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Conflict and Compliance: State Responses to International ...

Conflict and Compliance: State Responses to International ...

Sonia Cardenas

In Conflict and Compliance, Sonia Cardenas examines responses to such pressure and challenges conventional views of the reasons states do—or do not—comply with international law.
Human Rights, State Compliance, and Social Change: Assessing ...

Human Rights, State Compliance, and Social Change: Assessing ...

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Government Human Rights Commissions in Africa (New York: HRW, 2001); Sonia Cardenas and Andrew Flibbert, “National Human Rights Institutions in the Middle East,” Middle East Journal 59 (2005), 411–36; Sonia Cardenas, “National  ...
Human Rights in Latin America: A Politics of Terror and Hope

Human Rights in Latin America: A Politics of Terror and Hope

Sonia Cardenas

Human rights in Latin America: a politics of terror and hope / Sonia Cardenas. p. cm. — (Pennsylvania studies in human rights) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-8122-4197-6 (alk. paper) 1. Human rights— Latin ...
Negotiating Sovereignty and Human Rights: Actors and Issues ...

Negotiating Sovereignty and Human Rights: Actors and Issues ...

Michaelene Cox

Sonia Cardenas If the Cold War saw the internationalization of human rights norms, the postCold War period gave way to their internalization (Cardenas 2001 ). Nothing illustrates this more aptly than the global proliferation of national human ...
Asian Yearbook of International Law: Volume 14 (2008)

Asian Yearbook of International Law: Volume 14 (2008)

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Sonia Cardenas traced the UN's role in four related mechanisms of influence, including standard setting, capacity building, network facilitating, and membership granting,115 while Anna-Elina Pohjolainen focused on the roles of the UN in the ...
Domestic Politics and International Human Rights Tribunals: ...

Domestic Politics and International Human Rights Tribunals: ...

Courtney Hillebrecht

Sonia Cardenas (2007) suggests, “which actor wins a domestic battle over state compliance may in the end have more to do with who has the greatest institutional power than who is committed most firmly to an international norm.
The Future of International Law: Global Government

The Future of International Law: Global Government

Joel P. Trachtman

234 In her book on compliance, Sonia Cardenas discusses what constitutes state compliance, and uses statistical analysis to determine what the domestic and international pressures for compliance and norm violation are. See generally ...
Chains of Justice: The Global Rise of State Institutions for ...

Chains of Justice: The Global Rise of State Institutions for ...

Sonia Cardenas

Cornelia Albert, The Peacebuilding Elements of the Belfast Agreement and the Transformation of the Northern Ireland Conflict (Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 2009). 124. Brice Dickson, The European Convention on Human Rights and the Conflict in ...
Sonia Rykiel

Sonia Rykiel

Sonia Rykiel

Provides the biography of Sonia Rykiel, who celebrated forty years in fashion in 2008 and remains one of the world's pre-eminent designers.
Sovereignty Under Challenge: How Governments Respond

Sovereignty Under Challenge: How Governments Respond

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3 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).
Sonia Gandhi:

Sonia Gandhi:

Arun Bhanot

Arun Bhanot, Suraj Prasad Verma, Mahesh Sharma. Citizen. Sonia. The question of Mrs. Sonia Gandhi's citizenship is a strictly legal issue which deplorably is being given racist and xenophobic overtones. The Indian Constitution does not ...
The Pan American Games / Los Juegos Panamericanos: A ...

The Pan American Games / Los Juegos Panamericanos: A ...

Steven Olderr

Ramsey CAN 131.395 Laura Wilkin Carol Stewart USA 194.86 Michele Barone Linda Shelley CAN 187.233 Penny Vilagos Vicky Vilagos CAN 183.450 Karen Fonteyne Karen Sribney MEX 174.936 Sonia Cárdenas Lourdes Olivera CAN ...
Agrarian Crossings: Reformers and the Remaking of the US and ...

Agrarian Crossings: Reformers and the Remaking of the US and ...

Tore C. Olsson

... 1972), 391–32; Amelia Kiddle and Joseph U. Lenti, “Co-opting Cardenismo: Luis Echeverría and the Funeral of Lázaro Cárdenas,” in Populism in Twentieth- Century Mexico: The Presidencies of Lázaro Cárdenas and Luis Echeverría, ed.
Sons of the Mexican Revolution: Miguel Alemán and His Generation

Sons of the Mexican Revolution: Miguel Alemán and His Generation

Ryan M. Alexander

Kiddle, Amelia M., and María L. O. Muñoz. “Men of the People: Lázaro Cárdenas, Luis Echeverría, and Revolutionary Populism.” In Populism in TwentiethCentury Mexico: The Presidencies of Lázaro Cárdenas and Luis Echeverría, edited by ...
Sonia Sotomayor: First Hispanic U.S. Supreme Court Justice

Sonia Sotomayor: First Hispanic U.S. Supreme Court Justice

Lisa Tucker McElroy

She travels to Puerto Rico once or twice a year to visit cousins and relatives who live there. June25,1954 1972 1976 1979 1979–1984 1983 1984–1992 1992 Sonia Sotomayor. FUN FACTS ABOUT SONIA SOTOMAYOR IMPORtant DatEs 40 ...
Sonia Begonia

Sonia Begonia

Joanne Rocklin

Eleven-year-old Sonia determines to be a businesswoman and follow in the footsteps of her parents and elder brother but discovers that success in business isn't everything.
Cazadores de Cuerpos/The Body Hunters: La Experimentacion ...

Cazadores de Cuerpos/The Body Hunters: La Experimentacion ...

Sonia Shah

Sonia Shah describe con precisión estos atropellos, y se atreve a poner nombre y apellido a los responsables.
Who Is Sonia Sotomayor?

Who Is Sonia Sotomayor?

Megan Stine

The truly inspiring story of the first Latina Supreme Court Justice. Outspoken, energetic, and fun, Sonia Sotomayor has managed to turn every struggle in life into a triumph.
Commercial Law

Commercial Law

Alan Paul Dobson

In making the contracts of 10 and 12 November, Sonia is acting outside the actual authority given to her by Tristan, in that she has been forbidden to ... That is why it will become important to look later at Tristan's power to ratify Sonia's actions.
Sonia Sotomayor:

Sonia Sotomayor:

Zella Williams

Sonia Sotomayor is a truly inspiring figure. This bilingual edition presents her stirring story, from her early life in a housing project to her success at Princeton and Yale.
Commercial Law Q and A 2003-2004

Commercial Law Q and A 2003-2004

Taylor & Francis Group

In making the contracts of 10 and 12 November, Sonia is acting outside the actual authority given to her by Tristan, in that she has been forbidden to ... That is why it will become important to look later at Tristan's power to ratify Sonia's actions.
Judge Sonia Sotomayor: Analysis of Selected Opinions

Judge Sonia Sotomayor: Analysis of Selected Opinions

Anna C. Henning

Several weeks later, President Obama nominated Judge Sonia Sotomayor, whocurrently serves on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, to fill his seat.
The Fever: How Malaria Has Ruled Humankind for 500,000 Years

The Fever: How Malaria Has Ruled Humankind for 500,000 Years

Sonia Shah

In The Fever, the journalist Sonia Shah sets out to answer this question, delivering a timely, inquisitive chronicle of the illness and its influence on human lives.
Sonia Sotomayor: A Biography

Sonia Sotomayor: A Biography

Meg Greene

This insightful biography introduces readers to Justice Sonia Sotomayor, a remarkable woman with a single-minded pursuit of educational excellence, who rose from poverty in a Bronx housing project to a seat on the U.S. Supreme Court. * ...
Sonia Sotomayor: A Judge Grows in the Bronx/La juez que ...

Sonia Sotomayor: A Judge Grows in the Bronx/La juez que ...

Jonah Winter

Before Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor took her seat in our nation's highest court, she was just a little girl in the South Bronx.
The Unofficial Guide to Collecting Antiques

The Unofficial Guide to Collecting Antiques

Sonia Weiss

Sonia Weiss. The meaning of the word 'antique' is often confusing, overused, and rarely defined. — Frank Farmer Loomis IV, Is It Antique Yet? 99. classical decorative devices such as the Greek key and the urn. The American interpretation of ...
Project Animal Farm: An Accidental Journey into the Secret ...

Project Animal Farm: An Accidental Journey into the Secret ...

Sonia Faruqi

Sonia Faruqi, an Ivy League graduate and investment banker, had no idea that the night she arrived at the doorstep of a dairy farm would mark the beginning of a journey that would ultimately wind all the way around the world.
The Light in Their Eyes: Creating Multicultural Learning ...

The Light in Their Eyes: Creating Multicultural Learning ...

Sonia Nieto

In this 10th Anniversary Edition of her popular text, Sonia Nieto reviews where we have been and where we should be going in our pursuit of creating multicultural learning communities in our schools.
Razones del profesorado para seguir con entusiasmo

Razones del profesorado para seguir con entusiasmo

Sonia Nieto

Sonia Nieto, una reconocida formadora de profesorado, nos acerca a lo que se puede aprender de docentes experimentados que no sólo continúan enseñando sino que además lo hacen con entusiasmo.
Sonia Sotomayor: The Supreme Court's First Hispanic Justice

Sonia Sotomayor: The Supreme Court's First Hispanic Justice

Richard Barrington

This book recounts the story of Sonia Sotomayor, the third female and first Hispanic associate justice of the United States Supreme Court, and her journey from a housing project to the Ivy League and then through all three levels of the ...

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