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  • 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 […]

  • Report to the Un Committee on Human Rights Concerning the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights

    Periodic Report to the United Nations Committee on Human Rights Concerning the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights in 2011 United States views on international law (based on the document "Digest of U.S. Practice in International Law"): On December 30, 2011, the […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Encyclopedia of American Civil Rights and Liberties

    Encyclopedia of American Civil Rights and Liberties Title: Encyclopedia of American Civil Rights and Liberties Volumes: 3v. ISBN: 9780313327582 Publication Date: 2006-09-31 Editors: Otis H. Stephens, Scheb, John M., Stephens, Otis H., Stooksbury, Kara. Copyright: 2006. Pages: 1,342 Publisher: Greenwood Subjects: Civil and political rights, Encyclopedias, United States of America, Reference, Civil Rights, Political Freedom…

  • Death Penalty Debate And Human Rights

    Capital Punishment The Death Penalty Debate Human RightsA unique facet of the modern debate about capital punishment is the characterization of the death penalty as a human rights issue, rather than a debate about the proper punishment of criminals. Modern opposition to the death penalty is…

  • 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…

  • International humanitarian law Part 7

    International Humanitarian Law Part 7   115 PRACTICAL CHALLENGES OF IMPLEMENTING THE COMPLEMENTARITY BETWEEN INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN AND HUMAN RIGHTS LAW-DEMONSTRATED BY THE PROCEDURAL REGULATION OF INTERNMENT IN NON-INTERNATIONAL ARMED CONFLICT Laura M. Olson Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law Volume 40, Number 3, 2009 p.437 LAW JOURNAL / LAW REVIEW 116 The relationship between…

  • International humanitarian law Part 3

    International Humanitarian Law Part 3   34 Regional Approaches to International humanitarian law Richard Burchill Victoria University of Wellington Law Review Volume 41, Number 2, August 2010 p.205 LAW JOURNAL / LAW REVIEW 35 At the Fault-Lines of Armed Conflict: The 2006 .Israel-Hezbollah Conflict and the Framework of International humanitarian law Andrew Yuile Australian International…

  • International humanitarian law Part 3

    International Humanitarian Law Part 3   34 Regional Approaches to International humanitarian law Richard Burchill Victoria University of Wellington Law Review Volume 41, Number 2, August 2010 p.205 LAW JOURNAL / LAW REVIEW 35 At the Fault-Lines of Armed Conflict: The 2006 .Israel-Hezbollah Conflict and the Framework of International humanitarian law Andrew Yuile Australian International…

  • International human rights law Part 45

    International human rights law Part 45   570 Introduction: The Building Blocks to Recognition of Human Rights and Democracy: Reconciliation, Rule of law , and Domestic and International Peace James D. Wilets Nova Law Review Volume 25, Number 2, Winter 2001 p.387 LAW JOURNAL / LAW REVIEW 571 International Law, Human Rights, and Japanese Law:…

  • International human rights law Part 43

    International human rights law Part 43   545 The Safe Third country Practice in the European Union: A Misguided Approach to Asylum Law and a Violation of International Human Rights Standards Gretchen Borchelt Columbia Human Rights Law Review Volume 33, Number 2, Spring 2002 p.473 LAW JOURNAL / LAW REVIEW 546 Cairo A. R. Robb:…

  • International human rights law Part 40

    International human rights law Part 40   522 Subsidiarity as a Structural Principle of International human rights law Paolo G. Carozza American Journal of International Law Volume 97, Number 1, January 2003 p.38 LAW JOURNAL / LAW REVIEW Thanks to its capacity to embrace a conception of common good, consonant with human rights, while still…

  • International human rights law Part 40

    International human rights law Part 40   522 Subsidiarity as a Structural Principle of International human rights law Paolo G. Carozza American Journal of International Law Volume 97, Number 1, January 2003 p.38 LAW JOURNAL / LAW REVIEW Thanks to its capacity to embrace a conception of common good, consonant with human rights, while still…