic assistance agreements between the European Economic Community (read this and related legal terms for further details) and various developing nations, former colonies of EEC members. The Tr…

  • 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…

  • List of International Humanitarian Treaties and Documents

    List of International Humanitarian Treaties and Documents Treaties & documents from 1800 to 1900 Declaration Respecting Maritime Law. Paris, 16 April 1856. Instructions for the Government of Armies of the United States in the Field (Lieber Code). 24 April 1863. Resolutions of the Geneva International Conference. Geneva, 26-29 October 1863. Convention for the Amelioration of…

  • 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…

  • International humanitarian law Part 21

    International Humanitarian Law Part 21 370 Toward a Universal Doctrine of Reparation for Violations of International Human Rights and Humanitarian Law ABDULLAHI AHMED AN-NA’IM International Community Law Review Volume 5, Number 1, February 2003 p.27 LAW JOURNAL / LAW REVIEW 371 ISIL Year Book of International Humanitarian and Refugee Law, Vol. II, 2002, Chief Editors,…

  • International humanitarian law Part 6

    International Humanitarian Law Part 6   97 Typology of armed conflicts in International humanitarian law : Legal concepts and actual situations Sylvain Vité International Review of the Red Cross Volume 91, Number 873, March 2009 p.69-94 LAW JOURNAL / LAW REVIEW 98 Fleck, Dieter (ed.): The Handbook of International humanitarian law GeiàŸ Heidelberg Journal of…

  • International humanitarian law Part 4

    International Humanitarian Law Part 4   63 International humanitarian law and International Criminal Law Treasa Dunworth New Zealand Yearbook of International Law Volume 6, 2008 p.315 LAW JOURNAL / LAW REVIEW 64 Protecting Civilians during the Fight against Transnational Terrorism: Applying International humanitarian law to Transnational Armed Conflicts KARINNE COOMBES Canadian Yearbook of International Law…