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3 Mar 2011, 1:35 am by Adam Wagner
Phelps (09-751), United States Supreme Court – Read judgment A recent decision of the United States Supreme Court, in which it upheld the rights of a radical anti-gay Christian group to protest at military funerals, provides a useful opportunity to compare free speech protections here to those provided over the pond. [read post]
1 Mar 2011, 11:30 am
Advocacy campaigns she's led have targeted the United Nations and its member states, various branches of the U.S. government, members of the Organization of American States and other regional bodies, international financial institutions, and corporations. [read post]
28 Feb 2011, 10:04 pm by Social Sciences Faculty Librarian
” ReliefWeb is administered by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), and was started in 1996. [read post]
28 Feb 2011, 7:17 am by Pace Law School Library
[et al.] ; written by Johnny O'Hara ; directed by Josh TickellRisk AnalysisThe reality of precaution : comparing risk regulation in the United States and Europe / edited by Jonathan B. [read post]
27 Feb 2011, 11:01 pm by Adam Wagner
 This language has been mirrored in a number of more modern legal sources, including Article 5 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1948, the 1984 United Nations Convention against Torture which 147 of the 192 members of the UN, including the UK, have signed up to (para 28) and the 8th Amendment to the United States Constitution. [read post]
27 Feb 2011, 2:57 pm by michael a. livingston
Puns like this remind us that, no matter how secular Israeli writers are, they inevitably are part of a much broader tradition that--like Dante in Italy or Whitman in the United States--affects them even if they struggle to break away from it.A further Israeli stamp is provided by the role of the Yom Kippur War, now almost 40 years old but still playing the same central literary role that it did in the 1970s. [read post]
27 Feb 2011, 1:39 pm by Rick
Today, at least in the United States, the same principles are making a comeback. [read post]
25 Feb 2011, 7:18 pm by Kenneth Anderson
 The action is back around nation-states in a heightened Westphalian competitiveness mode, and I trust that folks at the Pentagon are not so focused on n0n-state actor threats that they have forgotten about the spectre of state-to-state wars, whether the Koreas, China and Taiwan, Pakistan and India, Russia and Georgia among other places, just to name off the nuclear players in this. [read post]
25 Feb 2011, 6:42 pm by Kenneth Anderson
The action is back around nation-states in a heightened Westphalian competitiveness mode, and I trust that folks at the Pentagon are not so focused on n0n-state actor threats that they have forgotten about the spectre of state-to-state wars, whether the Koreas, China and Taiwan, Pakistan and India, Russia and Georgia among other places, just to name off the nuclear players in this. [read post]
25 Feb 2011, 9:18 am
  Michael Greger is director of Public Health and Animal Agriculture in the farm animal welfare division of the Humane Society of the United States. [read post]
24 Feb 2011, 6:45 am by Cristina Finch
The importance of integrating women and gender into all aspects of the United Nations will help ensure women’s voices are heard in all arenas and fulfill our human rights. [read post]
23 Feb 2011, 4:02 pm by INFORRM
” The article reports views from a conference in the United States where the attendees noted there was a whole new industry of reputation-restoration firms like the UK-based Kwikch [read post]
22 Feb 2011, 4:09 pm by INFORRM
In practice, UK freedom of speech rights are more constrained than, for example, in the United States, where even “hate speech” is generally protected under the First Amendment to the US Constitution (see Adam Wagner’s post on the Congressman Giffords shooting for more). [read post]
21 Feb 2011, 4:07 pm by INFORRM
Gillooly[8] notes that Amendments 1 – 10 of the United States Constitution, commonly referred to as the Bill of Rights, stand at one end of the scale, while Australia stands at the other end (the United Kingdom, New Zealand and Canada being somewhere in the middle), and that the question is how human rights can be protected from what he calls “the tyranny of the majority”. [read post]
21 Feb 2011, 11:20 am by Roshonda Scipio
[Washington, D.C.] : American Academy of Diplomacy : United States Holocaust Memorial Museum : United States Institute of Peace, 2008.ImmigrationKJC6044 .C67 2010Immigration detention and human rights : rethinking territorial sovereignty / by Galina Cornelisse.Cornelisse, Galina.Leiden ; Boston : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2010.ImmigrationJV6450 .M366 2011A nation of immigrants / Susan F. [read post]
20 Feb 2011, 10:59 pm by Isabel McArdle
In practice, UK freedom of speech rights are more constrained than, for example, in the United States, where even “hate speech” is generally protected under the First Amendment to the US Constitution (see Adam Wagner’s post on the Congressman Giffords shooting for more). [read post]