Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Human rights
ISBN : STANFORD:36105043500425
Interights Bulletin
Anonim
Interights Bulletin
Interights Bulletin Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle version is available to download in english. Read online anytime anywhere directly from your device. Click on the download button below to get a free pdf file of Interights Bulletin book. This book definitely worth reading, it is an incredibly well-written.
Military Training And Children In Armed Conflict
Jenny Kuper
Author : Jenny Kuper
Publisher : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789004136731
Military Training And Children In Armed Conflict by Jenny Kuper Pdf
During recent armed conflicts - such as those in Iraq, the former Yugoslavia, and Rwanda - public attention was repeatedly caught by images of children, both as civilians and as soldiers. Those conflicts, like so many others, were vivid reminders that where there is armed conflict there are also, almost always, children. Soldiers and officers fulfil many roles in relation to such children - sometimes as combatants, sometimes as humanitarian workers, sometimes as protectors, and/or sometimes as enemies and abusers. This book aims to address three main questions: what are the obligations of officers of national armed forces in relation to children, either civilians or combatants, whom they or those under their command may encounter while participating in situations of armed conflict? How realistic and achievable are these obligations? How can compliance with them be encouraged, monitored, and/or enforced? The book examines these questions in the context of military training. In doing so, it has another inextricably linked aim: to see if there are ways in which the training of officers can improve the protection of children in armed conflict situations, in accordance with international law and policy. It is intended for use particularly by those involved in training of national armed forces, including officers themselves, and members of governments, non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and inter-governmental organisations. It is hoped that it will also be of interest to lawyers, academics and others concerned with 'child rights' and related law and policy. It contains examples of actual training materials that can be modified for use in different countries and contexts.
Yearbook of the European Convention for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment/Annuaire de la convention européenne pour la prévention de la torture et des peines ou traitements inhumains ou dégradants
Council of Europe/Conseil de l'Europe
Author : Council of Europe/Conseil de l'Europe
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 2325 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2018-11-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789004338920
Yearbook of the European Convention for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment/Annuaire de la convention européenne pour la prévention de la torture et des peines ou traitements inhumains ou dégradants by Council of Europe/Conseil de l'Europe Pdf
The Yearbook of the European Convention for the Prevention of Torture offers an essential annual overview of developments in relation to the ECPT. Part One contains general information. Part Two is about the European Committee for the prevention of torture and inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment (CPT). Part Three is a general report on the activities of the European Committee for the prevention of torture and inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. Part Four contains reports on visits by the European Committee for the prevention of torture and inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment and responses of governments. Bilingual: English and French; 2-volume set.
Human Rights Manual and Sourcebook for Africa
Keir Starmer,Theodora A. Christou
Author : Keir Starmer,Theodora A. Christou
Publisher : BIICL
Page : 1486 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Civil rights
ISBN : 9780903067843
Human Rights Manual and Sourcebook for Africa by Keir Starmer,Theodora A. Christou Pdf
At a time when the issue of human rights in Africa is making many advances, Human Rights Sourcebook and Manual for Africa introduces easy-to-use jurisprudence. The first section covers key principles and human rights norms which are detailed in straightforward language. The second section is devoted to the death penalty, detailing the relevant provisions from both international and regional instruments and offering a comparative commentary as to how the principles and relevant rights relate to the death penalty. The third section summarizes key case law from international, regional and domestic African courts and tribunals. The case summaries detail the facts and decisions and include a headnote of relevant concepts for quick reference. The fourth section focuses on thirteen African countries, yet the reports are a useful comparative resource for all countries. From conducting the research and compiling the material for this final section, it is apparent that nothing like this has been attempted before in Africa. Much of the work emanates from primary research and investigation conducted by local research teams in the individual countries. Investigative research includes visiting prisons, physically counting the individuals on death row and interviewing the detainees to obtain their age and the length of time they had been on death row.
The Idea of Human Rights
Michael J. Perry
Author : Michael J. Perry
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Law
ISBN : 0195138287
The Idea of Human Rights by Michael J. Perry Pdf
Inspired by a 1988 trip to El Salvador, Michael J. Perry's new book is a personal and scholarly exploration of the idea of human rights. Perry is one of our nation's leading authorities on the relation of morality, including religious morality, to politics and law. He seeks, in this book, to disentangle the complex idea of human rights by way of four probing and interrelated essays.The book will appeal to students of many disciplines, including (but not limited to) law, philosophy, religion, and politics. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Human Rights Worldwide
Zehra F. Kabasakal Arat
Author : Zehra F. Kabasakal Arat
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2006-06-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781851097678
Human Rights Worldwide by Zehra F. Kabasakal Arat Pdf
This work offers an insightful guide to the global struggle for human rights, the problems and shortcomings of the international human rights regime, and the resources essential to human rights studies. From royal decrees in the ancient kingdoms of Persia and Babylon to the latest controversies over reform of the United Nations, establishing international human rights norms has been a recurrent, if sometimes elusive, objective in world affairs. Internationally and domestically, controversies over human rights continue to fuel endless debate in politics, legal discourse, and the media. International human rights norms and treaties have helped to put Balkan war criminals behind bars, but genocidal acts continue in other parts of the world. Can governments, equipped with coercive power, eliminate human rights abuses? Who will counterbalance the increasing power of transnational corporations? How effective are the NGOs? Do human rights become a luxury under threats to the national security?
English in International Deaf Communication
Cynthia J. Kellett Bidoli,Elana Ochse
Author : Cynthia J. Kellett Bidoli,Elana Ochse
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Education
ISBN : 303911610X
English in International Deaf Communication by Cynthia J. Kellett Bidoli,Elana Ochse Pdf
Outside English-speaking countries deaf people come into contact with the English language in specific domains; indirectly through interpretation and translation or directly by learning it as a foreign language. This volume explores a range of intercultural/interlinguistic encounters with English.
Strategic Human Rights Litigation
Helen Duffy
Author : Helen Duffy
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09-06
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781509921997
Strategic Human Rights Litigation by Helen Duffy Pdf
Strategic human rights litigation (SHRL) is a growing area of international practice yet one that remains relatively under-explored. Around the globe, advocates increasingly resort to national, regional and international courts and bodies 'strategically' to protect and advance human rights. This book provides a framework for understanding SHRL and its contribution to various forms of personal, legal, social, political and cultural change, as well as the many tensions and challenges it gives rise to. It suggests a reframing of how we view the impact of SHRL in its multiple dimensions, both positive and negative. Five detailed case studies, drawn predominantly from the author's own experience, explore litigation in a broad range of contexts (genocide in Guatemala; slavery in Niger; forced disappearance in Argentina; torture and detention in the 'war on terror'; and Palestinian land rights) to reveal the complexity of the role of SHRL in the real world. Ultimately, this book considers how impact analysis might influence the development of more effective litigation strategies in the future.
International Law Concerning Child Civilians in Armed Conflict
Jenny Kuper
Author : Jenny Kuper
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Law
ISBN : 0198264852
International Law Concerning Child Civilians in Armed Conflict by Jenny Kuper Pdf
Each year, many thousands of child civilians are killed, injured, or otherwise physically and psychologically harmed as a result of armed conflicts. There is a considerable body of international law which aims to minimise the harm inflicted on these children, and yet it is little known, orobserved. This book is the first major international legal text to focus exclusively on child civilians. It addresses three main questions: (1) what are the precise rules incorporated in the pertinent body of law, and what are its implementation mechanisms? (2) how effective is it (with reference torecent conflicts involving Iraq) in helping to achieve some protection for child civilians? and (3) can it be rendered more effective? The book concludes by proposing a number of strategies to strengthen the impact of the applicable law. As the first detailed analysis of the surprisingly large bodyof law relevant to the treatment of child civilians, this book is an important contribution to a topical and highly charged human rights issue.
State Agency and the Patenting of Life in International Law
Bita Amani
Author : Bita Amani
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Law
ISBN : 075467438X
State Agency and the Patenting of Life in International Law by Bita Amani Pdf
This important and timely volume considers competing international obligations in relation to the patenting of life, offering a pragmatic two-step approach to state agency to resolve apparent conflicts between the regulatory options afforded by economic globalization and the need to forge domestic laws that reflect community values.
The UN Human Rights Treaty System in the 21 Century
Anne Bayefsky
Author : Anne Bayefsky
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 1136 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2021-12-28
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789004502758
The UN Human Rights Treaty System in the 21 Century by Anne Bayefsky Pdf
Every United Nations member state is part of the human rights treaty system through the ratification of at least one of the six major human rights treaties, rendering universal participation a reality. For human rights victims, the treaty system is of central importance because international legal standards may offer benefits which political fora may not: the potential to generate remedies, attention, accessiblity. At the same time, the implementation mechanisms associated with the human rights treaties were designed at a time when the argument that international interest in human rights was an interference in domestic jurisdiction was at its peak. The challenge for the 21st Century is to move the theory of universality of international human rights standards towards effective implementation of human rights obligations. This book is a major contribution to the effort to focus attention on effective implementation of the human rights treaties. The contributors examine the major implementation shortfalls of the UN human rights treaty system, and offer concrete recommendations as to where future implementations efforts should be placed. The contributors are in a unique position to formulate and share their insights. They are drawn from among all of the constituencies involved in the human rights treaty system: the treaty bodies themselves, the NGO community, the UN secretariat, regional human rights regimes, UN agencies, UN human rights actors from the Human Rights Commission, the judiciary and academia. The book also includes, as a unique resource, all of the major documents concerning the UN human rights treaty system: the text of the treaties, the text of all amendments, statistics on individual communications to the treaty bodies, the text of all meetings of the chairpersons of the treaty bodies, reports and commentaries submitted to the UN Human Rights Commission, recent resolutions of the Human Rights Commission and the General Assembly on the human rights treaties, reform proposals by the International Law Association, regional human rights instruments. In the words of Philip Alston, the author of the UN report on enhancing the long-term effectiveness of the UN human rights treaty system, Professor Bayefsky's work `...has been more systematic and comprehensive, and has continued over a longer period of time, than any other comparable sholarly work on the subject.' (March 2000) In this volume Professor Bayefsky has collected the views of a range of authors immersed in the contribution and welfare of the UN human rights treaty system in the 21st century. It is necessary text for all those interested in the future of the international protection of human rights.
Freedom from poverty as a human right: law's duty to the poor
Bueren, Geraldine van
Author : Bueren, Geraldine van
Publisher : UNESCO
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2010-06-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789231041457
Freedom from poverty as a human right: law's duty to the poor by Bueren, Geraldine van Pdf
From Cape Town to Kabul
Penelope Andrews
Author : Penelope Andrews
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317132462
From Cape Town to Kabul by Penelope Andrews Pdf
Using her experience of living under apartheid and witnessing its downfall and the subsequent creation of new governments in South Africa, the author examines and compares gender inequality in societies undergoing political and economic transformation. By applying this process of legal transformation as a paradigm, the author applies this model to Afghanistan. These two societies serve as counterpoints through which the book engages, in a nuanced and novel way, with the many broader issues that flow from the attempts in newly democratic societies to give effect to the promise of gender equality. Developing the idea of ’conditional interdependence’, the book suggests a new approach based on the communitarian values which underpin newly democratic societies and would allow women’s rights to gain momentum and reap greater benefits. Broad in its thematic approach, the book generates challenging and complex questions about the achievement of gender equality. It will be of interest to academics interested in gender and human rights, international and comparative law.
Media Law and Policy in Nigeria
Malu, Linus Nnabuike
Author : Malu, Linus Nnabuike
Publisher : Malthouse Press
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-30
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789785193268
Media Law and Policy in Nigeria by Malu, Linus Nnabuike Pdf
This study of the state of media law in Nigeria contains analyses of the interplay of law, politics, the economy and other social factors on the state of freedom of expression. Juxtaposed are the regime of media law and regulations, judicial interpretation of these laws, the existing environment for the realisation of freedom of expression and the associated general political, social and economic environment. Critical attention is given to the various enactments regulating freedom of expression and the provisions on freedom of expression in the 1963, 1979 and 1999 Constitutions of Nigeria. How national media laws compare with international treaties and how regulators influence media contents, are also examined. The book is addressed to a wide audience: mass communication and law students, lecturers and teachers in tertiary institutions offering relevant courses, legal practitioners, journalists and those working in the field of mass communication, human rights and political activists, politicians and party bureaucracies, policy makers, researchers and experts in think tanks.
Litigating the Right to Health in Africa
Ebenezer Durojaye
Author : Ebenezer Durojaye
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-09
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781317104261
Litigating the Right to Health in Africa by Ebenezer Durojaye Pdf
Health rights litigation is still an emerging phenomenon in Africa, despite the constitutions of many African countries having provisions to advance the right to health. Litigation can provide a powerful tool not only to hold governments accountable for failure to realise the right to health, but also to empower the people to seek redress for the violation of this essential right. With contributions from activists and scholars across Africa, the collection includes a diverse range of case studies throughout the region, demonstrating that even in jurisdictions where the right to health has not been explicitly guaranteed, attempts have been made to litigate on this right. The collection focusses on understanding the legal framework for the recognition of the right to health, the challenges people encounter in litigating health rights issues and prospects of litigating future health rights cases in Africa. The book also takes a comparative approach to litigating the right to health before regional human rights bodies. This book will be valuable reading to scholars, researchers, policymakers, activists and students interested in the right to health.
