Project Files Series, 1981-2006 and undated

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Contains files chronicling initiatives and projects of IHRLG/Global Rights, many of which are interrelated. Major projects include the Cambodian Defenders Project (and its closely related sibling project the Cambodian Court Training Project, housed together), various treaty ratification projects, and an initiative on "comfort women" and other forms of war-related sexual slavery. The Cambodian Defenders Project is a program to improve the the function of Cambodian courts through education and improved infrastructure. Among files in this series, it is unusual because it focuses exclusively on one country; while many projects are targeted in a single country, they often focus on an issue of concern in several national contexts. Treaties documented in the Treaty Ratification Projects grouping include the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (CERD), the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), and other treaties through the Clinton Administration. The largest grouping of files in this series relates to an initiative on "comfort women." It consists chiefly of drafts of a report issued to the UN Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women, which focused on the legal obligations of Japan as well as parties in conflicts in the former Yugoslavia and Africa to victims of sex crimes during wartime. Projects related to racial and gender-based discrimination in the United States and abroad and the legal status of people detained by Immigration and Naturalization Services (INS) after September 11, 2001 complete the series. A folder of various project proposals can be found at the end of the series; otherwise, series is organized alphabetically by project.

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