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  • Land Rights

    Concept of Land Rights Land Rights may be defined as: Refers to the rights of people to land, either individually or collectively. These rights include the rights of access, withdrawal, management, exclusion, alienation, and others. They can also include the rights to various natural resources […]

  • Wto Accession

    WTO Accession: Russia, Samoa, Montenegro, and Vanuatu in 2011 United States views on international law (based on the document "Digest of U.S. Practice in International Law"): On December 16, 2011, trade representatives at the 8th Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization […]

  • Health Access

    Health in 2013 United States views on international law [1] in relation to Health: The HRC adopted a resolution at its 23rd session on “Access to medicines in the context of the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health.” […]

  • 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 […]

  • United Nations High Commissioner For Human Rights

    United Nations High Commissioner For Human Rights (OHCHR) As the 2005 OHCHR Plan of Action emphasizes, strengthening the rule of law has long been a principal focus of OHCHR. Based on international human rights, humanitarian and criminal law standards, a set of justice sector tools and […]

  • Protocol of Accession

    Protocol of Accession and the GATT Policy Negotiations In relation to the GATT Policy Negotiations, Christopher Mark (1993) provided the following explanation and/or definition of Protocol of Accession: A legal document that recognizes the rights and obligations agreed to as a consequence of a […]

  • 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 Gun Control and Gun Rights

    Encyclopedia of Gun Control and Gun Rights Title: Encyclopedia of Gun Control and Gun Rights Author: Glenn H. Utter. Publication Date: November 8, 1999 (1st. Edition), 2011 (2nd. edition) ISBN-10: 157356172X ISBN-13: 978-1573561723 Pages: 384 Publisher: Greenwood and Grey House Publishing Copyright: 1999 and 2011 Language: English Preface to the Book Gun control is a…

  • 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…

  • Access to the Law

    It is a fundamental precept of any legal system that the law must be accessible to the public. Ignorance of the law is no excuse because everyone is presumed to know the law. that presumption would be insupportable if the law were not available and accessible to all. the state also has an interest in…

  • International human rights law Part 47

    International human rights law Part 47   595 Judging Poverty: Using International human rights law to Refine the Scope of Charter Rights Bruce Porter Journal of Law and Social Policy Volume 15, Fall 2000 p.117 LAW JOURNAL / LAW REVIEW 596 Human Rights Standards and the Responsibility of Transnational Corporations, edited by Michael Addo. Kluwer…

  • International human rights law Part 46

    International human rights law Part 46   587 ANALYZING WOMEN’S USE OF THE INTERNET THROUGH THE RIGHTS DEBATE Reem Bandi Chicago-Kent Law Review Volume 75, Number 3, 2000 p.869 LAW JOURNAL / LAW REVIEW Women’s use of the Internet has received very little attention from feminist legal commentators. While they increasingly turn to it as…

  • International human rights law Part 42

    International human rights law Part 42   536 Divergence and the Dynamic Relationship Between Domestic Immigration Law and International Human Rights Laura S. Adams Emory Law Journal Volume 51, Number 3, Summer 2002 p.983 LAW JOURNAL / LAW REVIEW 537 RELATIVE NORMATIVITY: CHALLENGING THE SOVEREIGNTY NORM THROUGH HUMAN RIGHTS LITIGATION William J. Aceves Hastings International…

  • International human rights law Part 39

    International human rights law Part 39   511 Crazy Jane Talks With the Bishop: Abortion in China, Germany, South Africa and International human rights law Barbara Stark Texas Journal of Women and the Law Volume 12, Number 2, Spring 2003 p.287 LAW JOURNAL / LAW REVIEW 512 Famine Crimes in International Law David Marcus American…

  • International human rights law Part 39

    International human rights law Part 39   511 Crazy Jane Talks With the Bishop: Abortion in China, Germany, South Africa and International human rights law Barbara Stark Texas Journal of Women and the Law Volume 12, Number 2, Spring 2003 p.287 LAW JOURNAL / LAW REVIEW 512 Famine Crimes in International Law David Marcus American…