Protecting the human rights of women

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The need for the international human rights community to address all forms of violence against women was addressed at the panel "Public Rights, Private Injustice: Internationally Sanctioned Violence Against Women" at the 1995 ABA Annual Meeting. The panelists noted that, while the UN's definition of violence against women includes religious and cultural practices such as dowry murder and female genital mutilation, some signatories of the UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women have continued to condone violence against women.

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The future of international human rights

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The assumption used to be that human rights law focused on curbing abuses committed by governments, but this law has evolved into placing a duty on governments to curb private crimes against women. International law against the death penalty has also developed. The death penalty has been made unlawful in a series of optional protocols to the major international conventions on civil and political rights. The argument that customary international law forbids the death penalty will become stronger as the number of countries that ratify these conventions increases.

Laws, regulations and rules

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Fair trial, free press: can they coexist?

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The question of how to balance the Sixth Amendment rights of criminal defendants to a fair trial and the First Amendment rights of the public and the press to cover a trial was discussed in a panel at the ABA 1995 Annual Meeting titled "The First Amendment and Pretrial Publicity Restraints." Panelists noted that prosecutors are granted much broader immunity in leaking information to the press than are defense attorneys. All parties involved felt that the press and the attorneys involved should act responsibly to protect the rights of defendants.

United States, Ethical aspects, Cameras in the courtroom, Cameras in court, Press, Free press and fair trial, Pretrial publicity, Right to fair and impartial trial

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