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Illusion of Justice: Human Rights Abuses in US Terrorism Prosecutions
Terrorism entails horrifying acts, often resulting in terrible losses of human life. Governments have a duty under international human rights law to take reasonable measures to protect people within their jurisdictions from acts of violence. When crimes are committed, governments also have a duty to carry out impartial investigations, to identify those responsible, and to prosecute suspects before independent courts. These obligations require ensuring fairness and due process in investigations and prosecutions, as well as humane treatment of those in custody
War and peace: the ANZAC spirit and human rights
A series of papers given by the various speakers at the Australian Human Rights Commissionâs War and Peace: The Anzac spirit and human rights 2014 seminar.
Summary
Every year around Anzac Day, Australians and New Zealanders remember those who fought in all wars and conflicts over the last 100 years. As the national human rights institutions of Australia and New Zealand we wanted to mark the anniversary of the start of the First World War by examining the relationship between the Anzac spirit and the evolution of international human rights.
We therefore convened a seminar on the 1st of May 2014 that examined the following questions:
What was it that New Zealanders and Australians believed they were fighting for during the First World War?
Is it merely a romantic myth that the Anzacs fought for individual freedom and liberty against the threat of national aggrandisement and racial superiority? Was it a war of ideas between the individualist democratic enlightened French and English tradition and the German heroic ideal of sacrifice for the common good? In short, did such lofty ideas as liberty really stimulate the Anzac bravery in a conflict that was so many thousands of miles from us?
How did the Anzac experiences from 1914-18 shape and articulate the global human rights based regime that we have 100 years later in the 21st Century?
 
Submission to the United Nations Universal Periodic Review of Saudi Arabia
Mwatana Organization for Human Rights (Mwatana) and the Columbia Law SchoolHuman Rights Clinic (the Clinic) jointly submit this report to inform the examinationof Saudi Arabia during its Universal Periodic Review. This submission focuses oninternational human rights and humanitarian law concerns related to Saudi Arabiaâsinvolvement in the war in Yemen
Submission to the United Nations Universal Periodic Review of Yemen
Mwatana for Human Rights (Mwatana), the Columbia Law School Human Rights Clinic (the clinic), Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS), International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), and the Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR) submit this report to inform the examination of Yemen during its third Universal Periodic Review (UPR). This submission focuses on international human rights and humanitarian law violations by the Government of Yemen and by the armed group Ansar Allah (the Houthis)
Saudi Arabia Must be Held to Account for Human Rights Violations in Yemen
SANAâA and NEW YORK CITY (May 21, 2018) â The international community must scrutinize Saudi Arabiaâs military operation in Yemen, and urge Saudi Arabia to cease its relentless bombing campaign and devastating restrictions on aid and access to healthcare, said the Mwatana Organization for Human Rights and Columbia Law Schoolâs Human Rights Clinic in a new report submitted to the United Nations for the UNâs review of Saudi Arabiaâs human rights record
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Rereading the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: plurality and contestation, not consensus
In this paper I examine the drafting of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. My analysis counters conventional narratives of consensus and imposition that characterize the development of the UN human rights regime. The central argument is that within the founding text of the contemporary human rights movement there is an ambiguous account of rights, which exceeds easy categorization of international rights as universal moral principles or merely an ideological imposition by liberal powers. Acknowledging this ambiguous history, I argue, opens the way to an understanding of human rights as an ongoing politics, a contestation over the terms of legitimate political authority and the meaning of âhumanityâ as a political identity
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Annual Review 2011-2012
Highlights of the 2011-2012 Annual Review include our work: launching a UT-hosted website containing millions of digitized documents from the Historic Archive of the National Police of Guatemala, contributing to a MacArthur Foundation study on the use of electronic evidence in human rights cases, creating an online exhibit on Frances T. "Sissy" Farenthold, and exploring the promises and pitfalls of property rights at our eighth annual conference.UT Librarie
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