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More Than a Name: State-sponsored Homophobia and Its ...
Scott LongA. Widney Brown, deputy program director of Human Rights Watch, and Gail Cooper, consultant to Human Rights Watch, contributed substantial portions to the text. For Human Rights Watch, the report was edited by Ian Gorvin, program ...
Ignoring Executions and Torture: Impunity for Bangladesh's ...
Human Rights Watch (Organization)The. Torture. of. Jahangir. Alam. Akash. On October 24, 2007, Jahangir Alam Akash, a journalist and human rights activist, was arrested by RAB-5 officials and taken to their headquarters where he was ...
Limits of Tolerance: Freedom of Expression and the Public ...
Sebastian BrettSebastian Brett, Human Rights Watch research associate, wrote this report. It was edited by Jose Miguel Vivanco, executive director of the Americas Division of Human Rights Watch, Anne Manuel, deputy director of the Americas Division, ...
In the Army's Hands: Human Rights in Haiti on the Eve of the ...
Anne FullerHuman Rights in Haiti on the Eve of the Elections Anne Fuller, Jocelyn McCalla, National Coalition for Haitian Refugees. Acknowledgments This is the eleventh report on human rights in Haiti issued by Americas Watch and the National ...
Human Rights: An Interdisciplinary Approach
Michael FreemanIntroducing readers to the theory and practice of human rights, this text emphasises how the experiences of the victims of human rights violations are related to legal, philosophical and social-scientific approaches to human rights.
Nationalism and Human Rights: In Theory and Practice in the ...
PreviewZehra F. KabasakalArat Chair, Human Rights Research Committee International Political Science Association ... The Last Utopia: Human Rights in History. Arat, ZehraF. Kabasakal. 2008. “Human Rights Ideologyand Dimensions of ...
The Routledge Companion to Media and Human Rights
Preview1231–50; and Carl J. Bon Tempo, 'Human Rights and the US Republican Party in the Late 1970s', in The Breakthrough, pp. 146–65. Cmiel, 'Emergence', pp. 1245– 8. Stefan-Ludwig Hoffmann, 'Genealogies of Human Rights', in Human Rights ...
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The Law, Policy and Politics of the UN Human Rights Council
Bertrand G. RamcharanIt is the merit of this book to present the Human Rights Council in terms of its mandates, roles and organization while seeking to remind the membership and the international community at large that the Council must be anchored in the ...
The Sovereignty of Human Rights
Patrick MacklemThe book contrasts this legal conception of international human rights with moral conceptions that conceive of human rights as instruments that protect universal features of what it means to be a human being.
Racist Violence in the United Kingdom
Human Rights Watch/Helsinki (Organization : U.S.)129 Duncan Campbell and Satish Sekar, "Policeman Told to Resign After Complaints of Racial Abuse," The Guardian, May 14, 1992; David Rose And Ken Hyder, "Sacked PC Given New Job by Met," The Observer, November 27, 1994; " Man ...
International Human Rights: A Comprehensive Introduction
Michael HaasThis book provides a comprehensive introduction to international human rights: international human rights law, why international human rights have increasingly risen to world prominence, what is being done about violations of human rights, ...
Theoretical Boundaries of Armed Conflict and Human Rights
Previewadil ahmad haque Introduction I will assume that international human rights law ( IHRL) aims in part to prohibit violations of basic moral rights that all human beings enjoy simply in virtue of their humanity. Of these rights, the most fundamental is ...
Public Scandals: Sexual Orientation and Criminal Law in Romania
Human Rights Watch (Organization)... Nan Buzard, Alexandra Chasin, Joe Collins, Marcia de Castro, Julie Dorf, Gerard Fergerson, Katherine Franke, Emily Honig, Tinku Ali Ishtiaq, Gara LaMarche, Chun Liu, Julie Mertus, Vinh-Kim Nguyen, Jairo Enrique Pedraza, Darius Rejali, ...
Human Rights: A Cross-Cultural Perspective
Michael U. MbanasoThe book explores some of the challenges that have frustrated efforts to realize the ideals and the implementation of human rights as stated in the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
World Report 2002: Events of 2001, November 2000-November 2001
Human Rights Watch (Organization)Operations John T. Green, operations director; Allyson Collins, Washington office associate director; Rebecca Hart, special assistant/board liaison; Patrick Minges, publicatons director; Sobeira Genao, publications manager; Fitzroy Hepkins, ...
Human Rights in Chinese Foreign Relations: Defining and ...
Ming WanDefining and Defending National Interests Ming Wan. Chapter. Two. Chinese. Views. of. Human. Rights. Western diplomatic pressure has produced little progress on human rights in China. Indeed, human rights advocacy rarely yields ...
Sociology and Human Rights: A Bill of Rights for the ...
Judith BlauPp. 239–40 in The Leading Rogue State: The U.S. and Human Rights, edited by Judith Blau, David L. Brunsma, Alberto Moncada, and Catherine Zimmer. Boulder , CO: Paradigm. Ishay, Micheline. 2008. The History of Human Rights: From ...
The International Politics of Human Rights: Rallying to the ...
PreviewBertrandG. Ramcharan, “The Human Rights Field Operation in Partnership for Peace,” in The Human Rights Field Operation: Law, Theory 41 and Practice, ed. Michael O'Flaherty (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007), 105–15. WilliamG. O'Neill, “ Human ...
Human Rights Worldwide: A Reference Handbook
Zehra F. Kabasakal AratDescribes the origins and development of the concept of human rights, looks at current issues, provides a chronology of events, includes brief biographical sketches and human rights documents, and presents research and data sources.
Human Rights in Turkey
PreviewThe scholarship presented in Human Rights in Turkey holds significant implications for the study of human rights in the Middle East and around the globe.
Sovereignty Under Challenge: How Governments Respond
Preview3 National Human Rights Commissions in Asia Sonia Cardenas Asia is unique in the domain of international human rights law: it is the only major region of the world that does not have a human rights treaty or commission tJones, 1996).
The Legitimacy of International Human Rights Regimes: Legal, ...
PreviewOn the legitimate authority of international human rights bodies STEVEN WHEATLEY 1. Introduction The idea of'human rights' has established itself as the dominant discourse in world society without a coherent understanding ofits proper ...
Contemporary Human Rights Ideas: Rethinking theory and practice
Bertrand G. RamcharanWritten by a former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (2003–4), this book has been fully updated for a second edition and continues to provide a much needed, short and accessible introduction to the foundational human rights ideas of ...
Advancing the Human Rights of Women: Using International ...
PreviewUsing International Human Rights Standards in Domestic Litigation Andrew Byrnes, Jane Frances Connors, Lum Bik. The role of the human rights treaty bodies Monitoring of the implementation by States parries of their obligations under each ...
Improvised Continent: Pan-Americanism and Cultural Exchange
Richard Candida SmithOn the development of the Organization of American States since 1970 and the expansion of its human rights conventions, see Mônica Herz, The Organization of American States (OAS): Global Governance Away from the Media (New York: ...
Human Rights: A Primer
Judith BlauHuman Rights: A Primer breaks new ground in clarifying for undergraduates the international significance of human rights. This new edition highlights current and recent developments, using themes familiar to undergraduates.
Keeping Faith with Human Rights
Linda HoganBut throughout their history, human rights have endured sustained attempts at disenfranchisement. In this provocative study, Linda Hogan defends human rights language while simultaneously reenvisioning its future.
A Selective Approach to Establishing a Human Rights ...
Hao Duy PhanThis book proposes a selective approach for states with more advanced human rights protection to establish a human rights court for Southeast Asia.
Human rights in Hong Kong
Andrew ByrnesThis collection of essays examines the present and potential future protection of all human rights, providing an analysis of a number of specific human rights, the law, and practice in Hong Kong.
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