Economic sanctions and human rights: an analysis of competing enforcement strategies in Latin America

This article addresses the consequences of economic sanctions for the protection of human rights in Latin America. The literature on sanctions and compliance informs three hypotheses, which investigate the relationship between sanctions and the level of rights protection in two groups of countries: those that were targeted by sanctions and those that were not. Using data from the Political Terror Scale (PTS) and from Freedom House, I find empirical evidence that sanctions do improve the level of protection in countries that were not targeted. This finding can be explained by the deterrent effect attributed to sanctions by the compliance literature, broadly interpreted. The presence of economic sanctions in a given year increases the probability of observing better human rights practices by almost 50%. These results hold for the 12 Latin American countries that were not subject to economic sanctions for the period 1976-2004.

Biology Expansively Understood: [Review of] Alexandre Lefebvre's Human Rights as a Way of Life. On Bergson's Political Philosophy, (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2013)

Human Rights as a Way of Life is about the political dimension of Henri Bergson's work, focusing mainly on The Two Sources of Morality and Religion, the last original book by the French philosopher, published in 1932.

Human rights education and advancing the mission of human rights NGOs : an analysis based on case studies of amnesty International's efforts in ten countries

Magdeburg, Univ., Fak. für Humanwiss., Diss., 2012

Between pluralism and majoritarianism: the European Court of Human Rights on religious symbols and education

How is it possible to square the development of a consistent Europeanapproach to religious diversity with the recognition of the sometimes-conflictiveplurality of state-religion models? The Court´s support of the liberalprinciples of separation and neutrality have either been deplored by Christianconservatives as the result of European Christophobia, or celebratedby secularists as contributing to the formation of a Europe free of religion.In contrast, the present chapter argues for a differentiated approach toEuropean jurisprudence, outlining how the Court has been oscillating betweenan appealing liberal-pluralist perspective or framework, and a questionablemajoritarian one. Both perspectives are illustrated by focusing onrepresentative decisions in the area of religious education and symbols.

Audit report on the Iowa Department of Human Rights for the year ended June 30, 2006

Audit report on the Iowa Department of Human Rights for the year ended June 30, 2006

Report on the Iowa Department of Human Rights for the year ended June 30, 2007

Report on the Iowa Department of Human Rights for the year ended June 30, 2007

Department of Human Rights – Division on the Status of African Americans Performance Plan, FY 2009

Agency Performance Plan, Department of Human Rights – Division on the Status of African Americans

Report on the Iowa Department of Human Rights for the year ended June 30, 2008

Report on the Iowa Department of Human Rights for the year ended June 30, 2008

Notice on Civil Rights Obligations Applicable to the Distribution of Funds under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009

Federal agencies will shortly begin distributing funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Recovery Act). They must do so in accordance with all nondiscrimination and equal opportunity statutes, regulations, and Executive Orders that apply to the distribution of funds under the Recovery Act. Agencies that grant funds also must ensure that their recipients and sub recipients comply with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (prohibiting race, color, and national origin discrimination including language access for limited English proficient persons), Section 504 of the rehabilitation Act of 1973 (prohibiting disability discrimination), Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 (prohibiting sex discrimination in education and training programs), the Age Discrimination Act of 1975 (prohibiting age discrimination in the provision of services), and a variety of program-specific statutes with nondiscrimination requirements.

Report on the Iowa Department of Human Rights for the year ended June 30, 2009

Report on the Iowa Department of Human Rights for the year ended June 30, 2009

Report on the Iowa Department of Human Rights for the year ended June 30, 2010

Report on the Iowa Department of Human Rights for the year ended June 30, 2010

Report on the Iowa Department of Human Rights for the year ended June 30, 2011

Report on the Iowa Department of Human Rights for the year ended June 30, 2011

Report on the Iowa Department of Human Rights for the year ended June 30, 2012

Report on the Iowa Department of Human Rights for the year ended June 30, 2012

Report on the Iowa Department of Human Rights for the year ended June 30, 2013

Report on the Iowa Department of Human Rights for the year ended June 30, 2013