Perspectives on the ‘Stand Your Ground’ Movement: Testimony Submitted to the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Human Rights, Hearing on ‘Stand Your Ground’ Laws: Civil Rights and Public Safety: Implications of the Expanded Use of Deadly Force'

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Spitzer
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Civil Rights ◽  
Public Safety ◽  
Deadly Force ◽  
Ground Movement ◽  
Judiciary Committee ◽  
The U.S

The 9/11 Generation

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sunaina Marr Maira
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Young People ◽  
Civil Rights ◽  
South Asian ◽  
War On Terror ◽  
Youth Activism ◽  
The Political ◽  
Muslim Youth ◽  
Political Solidarity ◽  
The U.S

In The 9/11 Generation, Sunaina Marr Maira uses extensive ethnography to understand the meaning of political subjecthood and mobilization for Arab, South Asian, and Afghan American youth. Maira explores how young people from communities targeted in the War on Terror engage with the “political,” forging coalitions based on new racial and ethnic categories, even while they are under constant scrutiny and surveillance, and organizing around notions of civil rights and human rights. The 9/11 Generation explores the possibilities and pitfalls of rights-based organizing at a moment when the vocabulary of rights and democracy has been used to justify imperial interventions, such as the U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Maira further reconsiders political solidarity in cross-racial and interfaith alliances at a time when U.S. nationalism is understood as not just multicultural but also post-racial. Throughout, she weaves stories of post-9/11 youth activism through key debates about neoliberal democracy, the “radicalization” of Muslim youth, gender, and humanitarianism.

Legislative Attempts, 1983–1988

2021 ◽  
pp. 239-259
Author(s):  
Max Waltman
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Civil Rights ◽  
Political Influence ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Body Parts ◽  
Incremental Change ◽  
Obscenity Law ◽  
The U.S

The chapter compares Canadian and U.S. legislative challenges. It delineates the 1983–1985 Canadian Fraser Committee’s liberal-conservative compromise, which rejected the women’s movement’s evidence-based demands that called for a civil rights approach like that endorsed by the U.S. Attorney General’s Commission. The minor, incremental change of the Fraser Committee’s recommendations is examined: the similarity to existing obscenity law and the reliance on general human rights legislation, as opposed to adopting specific legal measures that would recognize the intersectional grounds necessary to empower those victimized. Likewise, significant parliamentary attempts in 1986–1988 to reform Canadian obscenity law are assessed, including flaws such as “body-parts” definitional approaches that fail to acknowledge the context of subordination and various potentially overbroad provisions or loopholes. The chapter concludes that by contrast to its U.S. counterpart, the Canadian feminist anti-pornography movement lacked sufficient focus or political influence to impact legislative deliberations in the desired direction.

Contemporary Practice of the United States Relating to International Law

1995 ◽  
Vol 89 (3) ◽  
pp. 589-600 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marian Nash (Leich)
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Civil Rights ◽  
The United States ◽  
Executive Branch ◽  
Political Rights ◽  
Attorneys General ◽  
Civil Rights Division ◽  
Contemporary Practice ◽  
The U.S

On March 29,1995, the following officials of the executive branch of the U.S. Government appeared before the Human Rights Committee at the United Nations to discuss U.S. implementation of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (which had entered into force for the United States on September 8, 1992): John Shattuck, Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, and Conrad K. Harper, the Department’s Legal Adviser; Assistant Attorneys General Deval L. Patrick, Civil Rights Division, and Jo Ann Harris, Criminal Division; and Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Indian Affairs Ada Deer. The same officials, together with other members of the U.S. delegation, appeared again on March 31, 1995, to reply to questions raised by the Committee.

Palestine Unbound

2018 ◽  
Vol 47 (3) ◽  
pp. 130-134
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Task Force ◽  
The United States ◽  
Donald Trump ◽  
Tel Aviv ◽  
The Us ◽  
Intention To Move ◽  
Arab Israeli Conflict ◽  
The U.S

This section, updated regularly on the blog Palestine Square, covers popular conversations related to the Palestinians and the Arab-Israeli conflict during the quarter 16 November 2017 to 15 February 2018: #JerusalemIstheCapitalofPalestine went viral after U.S. president Donald Trump recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and announced his intention to move the U.S. embassy there from Tel Aviv. The arrest of Palestinian teenager Ahed Tamimi for slapping an Israeli soldier also prompted a viral campaign under the hashtag #FreeAhed. A smaller campaign protested the exclusion of Palestinian human rights from the agenda of the annual Creating Change conference organized by the US-based National LGBTQ Task Force in Washington. And, UNRWA publicized its emergency funding appeal, following the decision of the United States to slash funding to the organization, with the hashtag #DignityIsPriceless.

Too Close for Comfort: Canada, the U.S. Civil Rights Movement, and the North American Colo(u)r Line

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Asa McKercher
Keyword(s):  
Civil Rights ◽  
Civil Rights Movement ◽  
North American ◽  
The North ◽  
The U.S

Too Close for Comfort: Canada, the U.S. Civil Rights Movement, and the North American Colo(u)r Line

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