Results for “Texas Civil Rights Project”

Sharansky and I were on a panel together discussing human rights. When it was over we got onto the same elevator. Remarkably

instead of being formally charged with a crime. I was in Israel at the time writing a long article on the practice of administrative detention (or as Americans call it “preventive detention”). I was critical of the practice though I understood why some Israelis believed it was...

it will have to make a choice: either to perpetuate its double standard on human rights

[check year] he asked me to help him in an informal capacity as an advisor on human rights and matters of international law.

neutral standard of human rights? Have human rights now become the permanent weapon of choice for those who practice human wrongs? For shame. For shame.

me or your lying eyes?” That’s not Chico Marx. It’s Human Rights Watch. Their lying eyes belonged to the pro-Hezbollah witnesses its investigators chose to interview—and claimed to believe. But their mendacious pens belonged to Kenneth Roth

the deputy director of Human Rights Watch

nor from the modern victims’ rights movement

and for more serious offenses may take a formal role as accessory prosecutors with rights to participate in proceedings

many victims have difficulty litigating the scope of their rights. ©

victims have been able to secure counsel to argue that they have rights in the criminal justice process during

the court concurred with the district court that CVRA rights

the District Court for the Eastern District of New York agreed that the rights

the Task Force proposed amending the U.S. Constitution to protect victims’ rights. !*

crime victims' rights advocates sought to achieve the Task