UN Protection of Civil and Political Rights, Public Civil Rights Agencies and Fair Employment: Promise vs. Performance, Human Rights, The United States, and World Community and The International Protection of National Minorities in Europe

1971 ◽  
Vol 47 (1) ◽  
pp. 135-137
Author(s):  
J. E. S. Fawcett
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Civil Rights ◽  
The United States ◽  
Political Rights ◽  
International Protection ◽  
World Community ◽  
National Minorities ◽  
Fair Employment ◽  
Civil And Political Rights

Extradition as the Violation of Human Rights. The Jurisprudence of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights

1996 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-33 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margaret De Merieux
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
The United States ◽  
Significant Part ◽  
Political Rights ◽  
State Party ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Civil And Political Rights

The decision of the Human Rights Committee in Kindler vs. Canada1 marked its first substantive decision on the subject of the violation of human rights under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) consequent upon extradition by a State Party, and making the extradition itself a violation of Covenant obligations. Two cases have followed — Chitat Ng vs. Canada2 and Cox vs. Canada.3 The requesting State in all cases was the United States and given the increase in the numbers of requests for extradition between Canada and that country, from 29 in 1980 to 88 in 1992 and the enthusiasm of Canadian lawyers for proceedings before the Committee, ‘litigation’ in this area is likely to form a significant part of the Committee's work in the future. The ensuing comment analyses the decisions and the issues raised.

Human Rights

Criminology ◽  
2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jay S. Albanese
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Civil Rights ◽  
The United States ◽  
Social Philosophy ◽  
Political Rights ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Civil And Political Rights ◽  
The Right ◽  
Criminology And Criminal Justice

The concept of human rights is an old idea, but its application to criminology and criminal justice is fairly new. Human rights are those rights seen as being fundamental freedoms to which all human beings are entitled. In the United States, they are referred to as civil rights, most of which are enumerated in the U.S. Constitution’s Bill of Rights and which include freedom of speech, assembly, privacy, equality before law, and other civil and political rights. Other countries have similar lists of rights guaranteed to all citizens. The notion of human rights goes beyond civil and political rights, however, and also commonly includes the right to opportunities for work, education, and fair treatment in all aspects of life. Writings on human rights cover centuries, consisting of many works of political and social philosophy that provide the basis for natural and individual rights in the face of the greater power of governments. Many of these classic works are summarized in other reference works, such as The Encyclopedia of Human Rights and The Oxford Handbook of Political Theory, both cited in this entry. This guide to sources focuses on contributions to human rights literature and their connections to criminology and criminal justice.

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.

The United States and human rights

1985 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 73-89
Author(s):  
Christopher Brewin
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
The United States ◽  
General Assembly ◽  
Social Rights ◽  
Political Rights ◽  
Bill Of Rights ◽  
Related Concept ◽  
Un General Assembly ◽  
Civil And Political Rights

These excellent books mark the reception in American thinking of the doctrine that economic and social rights (Shue, Brown/Maclean, Hoffmann, Vogelgesang, Falk) are at least as important as the civil and political rights of Henkin's ‘International Bill of Rights’. The English contribution to this literature, the collection of documents edited by Brownlie, makes no distinction between sets of rights; and by reprinting work by Prebisch and Figueres, Brownlie promotes the thesis that development and human rights go together. However, it is worth noticing that all these authors ignore the efforts by the majority of countries in the UN General Assembly and the Commission on Human Rights to assert the related concept of rights to development, notably in GA Resolution 32/130 (1977).

Remarks by Bert Lockwood

1973 ◽  
Vol 67 (5) ◽  
pp. 82-86
Author(s):  
Bert Lockwood ◽  
Beatrice Brickell
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Political Process ◽  
The United States ◽  
International Justice ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Rights ◽  
Southern Rhodesia

I would like to address myself to international outlaws and what domestic procedures are available to arrest their activities. While at first glance the nexus between domestic justice and international justice may seem tenuous, I wonder: Is it surprising that the same administration that is so insensate over the deprivation of the human rights of blacks in Southern Rhodesia is the same administration that proclaimed early in its tenure that if you have seen one slum you have pretty much seen them all, and hasn’t visited another since? Is it surprising that the same administration that evidences so little concern over the political rights of the majority in Rhodesia is the same administration that “bugs” and sabotages the political process within the United States?

The Law of Personal Status: Wives, Paupers, and Slaves

2019 ◽  
pp. 173-212
Author(s):  
Lawrence M. Friedman
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Civil Rights ◽  
Common Law ◽  
White Men ◽  
The United States ◽  
Political Rights ◽  
Poor Laws ◽  
Marriage And Divorce ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Law

This chapter discusses the law on marriage and divorce, family property, adoption, poor laws and social welfare, and slavery and African Americans in the United States. In the colonial period, the United States had no courts to handle matters of marriage and divorce. Marriage was a contract—an agreement between a man and a woman. Under the rules of the common law, the country belonged to the whites; and more specifically, it belonged to white men. Women had civil rights but no political rights. There were no formal provisions for adoption. A Massachusetts law, passed in 1851, was one of the earliest, and most significant, general adoption law. The so-called poor laws were the basic welfare laws.

The Persecution of Political and Social Scientists in Brazil

1970 ◽  
Vol 3 (02) ◽  
pp. 123-128
Author(s):  
Philippe C. Schmitter
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Civil Rights ◽  
The United States ◽  
Churches Of Christ ◽  
National Council ◽  
Political Rights ◽  
Porto Alegre ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Equal Concern ◽  
Established Order

In recent issues ofPS, American political and social scientists have been accused – by their colleagues – ofsubservienceto the established order. Of equal concern to the profession should be the paradoxical plight of their Brazilian colleagues who, while pursuing much the same goals and utilizing many of the same techniques of inquiry, find themselves accused – by their government – ofsubversion, and very actively persecuted for this charge.The following is a description of the situation of Brazilian social scientists since December 1968. Official censorship, self-imposed prudence and the understandable propensity for foreign journalists to concentrate on the more spectacular and horrifying aspects of Brazil's current regime, e.g. torture, assassination by “political police” or vigilante group, arbitrary arrest and loss of political rights by prominent politicians, make it difficult to obtain reliable documentation. Much of the information I gathered personally during a three week stay in Rio de Janeiro, Sāo Paulo and Pôrto Alegre in May of 1969. This has been updated with the help of Brazilian scholars resident in the United States. For obvious reasons I cannot recognize their efforts personally. I would, however, like to thank Mr. William Wipfler of National Council of the Churches of Christ and Professor Ralph Della Cava of Queens University who are preparing a comprehensive dossier on civil rights violations for proximate publication. Peter Bell, formerly with the Ford Foundation in Rio, has been particularly helpful with information and criticism.

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