Posts Tagged ‘international law’
Why German homeschoolers get asylum and torture survivors don’t
I don’t know, actually. Maybe Uwe Romeike got lucky? Maybe asylum is starting to change? Maybe judges like evangelicals? Or white people better than black people? Or maybe we just really, <em>really</em> hate the European Court of Human Rights? In late January, A US immigration judge in Memphis, Tenn., recently granted asylum to a German [...]
A step, or a leap, or maybe nothing at all, for African women
About a week ago, the Christian Science Monitor ran an article I wrote from Sierra Leone on a new law protecting women in war zones. The law–less a law than an international precedent which may, or may not, become influential–categorizes the crime of forced marriage as a crime against humanity, for the first time ever. [...]
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