Implementing the 1998 Torture Victims Relief Act

Implementing the 1998 Torture Victims Relief Act
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on International Relations. Subcommittee on Africa, Global Human Rights, and International Operations
Publisher:
Total Pages: 64
Release: 2005
Genre: Humanitarian assistance, American
ISBN:

Human Rights and Dynamic Humanism

Human Rights and Dynamic Humanism
Author: Winston P. Nagan
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 1025
Release: 2016-11-07
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9004315527

This book emphasizes a forgotten aspect of human rights, i.e., to establish that human rights captures its meaning from human activism and advocacy. It explores factors which drive the advocacy of human rights integrating religious values reflected in human rights law. The book explores human rights activism in the history of ideas and the contributions of Celtic culture. It develops the framework for understanding the human rights struggle and the advocacy functions which drive it, exploring the critical role of emotion in the form of sentiment, either positive or negative, that promotes or prevents human rights violations. The negative sentiment chapter explores the major forms of human rights violations. Positive sentiment explores the role of affect, empathy and human solidarity in the promotion of the culture of human rights. Further chapters explore affect, gender, and sexual orientation, human rights and socio-economic justice, human rights and revolution, transitional justice, indigenous human rights, nuclear weapons and intellectual property.

Adjudicating Refugee and Asylum Status

Adjudicating Refugee and Asylum Status
Author: Benjamin N. Lawrance
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 281
Release: 2015-02-26
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1316195112

In this book, legal, biomedical, psychosocial, and social science scholars and practitioners offer the first comparative account of the increasing dependence on expertise in the asylum and refugee status determination process. This volume presents a comprehensive study of the relevance of experts, as mediators of culture, who are called upon to corroborate, substantiate credibility, and serve as translators in the face of confusing legal standards that require proof of new forms and reasons for persecution around the globe. The authors provide insights into the evidentiary burdens on asylum seekers and the expanding role of expertise in the forms of country-conditions reports, biomedical and psychiatric evaluations, and the emerging field of forensic linguistic analysis in response to emerging forms of persecution, such as gender-based or sexuality-based persecution.

Legislative Calendar

Legislative Calendar
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary
Publisher:
Total Pages: 852
Release: 1997
Genre:
ISBN: