Senate Reports

Senate Reports
Author: United States. Congress. Senate
Publisher: Government Printing Office
Total Pages: 1530
Release: 1996
Genre:
ISBN:

Implementing Recommendations of the 9/11 Commission Act of 2007

Implementing Recommendations of the 9/11 Commission Act of 2007
Author: House (U S )
Publisher: Government Printing Office
Total Pages: 1360
Release: 2007-08
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9780160790683

NOTE: NO FURTHER DISCOUNT FOR THIS PRINT PRODUCT--OVERSTOCK SALE-- Significantly reduced list price while supplies last This public law 110-53 was initiated by the 110th U.S. Congress on August 3, 2007. This document includes the following guidance:: U.S. Homeland Security grants program and how they are to be used with States and High Risk Urban Areas; Emergency management performance grants program to include model standards and guidelines for critical infrastructure workers; Improving Intelligence and information sharing within the Federal Government and with State, local, and tribal Governments; Hurricane Katrina Aftermath grants and support, and more. Intelligence community, and Homeland security employees, contractors, and emergency management workers as well as corporations and personnel that assisted with the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks on American soil may be interested in this volume. Historians and students participating in class discussions about 9/11 and strategies to make our country stronger in these vulnerabilities may benefit from this volume. Related products: Natural & Environmental Disasters resources collection is available here: https://bookstore.gpo.gov/catalog/environment-nature/natural-environmental-disasters Emergency Management and First Responders resources collection can be found here: https://bookstore.gpo.gov/catalog/security-defense-law-enforcement/emergency-management-first-responders Terrorism & 9/11 History collection is available here: https://bookstore.gpo.gov/catalog/us-military-history

The Local Relevance of Human Rights

The Local Relevance of Human Rights
Author: Koen De Feyter
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 407
Release: 2011-09-08
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1139501550

Do human rights offer real protection when disadvantaged groups invoke them at the local level in an attempt to improve their living conditions? If so, how can we make sure that the experiences of those invoking human rights at the local level have an impact on the further development of human rights (at national and other levels) so that the local relevance of human rights increases? Since the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) on 10 December 1948, numerous international documents have reaffirmed human rights as global norms. This book examines what factors determine whether appeals to human rights that emanate from the local level are successful, and whether the UDHR adequately responds to threats as currently defined by relevant groups or whether a revision of some of the ideas included in the UDHR is needed in order to increase its contemporary relevance.