Poverty Law and Equality Rights: Preliminary Reflections
Wednesday, 29 June 2022
by James C. Hathaway, University of Michigan Law School Abstract The traditional governmental response to the phenomenon of poverty has been the enactment of legislation to permit or effect the transfer of some measure of economic resources to the poor. From feudal times to the present, governments of our political tradition have consistently embraced an
- Published in Law
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Torture and Islamic Law
Wednesday, 22 June 2022
Abstract This article considers the relationship between Islamic law and the absence or practice of investigative torture in the countries of today’s Muslim world. Torture is forbidden in the constitutions, statutes, and treaties of most Muslim-majority countries, but a number of these countries are regularly named among those in which torture is practiced with apparent
- Published in Essays, Jurisprudence
Systemic Racism in the U.S. Immigration Laws
Wednesday, 22 June 2022
UN Human Rights Report Says Israel Guilty of ‘Apartheid’
Thursday, 24 March 2022
The UN’s human rights body has accused Israel of the “crime of apartheid,” saying it has established a “regime of systematic racial oppression and discrimination” against Palestinians. The conclusion follows a long line of similar findings from from Israeli, Palestinian and international organizations. A report issued Monday by United Nations investigator Michael Lynk states that
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Treatise On Rights
Friday, 11 February 2022
Treatise On Rights رسالة الحقوق [Risalat al-Huquq] Attributed to Imam Ali Zayn al-Abidin In the Name of Allah, the All-merciful, the All-compassionate Know – God have mercy upon you – that God has rights against you and that these encompass you in every movement through which you move, every rest through which you
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UN: “Stop denying racism, start dismantling it”
Monday, 12 July 2021
UN Human Rights Chief urges immediate, transformative action to uproot systemic racism GENEVA (28 June 2021) – UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet on Monday issued an urgent call for States to adopt a “transformative agenda” to uproot systemic racism, as she published a report casting a spotlight on the litany of violations
- Published in Human Rights News, In The News, Reports
Sharia and Human Rights
Tuesday, 22 June 2021
- Published in Essays, Journal, Jurisprudence
Applying the Systems Thinking Framework to Human Rights
Monday, 21 June 2021
The Systems Thinking Framework is not a new approach to problem solving. It is, however, unknown or new to most researchers and scholars active in the broad areas of scholarly inquiry known as social sciences and the humanities. For scientists and researchers in physics and biological, engineering, and computer sciences however, systems thinking has been
- Published in Essays
