... mail@hartpub.co.uk Website: http://www.hartpub.co.uk British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Data Available ISBN-13: 978-1-84113-576-2 (hardback) ISBN-10: 1-84113-576-3 (hardback) Typeset by ... strengthens the law concerning human rights: Moreover, apart from the legal attribute of binding obligations which can now be said to be associated with human rights, the International Court of Justice ... General Conclusion 353 Bibliography of Books and Articles 371 Bibliography of Works by Judges of the Court 379 Bibliographical Annexes 385 385 389 390 392 451 Index Judgments of the International Court...
... sentences 16 b Use of vocabulary 17 b1 Archaic words and phrases 17 b2 Technical words 17 b3 Borrowed words 17 c Thematization 17 d Speech acts 3.3.3 11 3.3.1.1 The Title and Preamble of the Declaration ... THE INTERNATIONAL DECLARATION ON HUMANRIGHTS 3.1 Definition of an International Declaration 10 3.2 Purposes and typical legal characteristics of the International 10 Declaration on HumanRights ... 27 a4 Length of sentences 27 a5 Kinds of sentences 28 b Use of vocabulary 28 b1 Archaic words and phrases 29 b2 Technical words 29 b3 Borrowed words 29 v c Thematisation d Speech acts 30 The Ending...
... verb's action become the subject of the sentence Sentences that use passive voice include a form of the verb 'be' and the past participle of the main verb They follow the Receiver - Verb - by ... linguistic features used in International Declarations and International Conventions on HumanRights - Finding distinctions between these two types of basic documents on HumanRights in terms of discourse ... Preambles only It is certainly very-very difficult for readers to understand such long sentences Each Preamble is structuralized as follows: Subject is followed by subordinate clauses, which are broken...
... effective remedy by the competent national tribunals for acts violating the fundamental rights granted him by the constitution or by law Article No one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest, ... shall be subject only to such restrictions as are prescribed by law and which are necessary to protect the national security, public order (ordre public), public health or morals or the rights ... Child adopted by the General Assembly on 20 November 1959 and recognized in the VIII Universal Declaration of Human Rights, in the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (in particular...
... Municipal Law HumanRightsObligationsOwedbyInternationalOrganisations Sources of Legal Obligation – HumanRights under International Law Treaties HumanRights Treaties HumanRightsObligations ... other essentials) to a neighbouring State30 appears to now be qualified byhumanrightsobligations under general international law; d Humanrightsobligations under general international law apply ... October 1970 The States that voted for the resolution were: Algeria, Angola, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bahamas, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belarus, Belize, Benin, Bhutan,...
... other organisations have moral obligations arising from human rights, they are mediated by law and may be met by a moral commitment to obey laws Indeed, some international lawyers regard humanrights ... DIMENSIONS OF HUMANRIGHTS 13 Other factors that raise doubts about the applicability of humanrights to the moral responsibilities of organisations derive from the capture of humanrightsby legal ... demonstrate how humanrightsobligations transcend and differ from the more narrowly construed legal responsibilities established byhumanrights laws Indications are given as to how these moral obligations...
... core internationalhumanrights treaty becomes an additional tool for strengthening a human rights- based response to HIV/AIDS, both by advancing the rights of people whose pre-existing disability ... UN humanrights system can be used to protect and promote the humanrights of PLHIV and people with disabilities, including the rights recognized and protected by the Disability Convention International ... affected by HIV/AIDS The Commission on HumanRights has confirmed that discrimination on the basis of AIDS or HIV status, actual or presumed, is prohibited by existing internationalhuman rights...
... of humanrightsHumanrights as an article of faith According to a standard definition, humanrights are those rights one has by virtue of being human. 1 This definition suggests that humanrights ... of Cambridge University Press First published in print format 2006 eBook (EBL) ISBN-13 978-0-511-34870-9 ISBN-10 0-511-34870-3 eBook (EBL) ISBN-13 ISBN-10 paperback 978-0-521-68307-4 paperback ... or outside liberal parameters To simplify, liberal Introduction feminists believe that the problem of the exclusion of a women’s agenda byhumanrights should be, and can be, solved by including...
... compared with the natural rights sought to be guaranteed by the UN under the banner of liberal free-trade democracy and humanrights As observed by Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy, ‘ [b] efore the Papal Revolution, ... in offshore humanrights abuses, and the possibility of economic sanctions as a means of international law enforcement measures is arguably impeded by GATT obligations. 148 In the absence of GATT ... reliant in large measure on nonstate organisations Enforcement and policy formulation by states and internationalorganisations have been prompted by non-state lobbying, forcing states to justify...
... hearing within a reasonable time by an independent and impartial tribunal established by law Judgment shall be 279 280 Appendices pronounced publicly but the press and public may be excluded from all ... the text: Karaduman, declared inadmissible by the Commission, and Dahlab, declared inadmissible by the Court by an undisclosed majority 284 Appendices Table Voting pattern of judges ... as unattainable as that offered by any other political myth’ though we tend not to see this by mistakenly thinking of rights as ‘concrete, immediate, and available’: Wendy Brown, Rights and identity...
... or outside liberal parameters To simplify, liberal Introduction feminists believe that the problem of the exclusion of a women’s agenda byhumanrights should be, and can be, solved by including ... They believe that humanrights have no essential immanence but exist only because they are talked about For them, humanrights law is neither good nor bad as such; it must be judged, each time, by ... ”: HumanRights and the Politics of Fatalism’ 28 For example Brown seems interested neither in a liberal nor a humanrights perspective; Bentham was a liberal but did not believe in human rights...
... different things (a b c; c d e; d e f; etc.) by 235 236 Who Believes in Human Rights? different people, these different combinations tend not be used concomitantly by the same people By contrast, people ... cannot have humanrights This, of course, is in direct opposition to the standard definition of humanrights as those rights which every human being has Can humanrights law embody human rights? ... institutions are really about humanrights Could the European Court of HumanRights be a misnomer – not really about human rights? Haarscher’s analysis of the various dimensions of humanrights alerts us...
... prompted by the increased availability of humanrights information, such as a country’s labour rights or a company’s humanrights policies, and allowed ASN Bank to develop and refine better humanrights ... in Human Rights: ASN Bank’s Approach to Socially Responsible Banking by Lauren Kurtz 46 Processes and Procedures From Sustainability to Human Rights: A Case Study on Endesa/Endesa Brasil by ... Chemical by Sabina Appelt 80 Table of humanrights addressed 86 Table of humanrights management practices discussed 87 Table of humanrights standards, tools and initiatives mentioned (beyond...
... Melbourne, Madrid, Cape Town, Singapore, São Paulo, Delhi, Dubai, Tokyo Cambridge University Press The Edinburgh Building, Cambridge CB2 8RU, UK Published in the United States of America by Cambridge ... page intentionally left blank Mobilizing for HumanRights This volume argues that internationalhumanrights law has made a positive contribution to the realization of humanrights in much of the ... of Cambridge University Press First published in print format 2009 ISBN-13 978-0-511-65193-9 eBook (NetLibrary) ISBN-13 978-0-521-88510-2 Hardback ISBN-13 978-0-521-71232-3 Paperback Cambridge...
... justiciable and that they can and should be claimed All rights need to be treated as equal by national humanrights institutions in their efforts to promote and protect humanrights All humanrights ... determined and capable personnel The members of the institution and its staff must be committed to humanrights values and experienced in working for humanrights They must be credible humanrights advocates ... considered by the HumanRights Committee 14 Craig Scott, "The interdependence and permeability of humanrights norms: towards a partial fusion of the International Covenants on Human Rights" in...
... of Social Rights FWCW Fourth World Conference on Women GA General Assembly GBV Gender-based violence GLIN Global Legal Information Network HRBA Human Rights- Based Approach HRC HumanRights Council ... women and men, boys and girls, and the corresponding obligations of the State as the primary duty-bearer Humanrights standards have been negotiated by States and agreed upon in humanrights treaties, ... Commissioner on HumanRights (OHCHR) HumanRights Bodies.” Available at http://www.ohchr.org/EN/ HRBodies/Pages/HumanRightsBodies.aspx, accessed 25 August 2010 United Nations General Assembly, Convention...
... against humanrights abuses, information and sexual and reproductive health care, including by using available legal channels (e.g., courts, even if they are below the age of majority; humanrights ... regional, and international levels without creating an local, national, regional, and international levels They may additional burden of reporting This can be achieved by linking need mentoring by local ... recommendations: between consenting adults of the same sex; By reforming HIV testing should never be mandatory and always be these laws, governments can make great strides in enabling based on the...
... Berg, Carroll Bogert, Philippe Bolopion, Tess Borden, Amy Braunschweiger, Sebastian Brett, Reed Brody, Christen Broecker, Jane Buchanan, Wolfgang Buettner, Maria Burnett, Elizabeth Calvin, Haleh ... and respect internationalhumanrights law We enlist the public and the international community to support the cause of humanrights for all WORLD REPORT 2011 HUMANRIGHTS WATCH HumanRights Watch ... and Cooperation with Rights Abusers By Kenneth Roth In last year’s World Report, HumanRights Watch highlighted the intensifying attacks by abusive governments on humanrights defenders, organizations,...
... Nonetheless, humanrights remains the standard, and gross humanrights abuses, such as those at Abu Ghraib prison, cannot be publicly condoned Not only are humanrights being taken more seriously by governments, ... their bodily functions performed by machines Humans could enter into the world of pure thought by having their brains inhabit a “cube-like” piece of furniture In the nightmare envisioned by Borges, ... the former being replaced by an artificial, destruction-proof container, the latter by an infinitely replicable computer program Of course, the indestructible robot body inhabited by a digitalized...