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XVth
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Havana,
October 2000
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Themes of XVth Congress
Havana, Cuba
October 2000
Congress Commissions Were Convened under Four Major Themes:
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THE RIGHT
TO PEACE AND INTERNATIONAL SECURITY; THE DEMOCRATIZATION OF INTERNATIONAL
ORGANIZATIONS
Topics on which
papers were presented included:
- Performance
and Compliance Under the Charter;
- The Role and
Limitations of the Security Council;
- The Use
of Nuclear, Chemical and Germ Warfare;
- Coercive
Economic Blockades as Political Weapons;
- The Last
Colonial Enclaves and Foreign Occupations of Military Bases;
- Implementing
the Decisions of the International Court of Justice
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THE ROLE
OF STATES AND THEIR LEGAL SYSTEMS IN CONTROLLING THE GLOBAL
ECONOMY: GLOBALIZATION
Topics on
which papers were presented included:
- Globalization
and the Impact of the Policies of International Financial
Organizations (IMF, World Bank, among others) on National
Economies;
- Structural
Debt;
- Multilateral
Trade Agreements and Their Impact on Workers Rights;
- The Protection
of Intellectual Property Including Biological and Information
Technology;
- The Unique
Status of Medical Products.
- Transnational
Global Investments
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DEMOCRACY
AND HUMAN RIGHTS THEORY AND PRACTICE
Topics on which
papers were presented included:
- Achieving
the Principals of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights;
- Racial and
Ethnic Discrimination;
- The Rights
of Women, Children, and Youth,
- The Status
of Immigrants and Refugees;
- Labor Rights;
- The Right
to a Healthy Environment and the Benefit of Natural Resources
and Civil and Criminal Responsibility for Their Destruction;
- Separation
of Powers,
- Non-voting
Electorates;
- Political
Corruption and Unethical Behavior in Democratic Societies.
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ACCESS
TO JUSTICE: THE INDEPENDENCE OF THE JUDICIARY AND THE PREPARATION
AND PRACTICE OF LAWYERS
Topics on
which papers were presented included among others:
- Independence
of the Judiciary,
- Transnational
Crimes Including Drug and Human Organ Trafficking,
- Money
Laundering,
- The Traffic
in Children for Adoption;
- The Prosecution
of White Collar and Corporate Crime,
- Race and
Class of Lawyers;
- Alternate
Modes of Conflict Resolution;
- Protecting
Due Process in Criminal Prosecutions;
- Social
Responsibility and Professional Ethics in the Legal Profession.
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