716 research outputs found
Universality Of Human Rights: The Case Of The Death Penalty
THE ISSUE OF THE UNIVERSALITY OF HUMAN RIGHTS
Forty-five years after the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights the international community met in Vienna to elaborate the human rights agenda for the next twenty-five years
Christina M. Cerna on The Torture Papers: The Road to Abu Ghraib. Edited by Karen J. Greenberg and Joshua L. Dratel. Cambridge, MA: Cambridge University Press, 2005. 1249 pp.
A review of:
The Torture Papers: The Road to Abu Ghraib. Edited by Karen J. Greenberg and Joshua L. Dratel. Cambridge, MA: Cambridge University Press, 2005. 1249 pp
Christina M. Cerna on The UN International Criminal Tribunals, The former Yugoslavia, Rwanda and Sierra Leone by William A. Schabas. New York, Cambridge University Press, 2006. 711 pp.
A review of:
The UN International Criminal Tribunals, The former Yugoslavia, Rwanda and Sierra Leone by William A. Schabas. New York, Cambridge University Press, 2006. 711 pp
Gun Violence and U.S. Obligations under the Inter- American System for the Protection of Human Rights
This article discusses the human rights aspects of gun violence from the perspective of the Organization of American States. The article explains the history, structure, and procedure of the OAS body that is charged with reviewing allegations of deprivations of human rights. Because exhaustion of claims at the national level is not required when the national law does not recognize a certain claim, the article argues that American victims of gun violence should be able to proceed directly to the international tribunal. In order for this to occur, the U.S. would need to ratify a treaty assenting to such jurisdiction; the article argues in favor of this outcome
Christina M. Cerna on Defining Civil and Political Rights: The Jurisprudence of the United Nations Human Rights Committee by Alex Conte, Scott Davidson and Richard Burchill. Ashgate Publishing Company, 2004. 257pp.
Reflections on the Normative Status of the American Declaration of the Rights and Duties of Man Anniversary Contributions - International Human Rights
Provisional Measures: How International Human Rights Law is Changing International Law (Inspired by Gambia v. Myanmar)
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