Canada and United Nations peace operations: challenges, opportunities, and Canada's response.
Canadians take pride in the peacekeeping legacy of their country. Looking back over the history of United Nations (UN) peace operations, episodes that loom large include Lester B. Pearson's role in the creation of the first peacekeeping force, the rapid deployment of Canadian troops to Cyprus, the battles of...

Ahfad University for women (AUW) has concluded its celebrations of the centennial of girl's education in Sudan by a National Conference on Education for All Living together: challenges and opportunities between the 4th and 6th of December, 2007.
Ahfad University for women (AUW) has concluded its celebrations of the centennial of girl's education in Sudan by a National Conference on Education for All Living together: challenges and opportunities between the 4th and 6th of December, 2007. The conference was carried out in collaboration with the Federal Ministry...

Challenges of peace research.
Abstract The Secretary General of the International Peace Research Association (IPRA) responds to one of the most frequently asked questions in the field of peace studies: "What are the challenges facing peace researchers in the 21 century?" In the first section he notes that, in some ways,...

Amnesty International Calls Pentagon Official's Remarks 'Irresponsible'.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 14 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Amnesty International executive director Larry Cox issued the following statement in response to Charles Stimson's, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Detainee Affairs, comments regarding attorneys that represent detainees at the Guantanamo Bay detention center and international calls for the center's closure: ...

International adjudicators and judicial independence.
What are the consequences to the United States legal system of the decisions of adjudicatory tribunals acting pursuant to treaties and other international agreements to which the United States is a party? This question and its variants are likely to increase in importance as the number and significance of...

AIUSA and CCR Urge President Bush to Close Guantanamo Bay on 5th Anniversary of First Detainee Arrivals.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 11 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- On the 5th anniversary of the arrival of the first detainees at the U.S.-controlled detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, Amnesty International USA (AIUSA) and the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) urge President Bush and his administration to close down the Guantanamo prison. On...

International law and the United States Constitution in conflict: a case study on the Second Amendment.
I. INTRODUCTION II. THE AMERICAN RIGHT TO BEAR ARMS A. Legal Status 1. History 2. Text 3. Case Law B. Cultural Status III. THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN INTERNATIONAL LAW AND UNITED STATES MUNICIPAL LAW A. The United States Constitution B. International Law 1. Treaties 2. Customary International Law C. Conflicts...

The promise and limitations of international human rights activism.
Breaking Silence: The Case that Changed the Face of Human Rights by Richard Alan White. Washington D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 2004. 320 pp. International human rights doctrine and international law have increasingly come to recognize that the international community has an interest in and responsibility to uphold...

Emerging global actors: the United Nations and national human rights institutions.
There is a new and significant development in the field of human rights: the U.N. led proliferation of national human rights institutions (NHRIs). NHRIs are government agencies whose purported aim is to implement international norms domestically. These institutions have expanded considerably since the early 1990s, quadrupling in number and...

Internationalization, Democracy, and Food Safety Measures: The (Il)Legitimacy of Consumer Preferences?
Reconciling internationalization with democracy is a matter of considerable interest and importance. As a mode of governance, democracy presumes the relevance of the territorial state; the geographic scope of those who exercise political authority coincides with the population that they represent and are accountable to and that have a...