Roots Of Human Resistance To Animal Rights The same has been true of perpetrators of genocide. Microfilms intl. 7905583) hereinafter A Relativistic Theory of Phenomenological Constitution. http://www.animallaw.info/articles/arussbartlett2002.htm
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International News The Hindu human rights report—the first in what is to be an annual However,Canadians also need to honestly discuss the cultural genocide perpetuated http://www.pluralism.org/news/intl/index.php?feature=1
JWST 5111 intl. Human rights Law afflicted with trauma, slavery, human rights violations,and genocide, especially, but not necessarily, in the twentieth century. http://www.chgs.umn.edu/Educational_Resources/Curriculum/Courses/JWST_5111/jwst_
Extractions: Thus, the course will begin with discussion of problems of semantics, "Holocaust," versus "Shoah," and Genocide, issues of uniqueness, the problem of inclusion of other groups affected by the Nazi era such as the Roma and Sinti peoples, homosexuals, Poles and religious dissidents, then move to individualized and more complex issues relating to the specificity of German culpability, gender-related questions, examination of individual theological responses in depth, the second generation, as well as issues relating to probing limits of representation in art and literature. If we would have more time, we might go into the question of comparative genocidebut that is probably better left for another course. Aim of the Course: Aim of the course is to produce professional learning experience in the area of Holocaust studies, with understanding of historiographical discourse, reading of individual works, and writing assignments. The Holocaust should always be viewed in the context of the civilization in which it took place: European, Christian, scientific, modern, technological, and progressive.
Extractions: I. Introduction Contemporary manifestations of the protection of international human rights are overwhelmingly humanitarian in character: the convening of the Hague Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda,1 the recent ratification of the Rome Treaty establishing Nuremberg-style International Criminal Court,2 as well as transnational proceedings, such as that initiated against General Augusto Pinochet, the former Chilean dictator.3 Contemporary responses to political violence and human rights violations international criminal legal system with the rule of law. My paper explores contemporary understanding of global rule of law, by analyzing developments in international humanitarian law as the leading form of protection of human rights worldwide. This paper explores dimensions of the universal and the particular in international humanitarian law, towards a better understanding of the distinctive global rule of law peculiar to the contemporary moment. It suggests that the humanitarian regime, mixed character an amalgam of human rights law, and the law of war, reflects the state of present political realities, of transition from an international legal system premised on sovereign states, and consent regimes, to a more interconnected, hybrid regime, aimed at threshold governance of global politics.
THE BELGRAVIA DISPATCH: TPM Pile-On Watch Western/Christian human rights oriented civ needs military force, selfimportant buffoon might again be gazing over genocide under his very nose. http://www.belgraviadispatch.com/archives/004002.html
Extractions: Main Josh Marshall has a long post up today which I fear contains certain inaccuracies. TPM approvingly and uncritically links to this Dave Ignatius op-ed Marshall: The column describes a conversation Ignatius had with new Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili, in which the president describes his guidelines for peaceful overthrows of autocratic regimes. That, though, is not what I want to discuss, not specifically at least. What interests me is the last line of the column: " The Bush administration talks about democratic change. But it's the Saakashvilis, armed with their homegrown how-to manuals , who actually make it happen First Ignatius got fooled; and then Marshall swallowed Saakashvili's spin hook, line and sinker. Of course Saakashvili is going to make the Velvet Revolution sound all 'home-grown'. He doesn't want to be painted as some U.S. stooge by Russian interests active in Georgia. And revolutionaries (if we can call a former Manhattan attorney that) are often romantic, larger-than-life characters. So why debunk the myth of the noble world-historical figureacting solo to save the Nation?
Vermont Journal Of Environmental Law Seeking Accountability In US Courts Human rights Litigation Under The ATCA As A murder, genocide and slavery. 24 Sarei, civ No. C0011695 at 19. http://www.vjel.org/roscoe/roscoe02a.html
Extractions: Sponsored by The Roscoe Pound Foundation I. INTRODUCTION When a multinational corporation operating in a developing country strips a hillside of its rainforest, forcibly removes the local population, carves a chasm in the earth and mines with chemicals that are washed into rivers and leached into the groundwater, plaintiffs are unlikely to find redress in U.S. courts. Although corporate environmental abuse abroad is common, successful litigation of the abuse is not. This paper examines why, and argues that plaintiffs should benefit from a globalization of justice, just as corporations have benefited from a globalization of resources and labor. Plaintiffs can use four possible methods in U.S. courts to seek redress and create accountability for corporate environmental abuses abroad. This paper discusses each method, focusing on the options that are most likely to yield positive results for plaintiffs. Only one of the four methods the Alien Tort Claims Act (ATCA) may be useful for international environmental lawyers and their clients.
IAGS Letter To PM intl Association of genocide Scholars Open Letter to Turkish PM The Armeniangenocide was the most wellknown human rights issue of its time and was http://www.anc.net.au/new_page_1.htm
Extractions: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Intl Association of Genocide Scholars Open Letter to Turkish PM Monday 13th June 2005 INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF GENOCIDE SCHOLARS President Israel Charny (Israel) First Vice-President Gregory H. Stanton (USA) Second Vice-President Linda Melvern (UK) Secretary-Treasurer Steven Jacobs (USA) June 13, 2005 Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan TC Easbakanlik Bakanlikir Ankara, Turkey FAX: 90 312 417 0476 Dear Prime Minister Erdogan: We are writing you this open letter in response to your call for an `impartial study by historians' concerning the fate ofthe Armenian people in the Ottoman Empire during World War I. We represent the major body of scholars who study genocide in North America and Europe. We are concerned that in calling for an impartial study of the Armenian Genocide you may not be fully aware of the extent of the scholarly and intellectual record on the Armenian Genocide and how this event conforms to the definition of the United Nations Genocide Convention. We want to underscore that it is not just Armenians who are affirming the Armenian Genocide but it is the overwhelming opinion of scholars who study genocide: hundreds of independent scholars, who have no affiliations with governments, and whose work spans many countries and nationalities and the course of decades. The scholarly evidence reveals the following: On April 24, 1915, under cover of World War I, the Young Turk government of the Ottoman Empire began a systematic genocide of its Armenian citizens - an unarmed Christian minority population. Morethan a million Armenians were exterminated through direct killing, starvation, torture, and forced death marches. The rest of the Armenian population fled into permanent exile. Thus an ancient civilization was expunged from its homeland of 2,500 years.
Webster University Vienna intl 4600. International Relations Seminar genocide in the 20th Century, Dr.Gregory Weeks Introduction to Human rights (4week course, 05/23-06/17)3,5 http://www.webster.ac.at/vienna/w/ac_006_01.html
SEPNet Sudan Emancipation Preservation Network SEPNet strives to empower people in Sudan to stand for human rights, Canada and genocide in Sudan Mel Middleton (Freedom Quest intl.) http://www.sepnet.org/index.php?op=Default&Date=200412&blogId=1
Northeastern University - International Affairs Explores women s efforts to acquire personhood and the rights of citizens during 19411945; genocide and the Holocaust; partisans and collaborators; http://www.casdn.neu.edu/~intl/courses.shtml
Extractions: Examines the political, economic, social, and cultural relationship between the developed and developing world since the end of World War II. Topics include the Cold War, independence and national movements in developing countries, the globalization of the world economy, scientific and technological innovations, wealth and poverty, the eradication of some diseases and the spread of others, the fall of the Soviet Union, Middle East turmoil, and the enduring conflict between Israel and Palestine. (4 Credit Hours) Offers an interdisciplinary approach to analyzing international conflict and negotiations: how conflicts evolve, are managed, and/or resolved. In dealing with different types of regional and international conflicts, students focus on historical, ethnic, religious, geographic, and political aspects of a variety of conflicts and the consequences these conflicts hold for regional and international actors. (4 Credit Hours)
Extractions: Interdisciplinary Programs David Carl Wilson, Director Webster University offers students the opportunity to study in areas that cut across disciplines by offering general studies coursework and majors, minors, or certificates in environmental studies, fine arts, international human rights, international studies, Latin American studies, liberal arts, multicultural studies, practical and interdisciplinary ethics, and women's studies. International Human Rights (B.A) International Studies (B.A.) with an individualized emphasis International Studies (B.A.) with an emphasis in
Amnesty International USA: Abolish The Death Penalty Death Penalty Defies International Human rights Standards even for the mostheinous crimes known to civilization, including genocide. http://www.amnestyusa.org/abolish/factsheets/international_h_r_standards.html
Extractions: @import "/c/ai.css"; search The death penalty is a violation of human rights. More than half the countries in the world have now abolished the death penalty in law or practice. The United Nations adopted without dissent the Universal Declaration of Human Rights ( UDHR . The Declaration proclaims the right of every individual to protection from deprivation of life. It states that no one shall be subjected to cruel or degrading punishment. The death penalty violates both of these fundamental rights. The UN adopted the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights ( ICCPR . Article 6 of the Covenant states that "no one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his life" and that the death penalty shall not be imposed on pregnant women or on those who were under the age of 18 at the time of the crime. Article 7 states that "no one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment." The UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) adopted "Safeguards Guaranteeing Protection of the Rights of Those Facing the Death Penalty."
Extractions: Human Rights Watch is a non-partisan, non-governmental human rights organization headquartered in New York. It is the largest international human rights organization based in the United States, comprising five regional divisions: Africa Watch, Americas Watch, Asia Watch, Helsinki Watch and Middle East Watch. Helsinki Watch was established in 1979 and is the oldest and largest division of Human Rights Watch. Helsinki Watch monitors and reports on human rights conditions in Europe, including Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union and Turkey. Since its inception, Helsinki Watch has worked extensively on conditions in the former Yugoslavia. Helsinki Watch has at least two full-time researchers in the region at all times. Tribunal on Former Yugoslavia, News From Helsinki Watch, Vol. 5, Issue 12 (August 1, 1993). The Women's Rights Project of Human Rights Watch has also assisted in gathering testimonial evidence of rape and other crimes against women committed in the conflict in the former Yugoslavia. Founded by Human Rights Watch in 1990, the Women's Rights Project monitors and reports on violence against women and gender discrimination around the world. It has documented the widespread use of rape as a weapon of war in the former Yugoslavia as well as in other conflict situations. See, e.g., HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH, UNTOLD TERROR: VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN IN PERU'S ARMED CONFLICT (1992). Human Rights Watch, through Helsinki Watch, has provided its findings to the Commission of Experts appointed by the United Nations Secrerary General to investigate war crimes in the former Yugoslavia. In addition, representatives of Helsinki Watch have provided testimony and reports on the Balkans to various bodies of the United Nations, the United States State Department, Congress and other international and domestic organizations.
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Extractions: Many international law scholars have assumed that the rise of international human rights litigation in US courts is an unequivocally positive development. In this essay, I will suggest that, notwithstanding its understandable appeal, this litigation entails significant domestic costs, and possibly international costs as well. These costs, like the benefits of international human rights litigation, are difficult to measure and probably vary from case to case. If nothing else, however, the existence of these costs may suggest that courts should await specific guidance from Congress before allowing further expansions of this litigation.
Peter Phillips: A Report From Cairo He resigned in protest of the genocide the embargoes were having on Iraq. We affirm the rights of the Iraqi and Palestinian people to resist external http://www.counterpunch.org/phillips1223.html
Extractions: home subscribe about us books ... feedback Counter Punch December 23, 2002 by PETER PHILIPS Cairo. Bid-Meellah-E Rahman-E Al Rahim, In the name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate, was the prayer by President Ahmad Ben Bella of Algeria introducing the start of the International Campaign Against Aggression on Iraq. The Conrad Hotel on the Nile River in Cairo served as the gathering place for over 400 people from some twenties countries on December 18-19, 2002. We assembled to launch an international effort to prevent United States military aggression and in the hope of stimulating worldwide protest against the pending war on the people of Iraq. There was a shared belief among the participants that a unified "Cairo Declaration" from the center of the Arab world would contribute to the growing millions of people worldwide who have protested and marched against what is now being described as Bush's War. President Ben Bella, hero of the Algerian revolution, expressed what were to become common themes at the conference: that Regime change in Iraq would only be the first Arab country to be attacked, and that Iran, Syria, and even Egypt would follow. "Oil is Islam," declared Ben Bella, the United States is part of a long line of colonial powers. Each in turn has been destroyed and nothing else is possible for the United States. Arab peoples will not be subject to colonial rule; continued struggle will emerge to defeat the invaders. Arab civilization is the "museum of humanity' and will not be the subject of a "New World Order" or a final crusade.
Extractions: ABOUT THE PORTAL INSTANT ANALYSIS NEW ADDITIONS MOST VIEWED ... CASE BIBLIOGRAPHY RESOURCE CATEGORY: Book or Chapter Payam Akhavan, The New Frontiers of Judicial Enforcement: The International Criminal Tribunals for the Former Yugoslavia and Rwanda in International Human Rights Monitoring Mechanisms: Essays in Honour of Jakob Th. Moller (Gudmundur Alfredsson, et al., eds.) The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2001. Kelly Dawn Askin, The ICTY: An Introduction to its Origins, Rules and Jurisprudence in Essays on ICTY Procedure and Evidence in Honour of Gabrielle Kirk McDonald (Richard May, et al., eds) The Hague; Boston: Kluwer Law International, 2000. 13-36 Kelly Dawn Askin, War Crimes against Women: Prosecution in International War Crimes Tribunals The Hague: M. Nijhoff, 1997. Kelly Dawn Askin, Women's Issues in International Criminal Law: Recent Developments and the Potential Contribution of the ICC in International Crimes, Peace, and Human Rights: The Role of the International Criminal Court (Dinah Shelton, ed) Ardsley, NY: Transnational Publishers, 2000. 47-64 M. Cherif Bassiouni
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Extractions: It is exemplary, prophetic and fitting that the first President of the African Union is a woman, consistent with that exceptionally noble tradition throughout Africa's pre-colonial past. The election of Gertrude Mongella to Africa's highest political office attests to Africa's historic memory, as well as to Africa's legendary heritage of unity in its immense, rich and beautiful diversity.
Business And International Crimes - Fafo/Torture Some case information and summaries from the International Labor rights Fund sproject on Case No.96 civ 8386 (KMW) (SDNY 2002) click to jump http://www.fafo.no/liabilities/part_II-4tort.htm
Extractions: Main page Executive summary Surveys Commentary ... Feedback The contents and documents of this web site are intended for research purposes and do not constitute legal advice. Fafo AIS and IPA are not responsible for the content of linked web sites Category IV: Torture Some case information and summaries from the International Labor Rights Fund's project on Corporate Labor Rights Abuses. See: http://www.laborrights.org/projects/corporate/ATCA%20summaries.htm 1. Roe, et. al. v. Unocal Corporation, et. al.
