USA Law

Tag: Human rights

  • Sex Trafficking

    Sex Trafficking in the United States The term `commercial sex act’ means any sex act on account of which anything of value is given to or received by any person. (Victims of Trafficking and Violence Protection Act, 2000). Trafficking in Human Beings for Sexual Exploitation Trafficking of […]

  • Human Rights

    Human Rights in United States Convention to Suppress the Slave Trade and Slavery (25 Sep 1926); and Protocol (7 Dec 1953) Convention Concerning Forced Labor (28 Jun 1930) Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948). WWW version via The United Nations via HRWEB Convention Concerning […]

  • Fugitive Slave Law Of 1793

    Fugitive Slave Law of 1793 in the United States Fugitive Slave Laws The Constitution and the Law of 1793 Introduction to Fugitive Slave Law of 1793 Aware that the northern states might become havens of refuge for escaped slaves, South Carolina’s delegates at the Constitutional Convention […]

  • Fugitive Slave Law Of 1850

    Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 in the United States Fugitive Slave Laws The Law of 1850 Introduction to Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 In an attempt to lay the issue to rest, Congress enacted a law in 1850 that created commissioners under federal court appointment to adjudicate fugitive cases. They […]

  • Fugitive Slave Laws

    Fugitive Slave Laws in the United States Introduction to Fugitive Slave Laws Fugitive Slave Laws, acts passed by the United States Congress in 1793 and 1850, intended to facilitate the recapture and extradition of runaway slaves and to commit the federal government to the legitimacy of holding […]

  • Four Freedoms

    Four Freedoms in United States President Franklin Roosevelt’s Annual Message (Four Freedoms) to Congress (1941) This speech delivered by President Franklin Roosevelt on January 6, 1941, became known as his Four Freedoms Speech, due to a short closing portion describing the President’s vision […]

  • Resistance To Fugitive Slave Laws

    Resistance to Fugitive Slave Laws in the United States Fugitive Slave Laws Northern Resistance to the Laws Introduction to Resistance to Fugitive Slave Laws Owing to northern resentments, the acts of 1793 and 1850 faced legal challenges, primarily in the form of jurisdictional disputes over […]

  • Asylums

    Asylums in the United States Resources See Also Political Asylum Refugees Asylum Asylum Law Refugee Crisis Refugee Action Refugee Definition Political Asylum Definition Right of Asylum Insane Asylum Equality Legislation Human Rights Refugee Agency […]

  • Alien Tort Statute

    Alien Tort Statute in the United States Corporate Liability under the Alien Tort Statute: Kiobel v Royal Dutch Petroleum By Lawrence Hurley, based in Washington, D.C. He is a legal reporter for Greenwire and the former U.S. Supreme Court correspondent for the Los Angeles Daily Journal. […]

  • Libraries: Presidential Secrecy and the Law

    Libraries: Presidential Secrecy and the Law in the United States Robert M. Pallitto and William G. Weaver, Presidential Secrecy and the Law (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007) demonstrates that there is a long history predating what “W,” Cheney, Ashcroft, Gonzales, and Rove […]

  • Privacy law: privacy in peril

    Privacy law: privacy in peril in the United States James B. Rule, Privacy in Peril (New York: Oxford University Press, 2007) provides a good explanation why privacy would be a challenge for archivists. Examining the implications of technology, the role of government, and the activities of […]

  • International law and refugee conventions: States parties

    International law and refugee conventions: States parties in the United States States Parties to the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees and the 1967 Protocol Date of entry into force: 22 April 1954 (Convention); 4 October 1967 (Protocol). Total Number of States Parties to […]

  • International law: the refugee

    International law: the refugee in the United States See International law and refugee conventions: States parties 1. International Instruments Basic instruments 1946 Constitution of the International Refugee Organization – Extracts 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights – Extracts […]

  • International criminal law: Terrorism and Piracy

    International criminal law: Terrorism and Piracy in the United States 1. Major Treaties and Documents United Nations, International Convention for the Suppression of Terrorist Bombings, U.N. Doc. A/52/653 (25 November 1997; not in force yet) Canada’s Department of International […]

  • International criminal law: Organized Crime and Narcotics

    International criminal law:Organized Crime and Narcotics in the United States 1. Major Treaties and Documents United Nations Convention Against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances, 1988. United Nations Draft Convention against Transnational Organized […]