International Human Rights Instruments. A Compilation of Treaties, Agreements and Declarations of a Special Interest to the United States. By Richard B. Lillich. [Buffalo, New York. William S. Hein. 1983. $50.]

1984 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 749-750
Author(s):  
Thomas M. Franck
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New York ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Special Interest ◽  
The United States ◽  
International Human Rights ◽  
International Human

scholarly journals Should Compensated Surrogacy Be Permitted or Prohibited?

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sital Kalantry
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New York ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
The United States ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
International Human Rights ◽  
State Laws ◽  
Same Sex Couples ◽  
The World ◽  
International Human

Surrogacy provides a way for infertile people, as well as same-sex couples and single individuals, to become parents. Surrogacy is permitted in most states in the United States. In New York, however, surrogacy contracts are void and unenforceable according to a 1992 law. The Child-Parent Security Act of 2017 (the CPSA) would repeal this prohibition, make surrogacy agreements enforceable, and permit surrogates to be compensated for the gestational care they provide. In this report, we review the landscape of state laws in the United States, laws around the world, moral concerns that led to the adoption of the current New York law, and international human rights considerations that are relevant to evaluating the CPSA. Based on this review, we support the CPSA and suggest some possible additional protections based on practices in other jurisdictions.

scholarly journals Party positions over international human rights treaties in the United States in the Post-Cold War

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 24-50
Author(s):  
Flávio Contrera ◽  
Matheus Lucas Hebling
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Cold War ◽  
Comparative Method ◽  
The United States ◽  
International Human Rights ◽  
Post Cold War ◽  
Party Positions ◽  
Human Rights Treaties ◽  
International Human

This article aimed to verify the occurrence of convergence and congruence in the positions that the Democratic and Republican parties express about human rights treaties in the Electoral, in the Executive, and the Legislative arenas, in the Post-Cold War (1992-2016). The use of the comparative method guided the study of six specific cases, analyzed using qualitative techniques. The results point to two trends. The first is that the possibility of convergence between the Democratic and Republican parties tends to diminish when their positions on human rights treaties are anchored by ideological perspectives, and the second is that a party’s position on a treaty tends to be congruent among political arenas. Moreover, the divergence of positions between the parties clarifies the liberal internationalist character of the Democratic positions and the conservative isolationist approach of the Republican positions.

scholarly journals George Floyd’s Murder

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 48-66
Author(s):  
Farnaz Raees Kazemi ◽  
Moosa Akefi Ghaziani
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Racial Discrimination ◽  
The United States ◽  
Historical Background ◽  
Human Rights Law ◽  
International Human Rights ◽  
Political Agitation ◽  
International Human ◽  
The Government

George Floyd’s murder by the police in Minneapolis provoked widespread political agitation across the country. It once again highlighted the problematic racial dimension of policing and eggregious violation of human rights commitments on the part of the government. In this article we explore how the human rights law and racism in the United States interact with each other? We employ qualitative research based on descriptive-analytical method and divide the article in four parts: a brief introduction, a historical background of racism, a conceptual comprehension of racial discrimination and a brief survey of the international human rights instruments against racism, and the onground situation of racial discrimination in the country. We conclude that the process of negotiation between human rights law and racism in the United States is far from settled yet.

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