Volume 1 Contents

Articles
1. Confronting the Violence Committed by Armed Opposition Groups by Ravi Nair
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2. Maya Aboriginal Land and Resource Rights and the Conflict Over Logging in Southern by Belize S. James Anaya
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3. Crossing the Border: The Interdependence of Foreign Policy and Racial Justice in the United States by Natsu Taylor Saito
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4. Treaty, Custom and the Cross-fertilization of International Law by Phillipe Sands
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Notes
5. Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes?: Why and How UNHCR Governance of "Development" Refugee Camps Should be Subject to International Human Rights Law by Ralph Wilde
   
   Various human rights conventions impose specific, and often expensive responsibilities upon states that are hosting refugees. Many poorer nations, however, are evading these responsibilities--and thus the considerable burden of fulfilling their legally mandated duties--by shifting control over the refugee camps entirely to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). As a non-governmental entity that did not sign the applicable conventions, it is questionable as whether or not international refugee law should regulate the UNDP's activities. This article argues that it does.
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   New Developments
6. The U.N. Environment Programme: Thinking Globally, Retreating Locally by Matthew Heimer
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7. NGO Proposals for an Asian-Pacific Human Rights System by Ralph Wilde
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8. Understanding "Hostage-Diplomacy": The Release of Wei Jingsheng and Wang by Dan Hari Osofsky
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