Category Archives: Human Rights

Broken Laws, Broken Lives

By admin | Published: September 27, 2011

Physicians for Human Rights Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) mobilizes health professionals to advance the health and dignity of all [...]

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The Use Of Rape In Armed Conflicts

By admin | Published: August 4, 2011

(Download as pdf) As with other armed conflicts including those of the former Yugoslavia, Dafar, the Democratic Republic of Congo, [...]

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Terrorism and Human Rights

By admin | Published: March 29, 2011

by Conor Gearty *Originally published in the journal, “Government and Opposition” Volume 42, No. 3 Summer 2007, p.340-362 (Download pdf) [...]

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Uighurs in Guantanamo Bay Prison: Innocents or Terrorists?

By admin | Published: March 29, 2011

by Janet Munro-Nelson Posted: January 2010 Updated 18 July 2011 (Download pdf) The group of 22 Uighurs imprisoned in the [...]

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The Legal Entitlement of a Future Palestinian State to Territory

By admin | Published: March 28, 2011

Editor’s Note: The following is an Abstract of “The Israel-Palestine Conflict in International Law: Territorial Issues” written by the authors [...]

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Terrorism & Morality

By admin | Published: March 28, 2011

Understanding the Language of Terrorism* by Conor Gearty *From, Essays on Human Rights and Terrorism: Comparative Approaches to Civil Liberties [...]

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