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This concept describes the accumulative effects of systematic failures by a State to prevent acts of violence, to provide truth, to remedy the harms suffered as a result of a serious human rights violation and to effectively investigate.
What is impunity?
The name of the Supreme Court Justice who wrote the opinion designating indigenous nations as "domestic dependent nations."
Who is Justice John Marshall?
This student referred to a letter sent by Andres Lopez Obrador to the King of Spain demanding an apology for the atrocities committed by Spain against the indigenous peoples in Mexico in her discussion of reparative justice.
Who is Marcela Galaz?
This document declares that treaties are the "Supreme Law of the Land."
What is the U.S. Constitution?
Name of grammy winner who featured the consequences of the privatization of energy for human rights in their music video.
Who is "Bad Bunny"?
What is a reservation?
This type of justice is concerned with making and implementing decisions according to fair processes that ensure "fair treatment."
What is "procedural justice"?
This student interviewed Ben Crump for a documentary and works for ABC News.
Who is Arabela Cabebe?
The name of the case submitted against the city of Detroit to enjoin the decision to disconnect poor households from water and sanitation.
What is Lyda, et al v. City of Detroit?
In 2023, this film about the prosecution of members of a military junta was nominated for an Oscar.
What is "Argentina, 1985"?
A legal system that automatically incorporates the protections of international treaties into domestic law.
What is a monist system?
Slavery and the slave trade is concerned this type of international crime.
What is "crimes against humanity"?
This student drew on article about the settler colonial and racist logics of the U.S. Forest Service assigned in herher tree identification class to expand on Mutua's critique of Western values.
Who is Mila Colfer?
Regarding race discrimination in the United States, this person appealed to the United Nations, arguing that "[n]o nation is so great that the world can afford to let it continue to be deliberately unjust, cruel and unfair toward its own citizens."
Who is W.E.B Du Bois?
The nobel prize winning human rights defender who attended the 2023 Oscar ceremony.
Who is Malala Yousafzai?
This international treaty includes the strongest protection of the right to self determination.
What is the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights?
This type of measure of reparations seeks to restore the victim to the state before the violation.
What is restitution?
This student is grappling with the doctrine of prior appropriation and the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Winters v. United States to understand the water rights of indigenous peoples in the United States.
Who is Brittany Postle?
This human rights defender wrote that human rights at its core is about the "struggles of ordinary people against abusive power."
Who is Salil Shetty?
This 2023 Oscar winner spent a year in a refugee camp with his family.
Who is Ke Huy Quan?
The European Court of Human Rights held in this case that “it would be incompatible with human dignity to deprive a person of his freedom forcefully without at least providing him with the chance to regain
that freedom one day.”
What is Vinter v. United Kingdom?
This U.S. state has the largest population of people serving life or virtual life sentences.
What is California?
This student wrote "[i]mpunity shows the true colors of a country."
Who is Ana Julieta Gonzalez Guerra?
This reproductive justice activist said, "[t]he legal system never catches up to movements, it follows them."
Who is Lorretta Ross?
Winner of first Grammy Award for Best Song for Song Change?
Who is "Shervin Hajipour"?
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