Category: human rights
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Too much school?
Ana put footnotes in Mac’s April 10 Immigrant Rights March flyer. omg. Compare with Berkeley’s flyer. [Tags]Immigration, Agitprop, Humor[/Tags]
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Minow and Gourevitch: Human Rights as a recovery of Humanity
Yongho Kim INTL245: Human Rights November 7, 2003 Gourevitch’s We wish to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with our families is a powerful account of the genocide in Rwanda, an analysis of certain key concepts in issues of mass violations of human rights, and an outcry to the international community and the…
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Inter-American System
The Inter-American System JU, SL I. Background and Institutions The Inter-American System of human rights consists principally of the General Assembly, the Meeting of Consultation of Ministers of Foreign Affairs, the Council, and the General Secretariat. It is guided by the American Declaration of the Rights and Duties of Man (adopted 1948) and the American…
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European Court of Human Rights
KJ, SK. Group 9 This section opens with a detailed account of the Lustig- Prean and Beckett case that came before the European Court of Human Rights. These two British nationals complained that investigations into their homosexuality their discharge from the Royal Navy on the sole ground that they are homosexual violated Article 8 of…
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Response to the European Convention and the Case of Homosexuality
Monday, October 27. Group 8: AT, AW, Yongho Kim Response to the European Convention and the Case of Homosexuality The European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms System constitutes a model and a standard of its own in terms of effectiveness in enforcing Human Rights among its members. The Convention was…
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ICCPR Mechanism
CH, JM. Discussion Group 7 What kinds of complaints are brought before the ICCPR? How does it differ from other treaty regimes? One of the components of the ICCPR Human Rights Committee is an optional protocol (ratified by 95 of the 144 states as of March 2000), with a critical provision stating that communications must be…
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Thought piece on International Roundtable: Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o
Yongho Kim INTL245 Introduction to Human Rights October 20, 2003 Thought piece on International Roundtable: Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o Ngugi asserts in his paper, When the Margin Becomes the Center: African Identities in a Global Context, that political and economic remedies are not enough in addressing the internal problems in African societies, and that linguistic and…
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ICCPR
CH, HM, AP. Group 6 Response The UN currently has 6 treaty organs, which are distinguished from Charter organs in that they are not created under the UN charter, but are mandated by the 6 universal human rights treaties. The ICCPR Human Rights Committee is a treaty organ created by Articles 28-45 of the International…
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UN Security Council
AG, RR, EO. Thematic Mechanisms Thematic Mechanisms have been in use since 1980. They were originally created in response to disappearances in Argentina. In order to preserve national integrity, avoid political embarrassment, and protect economic issues, they were created on an international level as opposed to an individual country level. The Commission used a ‘thematic’…
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United Nations
JH, NE, RN. Group 4 The reading begins by discussing the problematic topic of enforcement in the realm of human rights. Serious questions are raised about the feasibility of consistent enforcement of human rights norms. It is relatively clear that some international enforcement is inevitable, regardless of it’s agreed upon desirability. However, the reading asserts that…