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the Court Able to Curb Political Prosecutions? , 37 Md. J KATE LEISNER† I. INTRODUCTION America’s disastrous war in Afghanistan may be over, but the path toward accountability has just begun. In ... question—can the Court restrain a political prosecutor? Decades before the Afghanistan investigation, the drafters of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (the Rome Statute) anticipated
, Robert Gilpin, is the Dwight D. Eisenhower Professor of International Affairs at Princeton University. His treatise fits squarely into the synthesis of political and economic study of the international ... recently written: "There can be no question that the study of international political economy has received insufficient attention in both economics and political science. ' S Yet, this gap has been narrowed
thrust and speed of privatization. See FORREST, supra note 63 at 224. 124. A TCPC employee explained the operating philosophy in the following manner. Because of the political nature of the ... lawyer on a decade of the privatization phenomenon across the globe,4 and explores its implications for the quest for economic growth and stable liberal political order in sub-Saharan Africa. My primary
arena.3 The Universal Declaration explicitly includes political rights among the human rights it seeks to * Marbury Research Professor of Law and Founding Director, Women, Leadership & Equality Program
advocacy efforts to ensure that nutrition remains high on the political agenda and that the right policies, governance structures and actions are put in place to foster accountability across stakeholders.57
fails to encourage global health researchers to work collaboratively and to capture the political and public awareness required to motivate sustainable change. ... , non-communicable diseases, universal health coverage, World Health Organization As three-letter acronyms for groups of diseases go, have the non-communicable diseases (NCDs) captured political and
Victoria focus was short-lived due to changes in government priorities and the political upheavals of the 1970s and 1980s. With the return of political stability, annual treatment with ivermectin through ... were concerned that the country, with more than 50 years of sporadic onchocerciasis control activities, could not continue with business as usual. With the return of peace and political stability
multitude of identities and to respect the different ways Indigenous peoples straddle political, cultural, and personal identities no matter how he, she, or they classify themselves. but the bill never made ... , reparations, and prosecutions, the hope is to create a more just and secure political order.11 While the United States has supported transitional justice efforts in other countries,12 it has never sponsored a
trajectory of a ―political philosophy‖ born out of the conviction that it ―was justified in light of reason and was, therefore, beyond the reach of historical change . . . .‖15 What this leads to, for ... . For many, violence, human rights violations on the body, has a rapacious capacity to devour ―the political.‖ Violence is a thing apart, an uncontrolled and uncontrollable phenomenon that destroys the
raised in the context of the prosecutions of the Arizona sanctuary workers). MD. JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL LAW & TRADE est in political philosophy, is problematic, however, given the complexity of the ... last decade. The book also raises, but fails to answer completely, the moral question: "What do we owe people who are not a part of our political communities?" A satisfactory answer to this question, one
idea of allembracing unity. See Fairbank, supra note 3, at 2. This traditional world outlook was further legitimized by Confucianist political philosophy that advocated peace and harmony in a ... relations between Taiwan and Mainland China. 1. Karl Marx, The 18th Brumaire of Louis Napoleon, reprinted in KARL MARX & FRIEDRICH ENGELS, BASIC WRITINGS ON POLITICS AND PHILOSOPHY 320 (Lewis S. Feuer ed
political philosophy have lost their cogency since rights in both categories build on a shared understanding of core values of freedom, autonomy, equality and solidarity at a particular historical moment and ... (UDHR) integrated civil and political rights (CPR) with economic, social, and cultural rights (ESCR), and that the two International Covenants separated them. * François-Xavier Bagnoud Professor of Health
Before changing the political regime, Hungary was almost exclusively affected by the Soviet and Eastern- European communist countries whose impact was profound on Hungarian education system as well ... country was the changing of the regime in 1989 when the impact of the Soviet policy including the philosophy of education came to an end. “ The new constitution paid tribute to the memory of the Revolution
geography of the endemic area and the current political and military unrest both underscore a need for special approaches when attempting to eliminate onchocerciasis from this country. An assessment of the ... faced with serious political and financial challenges, together with extreme civil disruption due to serious factional fighting. Currently, widespread and serious food shortages, famine and outbreaks of
that are shaped by ecological and political contexts. This commentary emphasises the need for implementation research to address implementation gaps in the control of NTDs. With a specific focus on sub ... or 'magic-bullet' for control and elimination of Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) is flawed. NTDs are embedded within complex biological and social systems that are shaped by ecological and political
might seem that there are quite insurmountable political differences, as well as legal hurdles, to carry us over the threshold to a waiver. My source for looking at this, these particular obligations on ... Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. Before I elaborate on these two norms and explain why they should be the predicate basis for how states are negotiating solutions in regard to the TRIPS framework and
government from adhering to constitutional norms—the plenary powers doctrine.11 When Congress enacts immigration laws or the Executive Branch acts pursuant to the laws, courts have construed the political ... applied to immigration laws and policies providing the executive and political branches a neutral cover for discriminatory policies and enforcement practices.23 While U.S. immigration laws have largely
old-fashioned conceptual framework. It creates new fears and yet offers little new insights. The so-called ―realism‖—characteristic of the Bush Administration‘s political philosophy within neocon policy ... its basic legal and political strategy in its relations with the United States on human rights after the invasion of Iraq in 2003. It shifted from a defensive discourse to an offensive discourse by
political climates that hinder the elimination task in this remote and relatively neglected region. As with other elimination efforts, ‘the final inch’ is often the most difficult task of all. ... assistance, coordination, laboratory assistance and quality control, advocacy, political will, supplemental financial assistance and resource mobilization. The PAHO plays a key role in the verification process
post-1948 U.N. Charter political order, international treaties, and national constitutions, in the 1990s the need to protect and promote religious freedom took on a new importance and urgency. Freedom ... , including the increased salience of religious identity in the world, and the intellectual and political resistance posed to secularist assumptions about human flourishing by a variety of social movements