In 2007, after more than 20 years of exhaustive negotiations, drafts and re-drafts between indigenous groups and member states, the United Nations (“UN”) finally adopted the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (“Declaration”) by an overwhelming majority. The UN [...]
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This Article was born out of a question posed to me by my eight-year-old son, Leo, who has been raised as a bilingual speaker of Spanish and English. Leo’s question arose in response to a proposal to eliminate the brief [...]
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By David Weissbrodt, Joseph C. Hansen, and Nathaniel H. Nesbitt The interaction between human rights law and international humanitarian law (“IHL”) has received a great deal of scholarly attention. Much of the inquiry has focused on the conceptual space and normative [...]
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Click here to read full article (pdf) In response to rising Human Immunodeficiency Virus (“HIV”)-infection rates, poverty, and overpopulation, some nations have resorted to a policy of forcibly sterilizing HIV-positive women in order to prevent the transmission of HIV during childbirth. [...]
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By S. Chehani Ekaratne Click here to read full article (pdf) In the United Kingdom (“U.K.”), the Terrorism Act 2006 criminalizes statements likely to be understood as encouraging terrorism.1 Such statements include those that glorify terrorist acts.2 This offense is not a [...]
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By Juan Pablo Bohoslavsky and Veerle Opgenhaffen Click here to read full article (pdf) From 1976 to 1983, Argentina was ruled by a military dictatorship whose tactics included the widespread torture, murder, and enforced disappearance of thousands of people. Since the junta’s [...]
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By Remigius N Nwabueze Click here to read full article (pdf) The mistreatment of widows in Sub-Saharan Africa is both widespread and well-documented. Notorious forms of abuse include the disinheritance of widows, degrading and cruel mortuary practices, and compulsory levirate marriages.2 Among [...]
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By Chi Mgbako, Meghna Saxena, Anna Cave, Nasim Farjad, Helen Shin Click here to read full article (pdf) The African grassroots movement to eradicate female genital mutilation (also known as “female genital cutting” and “female circumcision,” hereinafter “FGM”) is widespread. While many [...]
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