(Dis)assembling rights of women workers along the global assembly line: human rights and the garment industry

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The transnational nature of the garment industry in the 1990s requires flexible and innovative strategies to protect workers' human rights. The traditional separate global-local approach is an outdated paradigm. Extraterritorially-applied US labor laws, public international law, and US trade laws, as well as NAFTA, GATT, and World Trade Organization provisions can be used to protect these workers. Union and corporate codes of conduct are also useful. Organized workers, activists, and consumers can bring an end to the abuses of global assembly line sweatshops.

Human rights, Sweatshops, Civil rights, Garment workers, international

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Narrative strategy and death penalty advocacy

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Death penalty lawyers use narrative to illustrate points and tell stories about their clients, organize facts, and connect clients to the broader political issue of capital punishment. These narratives may used in the hope that spreading the truth about capital punishment will lead to its abolition and total rejection by an informed public. Seen in that light, limits on death penalty appeals may be a way of silencing inmates so as to prevent the public recitation of their narratives and the education of the public.

Narration (Rhetoric), Narration

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Mitigation, mercy and delay: the moral politics of death penalty abolitionists

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Capital punishment abolitionists use mitigation and post-conviction delays in their fight. The concept of effective assistance of counsel has become a major part of the ethical canon and jurisprudence of these advocates. The abolitionists' roles as moral agents, their role in fostering an ethical community vision, and the moral politics driving their actions are discussed.

Right to counsel

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