Judgeships in Iran: Step Down, You are a Woman: A legal analysis of international human rights: A history of woman's rights in Iran and women judges in the United States. By Delaram Farzaneh . Lake Mary, FL: Vandeplas Publishing, 2017. ISBN: 978-1600422881. US$ 49.95.

2017 ◽  
Vol 45 (3) ◽  
pp. 262-263
Author(s):  
Marc Stickgold
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
The United States ◽  
Legal Analysis ◽  
International Human Rights ◽  
Women Judges ◽  
History Of ◽  
International Human ◽  
Step Down ◽  
Woman's Rights

Continuing the Conversation on Chinese Human Rights

1997 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
pp. 177-205 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roger T. Ames
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Cultural Differences ◽  
The United States ◽  
Cultural Relativism ◽  
International Human Rights ◽  
Confucian Values ◽  
Universal Human Rights ◽  
History Of ◽  
International Human

In recent years China has entered the international human rights debate, consistently making the case for cultural diversity in the formulation of human rights policy. Ames follows this argument of cultural relativism, emphasizing China's cultural differences and critiquing the concept of universal human rights, particularly as presented by Jack Donnelly in his book Universal Human Rights. Discussing the history of universal human rights and Confucian values, Ames asserts that a growing dialogue between China and the United States would benefit China in terms of political and individual rights and the United States in terms of a greater sense of civic virtue.

Ainu

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kiyoteru Tsutsui
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Indigenous People ◽  
Indigenous Rights ◽  
The United States ◽  
International Exchange ◽  
International Human Rights ◽  
History Of ◽  
International Human ◽  
Official Recognition

This chapter starts with an examination of the long history of Ainu’s subjugation to mainland Japanese and their quiet acquiescence until the 1970s, when the Hokkaido Utari Association began to engage in international exchange. The international experiences from the 1970s gradually transformed Ainu leaders’ movement actorhood, leading to much more assertive collective mobilization by Ainu that leveraged international human rights forums with help from transnational activists. Their international activities exerted significant pressures on the Japanese government, prompting legislation of new laws to protect and promote Ainu culture and an official recognition of Ainu as an indigenous people. Ainu activists also contributed to the consolidation and expansion of international human and indigenous rights forums, legitimating the issue of indigenous rights outside typical settler colonies such as the United States, Canada, and Australia, and bringing in some resources to international indigenous forums.

scholarly journals Party positions over international human rights treaties in the United States in the Post-Cold War

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 24-50
Author(s):  
Flávio Contrera ◽  
Matheus Lucas Hebling
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Cold War ◽  
Comparative Method ◽  
The United States ◽  
International Human Rights ◽  
Post Cold War ◽  
Party Positions ◽  
Human Rights Treaties ◽  
International Human

This article aimed to verify the occurrence of convergence and congruence in the positions that the Democratic and Republican parties express about human rights treaties in the Electoral, in the Executive, and the Legislative arenas, in the Post-Cold War (1992-2016). The use of the comparative method guided the study of six specific cases, analyzed using qualitative techniques. The results point to two trends. The first is that the possibility of convergence between the Democratic and Republican parties tends to diminish when their positions on human rights treaties are anchored by ideological perspectives, and the second is that a party’s position on a treaty tends to be congruent among political arenas. Moreover, the divergence of positions between the parties clarifies the liberal internationalist character of the Democratic positions and the conservative isolationist approach of the Republican positions.

scholarly journals George Floyd’s Murder

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 48-66
Author(s):  
Farnaz Raees Kazemi ◽  
Moosa Akefi Ghaziani
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Racial Discrimination ◽  
The United States ◽  
Historical Background ◽  
Human Rights Law ◽  
International Human Rights ◽  
Political Agitation ◽  
International Human ◽  
The Government

George Floyd’s murder by the police in Minneapolis provoked widespread political agitation across the country. It once again highlighted the problematic racial dimension of policing and eggregious violation of human rights commitments on the part of the government. In this article we explore how the human rights law and racism in the United States interact with each other? We employ qualitative research based on descriptive-analytical method and divide the article in four parts: a brief introduction, a historical background of racism, a conceptual comprehension of racial discrimination and a brief survey of the international human rights instruments against racism, and the onground situation of racial discrimination in the country. We conclude that the process of negotiation between human rights law and racism in the United States is far from settled yet.

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