human rights law
Localising human rights law : a case-study of civil society interpretation of rights in Scotland
... the rights to respect for private/family life, freedom from inhuman/degrading treatment, and the right to life by examining what they say about, and the kinds of circumstances that they link to, these particular ...
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On coming to terms: how European human rights law imagines the human condition
... Within the terms of European human rights law, the denial of recognition need not be deliberate in this regard. In Ms Konovalova’s case, for example, the lack of recognition derived primarily from ...
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Homosexual Rights and the Non-Western World: A Postcolonial Reading of Homosexual Rights in International Human Rights Law
... Westernising role of international human rights law, especially with regard to its protection and recognition of homosexual rights, which has given rise to so much [r] ...
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Human Rights and Environmental Wrongs: Achieving Environmental Justice through Human Rights Law
... of human rights law may be the availability of human rights tribunals, courts and committees, which could be utilised by individuals and communities who allege their human ...
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Human rights law as social control
... that human rights law can fulfil a social control function is alien to most contemporary debates about human ...discourse, human rights are usually discussed, either positively ...
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Appraising the Frontiers and Limits of the Inter American Human Rights System and Its Relevance to International Human Rights Law
... Human rights have been defined in a number of ...a human being and a member of humankind (Dowrick, 1979). Human rights are also those rights which appertain to individuals as ...
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LL.M. Program in International Human Rights Law
... international human rights law to get myself equipped with the best ...international human rights law and the application of foundational ...positive law by questioning ...
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Aggression and International Human Rights Law
... the law, success in an application raising this issue would seem ...fundamental human rights are not breached. The European Court case law dealing with non-international armed conflict very ...
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Stereotypes and human rights law
... of Human Rights) with a thematic focus on domestic violence ...other human rights ...international human rights law, in particular in the work of the CEDAW Committee and ...
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Human Rights Law and the State Duty to Protect
... 10. However painful the near-term may be, going forward elements of the business and human rights agenda should become more closely aligned with the world’s overall economic policy agenda than in recent ...
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Ethnic Conflict in Fiji and International Human Rights Law
... 2 Although Rabuka initially claimed he had acted to prevent racial violence and to maintain law and order, 3 both coups instead exacerbated the simmering ethnic confl[r] ...
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Does International Human Rights Law Make a Difference
... But in practice this unique combination of attributes-commonality of terms, near universality of formal acceptance, legitimacy of adoption, perceived reflection of inte[r] ...
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Should International Human Rights Law Trump US Domestic Law?
... The human rights community has fiercely criticized the United States' failure to make international human rights treaties a source of law in the domestic realm.' In this e[r] ...
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Direct Participation in Hostilities and the Interoperability of the Law of Armed Conflict and Human Rights Law
... The analysis has so far considered the requirements of HRsL in a “normal” con- text. The question arises of how the rules are modified, if at all, by the existence of a situation of emergency or armed conflict. All the ...
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The Growing Importance of Customary International Human Rights Law
... The original "game plan" of the Founding Fathers of the United Nations international human rights program was, first, to spell out in a non-binding Universal Dec[r] ...
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The state's right to stay in islam law study in the light of international human rights law
... It is clear that the protection of man is one of the significant issues in the international law. Moreover, the international community views the Islamic states as illiterate. However, before one thousand and four ...
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Filartiga v. Pena-Irala: Comments on Sources of Human Rights Law and Means of Redress for Violations of Human Rights
... The court, once it had indicated its obligation under the United States statute to apply international law in the case before it, found "that an act of torture [r] ...
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Exploring the Limits of International Human Rights Law
... As I discuss below, advocacy groups have recognized that importation of the language of international human rights into domestic legal systems-through direct litigation, domestic [r] ...
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(Transnational) Corporations and Human Rights: an exploration into the accomodation of capital in international human rights law.
... It3 was3 only3 several3 decades3 later3 that3 the3 OAS3 adopted3 its3 institutional3 human3 rights3framework.3The3ACHR3was3adopted3in319693and3came3into3force3in31978.3 ...
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International Law, Human Rights Beneficiaries, and South Africa: Some Thoughts on the Utility of International Human Rights Law
... While international criminal accountability for private organizations is not provided for in the Hague tribunals," civil liability and other forms of accountability for[r] ...
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