The Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement: an innovation in international standard setting.
In the last decade of the twentieth century, an explosion of civil wars brought a pressing new problem onto the international agenda--the plight of internally displaced persons (IDPs), people forced from their homes by conflict, communal violence, or egregious human rights violations who remain uprooted and at risk within...

China's international socialization: the role of international organizations.
The many questions surrounding China's entry into the World Trade Organization (WTO) and its potential compliance with WTO rules direct scholarly attention toward the record of its compliance with the norms, rules, and treaties of other international organizations and the role of these bodies over the past three decades...

Traffic in human beings: at the intersection of criminal justice, human rights, asylum/migration and labor.
I. TRAFFICKING IN CONTEXT Trafficking in human beings is a worldwide phenomenon that affects the lives of hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of people each year. (1) The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) reports that human beings are trafficked from 127 source countries...

International law and the entitlement to democracy after war.
Since the end of the Cold War, the international community has engaged in two tasks that run contrary to traditional notions of state sovereignty. The first is the reconstruction of domestic political institutions in states emerging from civil war. The second is the promotion of liberal democracy as the...

Comparative models of reporting mechanisms on the status of trafficking in human beings.
ABSTRACT A comprehensive approach to combating trafficking in human beings requires precise knowledge of the scope of the problem and constant evaluation of government responses. Reporting on the status of human trafficking achieves both goals. This Article is designed to examine the various human trafficking reporting mechanisms,...

Services as objects of international trade: bartering the legal profession.
ABSTRACT The General Agreement on Trade in Service calls for members of the World Trade Organization (WTO) to further liberalize and expand opportunities for international trade in services. With legal services included in this mandate, requests for specific commitments and offers have been made by WTO Member...

Toward facilitating a voice for politically marginalized minorities and enhancing presidential public accountability and transparency in foreign health policymaking.
ABSTRACT Residents of underdeveloped countries who belong to ethnic, racial, sexual, and political minorities usually endure relatively ineffective political voices. More than any other world population segment, these marginalized people are vulnerable to, and suffer from, compromised health and life expectancies. Their immense human tolls have spawned...

STATEMENTS.
Background The WCC central committee adopted a major policy statement on uprooted people in 1995, emphasizing the increasingly grave plight of refugees and migrants in a time of escalating conflicts around the world. Over the past five years the situation has become much worse still. The pressures...

Statements on public issues.
STATEMENT ON IRAQ The World Council of Churches (WCC) central committee meeting in Geneva, Switzerland, 26 August-2 September 2003, five months after the pre-emptive, illegal attack on Iraq, --recalling all of the WCC's previous relevant policy statements on Iraq, in particular its statements made since...

Delineating the interests of justice.
INTRODUCTION The Chief Prosecutor (the Prosecutor) (1) of the International Criminal Court (ICC) has the discretion to forego investigations as well as prosecutions in the "interests of justice." This mechanism is one means by which the demands of the nascent international criminal law regime could be reconciled...