Trial by Human
Author: Nicholas Rowley
Publisher:
Published: 2013-01-01
Total Pages: 350
ISBN-13: 9781934833810
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Nicholas Rowley
Publisher:
Published: 2013-01-01
Total Pages: 350
ISBN-13: 9781934833810
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Justine Lacroix
Publisher: Human Rights in History
Published: 2018-05-31
Total Pages: 269
ISBN-13: 1108424392
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The first contemporary overview of the critiques of human rights in Western political thought, from the French Revolution to the present day.
Author: Richard Price
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2011-06-06
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 0812203720
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Rainforest Warriors is a historical, ethnographic, and documentary account of a people, their threatened rainforest, and their successful attempt to harness international human rights law in their fight to protect their way of life—part of a larger story of tribal and indigenous peoples that is unfolding all over the globe. The Republic of Suriname, in northeastern South America, contains the highest proportion of rainforest within its national territory, and the most forest per person, of any country in the world. During the 1990s, its government began awarding extensive logging and mining concessions to multinational companies from China, Indonesia, Canada, and elsewhere. Saramaka Maroons, the descendants of self-liberated African slaves who had lived in that rainforest for more than 300 years, resisted, bringing their complaints to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. In 2008, when the Inter-American Court of Human Rights delivered its landmark judgment in their favor, their efforts to protect their threatened rainforest were thrust into the international spotlight. Two leaders of the struggle to protect their way of life, Saramaka Headcaptain Wazen Eduards and Saramaka law student Hugo Jabini, were awarded the Goldman Prize for the Environment (often referred to as the environmental Nobel Prize), under the banner of "A New Precedent for Indigenous and Tribal Peoples." Anthropologist Richard Price, who has worked with Saramakas for more than forty years and who participated actively in this struggle, tells the gripping story of how Saramakas harnessed international human rights law to win control of their own piece of the Amazonian forest and guarantee their cultural survival.
Author: Courtney Rowley
Publisher:
Published: 2018-10-15
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9781941007815
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Christopher Hitchens
Publisher: Verso
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 198
ISBN-13: 9781859843987
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In this incendiary book, Hitchens takes the floor as prosecuting counsel and mounts a devastating indictment of Henry Kissinger, whose ambitions and ruthlessness have directly resulted in both individual murders and widespread, indiscriminate slaughter.
Author: Tim Allen
Publisher: Zed Books Ltd.
Published: 2013-04-04
Total Pages: 212
ISBN-13: 1848137931
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The International Criminal Court (ICC) has run into serious problems with its first big case -- the situation in northern Uganda. There is no doubt that appalling crimes have occurred here. Over a million people have been forced to live in overcrowded displacement camps under the control of the Ugandan army. Joseph Kony's Lord's Resistance Army has abducted thousands, many of them children and has systematically tortured, raped, maimed and killed. Nevertheless, the ICC has confronted outright hostility from a wide range of groups, including traditional leaders, representatives of the Christian Churches and non-governmental organizations. Even the Ugandan government, which invited the court to become involved, has been expressing serious reservations. Tim Allen assesses the controversy. While recognizing the difficulties involved, he shows that much of the antipathy towards the ICC's intervention is misplaced. He also draws out important wider implications of what has happened. Criminal justice sets limits to compromise and undermines established procedures of negotiation with perpetrators of violence. Events in Uganda have far reaching implications for other war zones - and not only in Africa. Amnesties and peace talks may never be quite the same again.
Author: Arthur Croft
Publisher:
Published: 2018-11-15
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9781941007822
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Michael E. Tigar
Publisher:
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 500
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book tells the stories of nine iconic trials. The themes of these cases include treason, racial justice, the death penalty, fraud, personal rights, women's rights, product safety, and corporate misdeeds. The chapters show lawyers at work, creating a relationship with a litigant seeking justice, and then taking that claim into the courtroom. These chapters are excellent vehicles for teaching all the elements of trial advocacy, including jury selection, opening statement, direct and cross-examination, use of expert testimony, and closing argument. The book shows us that advocacy does make a difference, and that advocacy skills can be taught and learned.
Author: Whitney R. Harris
Publisher:
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 608
ISBN-13: 9781566199537
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Joane Garcia-Colson
Publisher: Trial Guides, LLC
Published: 2010-01-01
Total Pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9781934833193
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