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Disability in a Human Rights Context Open
The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) is a modern human rights treaty with innovative components. It impacts on disability studies as well as human rights law. Two innovations are scrutinized in this article: the…
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The Populist Challenge to Human Rights Open
The nationalistic, xenophobic, misogynistic, and explicitly anti-human rights agenda of many populist political leaders requires human rights proponents to rethink many longstanding assumptions. There is a need to re-evaluate strategies an…
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The Making of International Human Rights: The 1960s, Decolonization, and the Reconstruction of Global Values Open
"This book fundamentally reinterprets the history of international human rights in the post-1945 era by documenting how pivotal the Global South was for their breakthrough. In stark contrast to other contemporary human rights historians wh…
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Rights in the digital age Open
As our online and offline lives become increasingly interwoven, policy makers have to consider how to protect individual interests and rights. This paper considers the impact of digital transformation on internationally recognised human ri…
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Communication rights: Fundamental human rights for all Open
The right to communicate includes the right to "freedom of opinion and expression" and rights and freedoms "without distinction of … language". The 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights is a time to celebrate and re…
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Evidence for Hope: Making Human Rights Work in the 21st Century Open
In Evidence for Hope: Making Human Rights Work in the 21st Century, Kathryn Sikkink delivers a timely defense of the promise and progress of human rights movements, ideas, and institutions. Amid a seemingly ever-growing body of scholarship…
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The Child in International Refugee Law Open
Children are the victims of some of the most devastating examples of state-sanctioned and private human rights abuse. In increasing numbers, they are attempting to find international protection, and are forced to navigate complex administr…
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Disability Human Rights Open
[Excerpt] Responding to the absence of an international treaty expressly protecting people with disabilities, the United Nations General Assembly will soon adopt a disability-based human rights convention. This Article examines the theoret…
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The Banjul Charter and the African Cultural Fingerprint: An Evaluation of the Language of Duties Open
This article questions the universality of the human rights corpus and argues that a human rights doctrine that is legitimate across cultures and traditions is not possible without the participation of the wider globe. Its purpose is to im…
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Guide on Article 18 of the European Convention on Human Rights Open
This Guide is part of the series of Case-Law Guides published by the European Court of Human Rights to inform legal practitioners about the fundamental judgments delivered by the Strasbourg Court. This particular Guide analyses and sums up…
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Human Rights and Social Justice: Social Action and Service for the Helping and Health Professions Open
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International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Open
Economic and social rights are found as part and parcel of many international instruments, universal and regional. Among the universal instruments adopted by the United Nations are the following: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights.T…
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International Human Rights and the Mistreatment of Women During Childbirth. Open
International human rights bodies have played a critical role in codifying, setting standards, and monitoring human rights violations in the context of sexual and reproductive health and rights. In recent years, these institutions have dev…
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Corruption as a Violation of International Human Rights Open
States perceived to be highly corrupt are at the same time those with a poor human rights record. International institutions have therefore assumed a negative feedback loop between both social harms. They deplore that corruption undermines…
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Frontier Cities: The Rise of Local Authorities as an Opportunity for International Human Rights Law Open
The growing influence and self-confidence of local authorities count among the most interesting recent phenomena in global governance. While not entirely oblivious, international law as a field has struggled to get ahead of this dynamic, f…
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Open Dialogue as a Human Rights-Aligned Approach Open
Throughout the last 20 years, the human rights perspective has increasingly developed into a paradigm against which to appraise and evaluate mental health care. This article investigates to what extent the Finnish open dialogue (OD) approa…
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Karel Vasak’s Generations of Rights and the Contemporary Human Rights Discourse Open
In the late 1970s, when Karel Vasak offered his concept of the three generations of rights, it was inclusive enough to embrace the whole spectrum of existing human rights. Forty years later, this paper explores the nature of contemporary h…
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Citizens and Condemnation: Strategic Uses of International Human Rights Pressure in Authoritarian States Open
Governments with strict control over the information that their citizens hear from foreign sources are regular targets of human rights pressure, but we know little about how this information matters in the domestic realm. I argue that auth…
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Interpreting the International Right to Health in a Human Rights-Based Approach to Health. Open
This article tracks the shifting place of the international right to health, and human rights-based approaches to health, in the scholarly literature and United Nations (UN). From 1993 to 1994, the focus began to move from the right to hea…
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Constitutional Law, Ecosystems, and Indigenous Peoples in Colombia: Biocultural Rights and Legal Subjects Open
The recognition of rivers and related ecosystems as legal persons or subjects is an emerging mechanism in transnational practice available to governments in seeking more effective and collaborative natural resource management, sometimes at…
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The Concept of Essence of Fundamental Rights in the EU Legal Order: Peeling the Onion to its Core Open
Essence of fundamental rights – Article 52(1) of the Charter – Multi-level protection of fundamental rights in Europe – Sources of essence – European Court of Justice case law on ‘very substance’ of fundamental rights – Constitutional trad…
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Frontex and the convergence of humanitarianism, human rights and security Open
While there has been growing scholarly interest in the convergence of humanitarianism and security in contemporary EUropean border governance, much of the existing literature has neglected the role of human rights in this process. Drawing …
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Transnationalizing Rights: International Human Rights Law in Cross-Border Contexts Open
International human rights law (IHRL) is still largely state-centred. This is an obstacle when it comes to making cross-border problems such as transboundary environmental harm and transnational surveillance amenable to human rights claims…
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Promoting Compliance with Human Rights: The Performance of the United Nations’ Universal Periodic Review and Treaty Bodies Open
What mechanisms facilitate state compliance with human rights? This article proposes and applies a model to assess the extent to which two United Nations human rights mechanisms—the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) and the state reporting p…
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The role of human rights in implementing socially responsible seafood Open
Sustainability standards for seafood mainly address environmental performance criteria and are less concerned with the welfare of fisheries workers who produce the seafood. Yet human rights violations such as slavery and human trafficking …
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For the Love of Humanity: The World Tribunal on Iraq Open
On February 15, 2003, millions of people around the world demonstrated against the war that the United States, the United Kingdom, and their allies were planning to wage in Iraq. Despite this being the largest protest in the history of hum…
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International surrogacy before the European Court of Human Rights Open
Over the past 15 years, international surrogacy has grown from a niche practice catering only to a few adventurous couples, to a convenient response to infertility for those who would otherwise be hindered by restrictive national regimes. …
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Human Rights: Moral or Political? Open
This volume explores philosophical questions raised by the dual status of human rights as moral rights, on the one hand, and legally, politically, and historically practised rights, on the other. Its topics include: the relevance of the hi…
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The Role of Law and Legal Knowledge for a Transformative Human Rights Education: Addressing Violations of Children’s Rights in Formal Education Open
\nHuman Rights Education (HRE) emphasises the significance of children learning about, through and for human rights through their lived experiences. Such experiential learning, however, is often limited to instances of enjoyment of rights …
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An Evolving Revolution: Evaluating Australia's Compliance with the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in Mental Health Law Open
In mid-2016 all but one of Australia’s eight states and territories have undertaken substantial reviews of their mental health legislation. Each jurisdiction acknowledged the impact of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons…