Smith, P.J. (2007). Climate change, weak states and the "war on terrorism" in South and Southeast Asia. Contemporary Southeast Asia: A Journal of International and Strategic Affairs 29(2): 264-285.
Two issues have been particularly prominent in the contemporary scholarly discussion about civil liberties in Canada: the ever-present debate about the legitimacy of judicial review, with its current dialogue theory inflection, and the wisdom and constitutionality of national security measures introduced or made more prominent in light of the current concern with terrorism.
This Article critiques U.S. counterterrorism measures that directly target refugees and asylum-seekers. The United States currently offers protection to individuals and families fleeing persecution through two programs: the overseas refugee resettlement program (available to refugees residing outside the United States) and the asylum system (available to those who apply for refugee protection on U.S. soil).
This article addresses two of the most pressing issues facing our society today - rights violations in anti-terrorism efforts and dysfunction in the immigration system - through a case study of the use of secret evidence in immigration proceedings. Cataloguing the government's repeated presentation of unreliable and inaccurate information in support of its efforts to deport suspected terrorists, the paper outlines the individual, societal, and global harms resulting from this misuse of secret evidence.
The securitization of immigration prioritizes the goal of protecting the body politic from infection by the menacing foreigner. The securitization of legal citizenship complements this process by facilitating the discursive and sometimes literal mutation of the citizen into the foreigner. Investing in mechanisms that enable the conversion or reversion of risky people to the legal status of foreigner simplifies the equation of state security with citizen security.
This Article critiques U.S. counterterrorism measures that directly target refugees and asylum-seekers. The United States currently offers protection to individuals and families fleeing persecution through two programs: the overseas refugee resettlement program (available to refugees residing outside the United States) and the asylum system (available to those who apply for refugee protection on U.S. soil).
Submission by Amnesty International to the Group of Specialists on Human Rights and the Fight against Terrorism established by the Steering Committee on Human Rights of the Council of Europe's Committee of Ministers -- This document describes some of the main features of recent anti-terrorism legislation and legislative proposals that have given rise to human rights concerns, in particular: the concept of ''terrorism'', which often has been vaguely and broadly defined, has been increasingly used in criminal and other areas of law; the establishment of indefinite administrative detention as
In 2008, 260 humanitarian aid workers were killed, kidnapped or seriously injured in violent attacks – the highest yearly toll on record. This HPG Policy Brief analyses 12 years worth of data on attacks on aid workers. The figures are examined by location, tactics, and the types of organisation and staff affected.
