Human Rights Violations

Author : Stefanie Khoury,David Whyte
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2016-12-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317216063

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Corporate Human Rights Violations by Stefanie Khoury,David Whyte Pdf

This book develops an analysis of the historical, political and legal contexts behind current demands by NGOs and the United Nations Human Rights Council to hold corporations accountable for their human rights violations. Based on an analysis of the range of mechanisms of accountability that currently exist, it argues that that those demands are a response to the failure of neo-liberal policies that have dominated the practice of politics and law since the emergence of this debate in its current form in the 1970s. Offering a new approach to understanding how struggles for hegemony are refracted through a range of legal challenges to corporate human rights violations, the book offers a fresh perspective for understanding how those struggles are played out in the global sphere. In order to analyse the prospects for using human rights law to challenge the right of corporations to author human rights violations, the book explores the development of a range of political initiatives in the UN, the uses of tort law in domestic courts, and the uses of human rights law at the European Court of Human Rights and at the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. This book will be essential reading for all those interested in how international institutions and NGOs are both shaping and being shaped by global struggles against corporate power.

Author : Kent Roach
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 633 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2021-04-08
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781108417877

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Remedies for Human Rights Violations by Kent Roach Pdf

Justifies a two-track approach that includes individual and systemic remedies in both domestic and international human rights law.

Author : Steven C. Poe
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2019-06-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351143790

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Understanding Human Rights Violations by Steven C. Poe Pdf

Originally published in 2004. This excellent volume presents a systematic analysis of various human rights violations around the globe, focusing on security and subsistence rights. The book collects important contributions to the theoretical development of the human rights phenomenon, covering a wide range of human rights issues and research approaches. The research presented combines a variety of qualitative and quantitative approaches and brings together both theoretical and empirical work. It places particular emphasis on making the advanced statistical methods that are used to test the arguments accessible to a wider readership. Understanding Human Rights Violations will prove a useful tool for all in the fields of international human rights, peace studies, political violence and international law, and offers a valuable introduction into the literature on human rights violations.

Author : Chandra Lekha Sriram
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2004-08-12
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781135768201

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Confronting Past Human Rights Violations by Chandra Lekha Sriram Pdf

This book examines what makes accountability for previous violations more or less possible for transitional regimes to achieve. It closely examines the other vital goals of such regimes against which accountability is often balanced. The options available are not simply prosecution or pardon, as the most heated polemics of the debate over transitional justice suggest, but a range of options from complete amnesty through truth commissions and lustration or purification to prosecutions. The question, then, is not whether or not accountability can be achieved, but what degree of accountability can be achieved by a given country. The focus of the book is on the politics of transition: what makes accountability more or less feasible and what strategies are deployed by regimes to achieve greater accountability (or alternatively, greater reform). The result is a more nuanced understanding of the different conditions and possibilities that countries face, and the lesson that there is no one-size-fits-all prescription that can be handed to transitional regimes.

Author : Hugo Rojas
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2021-12-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030881702

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Past Human Rights Violations and the Question of Indifference: The Case of Chile by Hugo Rojas Pdf

This book contributes to the fields of memory and human rights. It offers a novel and interdisciplinary theory on social indifference, and in particular on the indifference of people to human rights violations committed against certain sectors of society in turbulent times. These theoretical frameworks are explored empirically with respect to the Chilean case. Through a blend of mixed methods, the book explains the causes, characteristics and social consequences of the current indifference of Chileans with respect to the human rights violations committed during the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet (1973-90). The different findings are an invitation to rethink new challenges of transitional justice processes in fragmented societies and to strengthen public policies on human rights.

Author : Jebagnanam Cyril Kanmony
Publisher : Mittal Publications
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Human rights
ISBN : 8183243479

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Human rights violation by Jebagnanam Cyril Kanmony Pdf

Study conducted at Kanyakumari and Tirunelveli districts of Tamil Nadu, India.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Civil rights
ISBN : OCLC:467193920

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The Universal Declaration of Human Rights by Anonim Pdf

Author : Ewa Bagińska
Publisher : Springer
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2015-10-20
Category : Law
ISBN : 9783319189505

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Damages for Violations of Human Rights by Ewa Bagińska Pdf

This volume analyses the legal grounds, premises and extent of pecuniary compensation for violations of human rights in national legal systems. The scope of comparison includes liability regimes in general and in detail, the correlation between pecuniary remedies available under international law and under domestic law, and special (alternative) compensation systems. All sources of human rights violations are embraced, including historical injustices and systematical and gross violations. The book is a collection of nineteen contributions written by public international law, international human rights and private law experts, covering fifteen European jurisdictions (including Central and Eastern Europe), the United States, Israel and EU law. The contributions, initially prepared for the 19th International Congress of Comparative law in Vienna (2014), present the latest developments in legislation, scholarship and case-law concerning domestic causes of action in cases of human rights abuses. The book concludes with a comparative report which assesses the developments in tort law and public liability law, the role of the constitutionalisation of the right to damages as well as the court practice related to the process of enforcement of human rights through monetary remedies. This country-by-country comparison allows to consider whether the value of protection of human rights as expressed in international treaties, ius cogens and in national constitutional laws justifies the conclusion that the interests at stake should enjoy protection under the existing civil liability rules, or that a new cause of action, or even a whole new set of rules, should be created in national systems.

Author : Nienke van der Have
Publisher : Springer
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2017-12-29
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789462652316

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The Prevention of Gross Human Rights Violations Under International Human Rights Law by Nienke van der Have Pdf

This book contains a systematic assessment of the content and scope of obligations to prevent gross human rights violations. There has been a great deal of attention for concepts aiming to prevent gross human rights violations, such as conflict prevention and the responsibility to protect. Yet despite this shift in attention towards prevention, it has remained unclear what legal obligations states have to prevent gross human rights violations under international human rights law. The focus in this book is on three specific types of injury prohibited under international human rights law: torture, arbitrary death and genocide. Further distinctions are made between four temporal phases (long-term prevention, short-term prevention, preventing continuation, preventing recurrence) and territorial and extraterritorial obligations. The structure of the book allows academics and practitioners to learn about obligations to prevent gross human rights violations in a general sense, as well as find targeted information on the content and scope of obligations in specific settings. Nienke van der Have recently completed her Ph.D. at the Amsterdam Center for International Law, which forms part of the University of Amsterdam’s Faculty of Law, and currently works as Senior legal specialist at the department of Constitutional Affairs and Legislation of the Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations of The Netherlands.

Author : Alette Smeulers,Fred Grünfeld
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2011-07-27
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789004215887

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International Crimes and Other Gross Human Rights Violations by Alette Smeulers,Fred Grünfeld Pdf

An interdisciplinary approach to international crimes as genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes and other gross human rights violations for students, scholars, professionals and practitioners to get an insight in the roles of perpetrators and bystanders.

Author : Thomas B. Jabine,Richard Pierre Claude
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2016-11-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781512802863

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Human Rights and Statistics by Thomas B. Jabine,Richard Pierre Claude Pdf

Effective human rights advocacy and research require the use of statistics, carefully collected and objectively analyzed and presented, using the best techniques available. Statistics that lack credibility are of little value. Those that can be defended against critics can be effective in throwing the light on violations and promoting the observance of human rights for all. The contributors to this book, including experts in political science, public health, law, forensic pathology, and statistics, illustrate good statistical practice in the field of human rights and show the importance of collaboration between statisticians and other professionals. The treatment is largely nonmathematical, and the examples provide broad coverage of all features of the collection and use of statistical data on human rights violations. For readers who would like to do their own analyses, an extensive guide to human rights data sources is included. This book is the first to describe and summarize important issues associated with the collection and uses of human rights statistics.

Author : Linos-Alexandros Sisilianos,Christiana Bourlogiannē-Vraila
Publisher : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2001-11-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9041116729

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The Prevention of Human Rights Violations by Linos-Alexandros Sisilianos,Christiana Bourlogiannē-Vraila Pdf

1. The UN Special Rapporteurs.

Author : Surya Deva
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780415668217

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Regulating Corporate Human Rights Violations by Surya Deva Pdf

The quest to establish an effective regulatory mechanism to ensure that corporations comply with human rights responsibilities has gained momentum in the last decade or so, however, despite these efforts, no robust regulatory mechanism is in sight to provide effective remedies to victims of corporate human rights abuses. Against this background this book provides a theoretical framework to overcome regulatory challenges experienced in holding multinational corporations (MNCs) accountable for violation of human rights.

Author : Bill Ong Hing
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2018-11-15
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781108472289

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American Presidents, Deportations, and Human Rights Violations by Bill Ong Hing Pdf

Discusses how mass detention and deportation of immigrants, has escalated even higher since the Obama and Trump administrations.

Author : Rosa Freedman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780190222543

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Failing to Protect by Rosa Freedman Pdf

Every year tens of millions of individuals suffer grave abuses of their human rights. These violations occur worldwide, in war-torn countries and in the wealthiest states. Despite many of the abuses being well-documented, little seems to be done to stop them from happening. The United Nations was established to safeguard world peace and security, development, and human rights yet it is undeniable that currently is it failing to protect the rights of a great many people from the victims of ethnic cleansing, to migrants, those displaced by war and women who suffer horrendous abuse. This book looks at the reasons for that failure. Using concrete examples intertwined with explanations of the law and politics of the UN, Rosa Freedman offers clear explanations of how and why the Organisation is unable, at best, or unwilling, at worst, to protect human rights. Written for a non-specialist audience, her book also seeks to explain why certain countries and political blocs manipulate and undermine the UN s human rights machinery. Failing to Protect demonstrates the urgent need for radical reform of the machinery of human rights protection at the international level.