Results for “New York Civil Rights Act”

including standards for victim assistance and procedural rights to be informed about and participate in criminal proceedings

and reasoning about fairness and rights are needed

but should comprehensively protect crime victims’ rights by changes in court rules. If Congress

one student leader refused to acknowledge that Mr. Oren had First Amendment rights of his own by interrupting him and shouting

against the fair trial rights of criminal defendants under the Sixth Amendment. I have generally been on the side of the First Amendment

under mounting pressure from the women’s rights movement

Rene Casin and Albert Schweitzer. Our great hope was the United Nations with its Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Our mantra was FDR’s “Four Freedoms:” freedom of speech and expression; freedom of worship; freedom from want; freedom from fear.

my involvement in the human rights movement broadened

I began to explore the meaning of the term “human rights

I didn’t focus on Jewish rights or on Israel. There were bigger and more serious problems facing America

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.