International Human Rights Law Fall 2014 Supplementary Readings (Supp.) Professor Schnably Contents Human Rights Committee, General Comment 20: Article 7 (Forty-fourth session, 1992), Compilation of General Comments and General Recommendations Adopted by Human Rights Treaty Bodies, U.N. Doc. HRI/GEN/1/Rev.6 at 151 (2003). ..................................................... 1 Atul Gawande, Hellhole: The United States holds tens of thousands of inmates in long-term solitary confinement. Is this torture? THE NEW YORKER, March 30, 2009 .......................................... 4 Yash Ghai, Universal Rights and Cultural Pluralism: Universalism and Relativism: Human Rights as a Framework for Negotiating Interethnic Claims, 21 CARDOZO L. REV. 1095 (2000) ................................................................................................................................................... 16 Abdullahi Ahmen An-Na’im, Human Rights in the Muslim World: Socio-Political Conditions and Scriptural Imperatives, 3 HARV. HUM. Rts. J. 13 (1990) .............................................................. 23 Materials and Questions on Cultural Relativism ........................................................................................ 29 Geoffrey Cowley, Gender Limbo, Newsweek, May 19, 1997, at 64 .......................................................... 32 UNHCR, Guidance Note on Refugee Claims Relating to Female Genital Mutilation, May 2009 (excerpts) .............................................................................................................................................. 35 Mari-Jane Williams, Kim Kardashian pierced baby North’s ears. Why the furor?, Washington Post, June 19, 2014 ............................................................................................................................... 37 Amanda Marcotte, Parents Are Sending Their American Daughters Abroad for “Vacation Cutting,” Slate, June 11, 2014 .............................................................................................................. 38 Jurisdictional Requirements for Selected Bodies Hearing Individual Petitions ......................................... 39 Legal Analysis of CEDAW RDUs: Joint Position of the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights and the NOW Legal Defense Fund, September 26, 1994 ..................................................................... 40 Wendy Wright, CEDAW: A Global Tool That Would Harm Women, Concerned Women of America, 2/23/2007 .............................................................................................................................. 46 The “Baby Boy” Case, Case 2141, Resolution No. 23/81, 1980-81 Inter- Amer. Cm. H.R. 25, OEA/Ser. 6/v/II.54, doc. 9 rev. 1 (1981) .............................................................................................. 52 Brüggemann and Scheuten v. Federal Republic of Germany, 5 Eur. Comm’n H.R. Dec. & Rep. 130 (1976), 3 E.H.R.R. 244 (1981) ...................................................................................................... 56 Paton v. United Kingdom, 3 E.H.R.R. 408 (1981) (European Commission of Human Rights) ................ 59 Hypothetical UK Derogation of December 18, 2001 (for the Problem at CB 789-792) ............................ 64 Actual UK Derogation of December 18, 2001 (for the Problem at CB 789-792) ...................................... 65 The Paquete Habana, 175 U.S. 677 (1900) ................................................................................................ 67 Graham v. Florida, 130 S. Ct. 2011 (2010) ................................................................................................ 76 Human Rights Watch/ACLU, A Violent Education: Corporal Punishment of Children in US Public Schools (2008) .......................................................................................................................... 81 Human Rights Watch/ACLU, Impairing Education: Corporal Punishment of Students with Disabilities in US Public Schools (2009) ............................................................................................. 85 Sarah Carr, Why Are Black Students Facing Corporal Punishment in Public Schools? A growing controversy over use of the “paddle” to discipline children has a painful racial subtext. The Nation, April 28, 2014. ......................................................................................................................... 88 Daniel Hurst, Corporal punishment can be 'very effective', curriculum review chief says, The Guardian, 15 July 2014 ........................................................................................................................ 93 i Committee on the Rights of the Child, General Comment No. 8 (2006), CRC/C/GC/8* (2 March 2007) ..................................................................................................................................................... 95 Elizabeth M. Schneider, Caroline Bettinger-López, et al., Implementing the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights’ Domestic-Violence Ruling, Clearinghouse Review: Journal of Law & Poverty (July Aug. 2012, at 113) ......................................................................................... 99 Bond v. United States, 134 S.Ct. 2077 (2014) .......................................................................................... 104 Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum Co., 133 S.Ct. 1659 (2013) ................................................................. 115 In re South African Apartheid Litigation, 2014 WL 1569423 (2014) ...................................................... 123 LGBTI Uganda Fights Back ..................................................................................................................... 125 Sexual Minorities Uganda v. Lively, 960 F.Supp.2d 304 (2013) ............................................................. 127 Jeffrey Gettleman, Uganda Anti-Gay Law Struck Down by Court, N.Y. Times, Aug. 2, 2014 ............... 129 Samantha Power, Dying in Darfur: Can the Ethnic Cleansing in Sudan Be Stopped? The New Yorker, Aug. 30, 2004 ........................................................................................................................ 130 Mahmood Mamdani, Saviors and Survivors: Darfur, Politics, and the War on Terror (2009) ................ 140 Jon Lee Anderson, A History of Violence, New Yorker, July 23, 2012, at 49 ...........................142 2005 World Summit Outcome Document, G.A. Res. 60/1, ¶¶ 138-139, U.N. GAOR, 60th sess., U.N. doc. A/Res/60/1 (Oct. 24, 2006) ................................................................................................ 164 U.N. Security Council Resolution 1674, S/RES/1674 (2006) .................................................................. 167 Responsibility to Protect: An idea Whose Time Has Come—and Gone?, THE ECONOMIST, July 23, 2009 .............................................................................................................................................. 172 In Danger: Iraq’s Yazidis, The Economist, Aug. 5, 2014 ......................................................................... 175 Who wants to rescue the regime?, The Economist, Aug. 9, 2014 ............................................................ 175 Max Boot, R2P Is MIA for the Besieged Yezidis of Iraq, Comentary, Aug. 7, 2014 .............................. 177 Tom Andrews, Standing with Yazidis and Against Genocide, Huffington Post, Aug. 8, 2014 ............... 178 Seumas Milne, Another war in Iraq won’t fix the disaster of the last: The Yazidis need aid, but military intervention by states that destroyed Iraq will deepen the crisis now tearing it apart, The Guardian, Aug. 13, 2014 ............................................................................................................. 178 Katie Aezima and Loveday Morris, U.S. Considering Range of Options to Rescue Iraq’s Yazidis, Washington Post, Aug. 13, 2014 ........................................................................................................ 180 US credits strikes with allowing Iraqis to escape, AP, Aug. 13, 2014 ...................................................... 182 Agreement between the United Nations and the Royal Government of Cambodia concerning the prosecution under Cambodian law of crimes committed during the period of Democratic Kampuchea. Phnom Penh, 6 June 2003 ............................................................................................. 183 Cambodia: Amnesty International’s preliminary views and concerns about the draft agreement for the establishment of a Khmer Rouge special tribunal, ASA 23/003/2003, 21 March 2003 ............... 194 Seth Mydans, Cambodia Tribunal Dispute Runs Deeper, N.Y. Times, Feb. 7, 2009 .............................. 196 Seth Mydans, Trial Begins for Khmer Rouge Leader, N.Y. Times, Feb. 17, 2009 .................................. 198 Seth Mydans, Anger in Cambodia Follows Khmer Rouge Sentence, N.Y. Times, July 26, 2010 ............ 200 Seth Mydans, Conflicts Imperil Future Khmer Rouge Trials, NY Times, June 6, 2011 .......................... 202 Seth Mydans, Judge Quits Tribunal in Khmer Rouge Inquiry, N.Y. Times, Oct. 10, 2011 ..................... 204 Seth Mydans, U.N. Court in Cambodia Recommends Freeing Defendant Ill With Dementia, N.Y. Times, Nov. 17, 2011 ......................................................................................................................... 205 Douglas