Klasing,Amanda M. (Author) and Brody,Reed (Author)
Format:
Pamphlet
Publication Date:
Apr 2011
Published:
Human Rights Watch
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
47 p., This report examines the legal and practical questions surrounding the case of Jean-Claude Duvalier and concludes that Haiti has an obligation under international law to investigate and prosecute the grave violations of human rights under Duvalier's rule. This report also addresses Haiti's capacity to carry out the trial, the question of the statute of limitations, and Duvalier's personal involvement in alleged criminal acts. Tables, Figures.
Examines how post-earthquake conditions in Haiti have left women and girls in a heightened state of vulnerability as well as the ineffectiveness of the U.N. and government to uphold obligations under international law to include grassroots women's leadership in the planning and implementation sessions to address sexual violence in displacement camps.
To many in the West, the League of Nations was to establish political peace between nations. To the Cuban sugar-producing elite of the 1920s and 1930s, however, the League was an important socioeconomic institution used to augment many of Cuba's first modern state institutions. This article explores how and why Cuban delegates were the principals behind the 1937 International Sugar Agreement.