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From Paradox to Subsidiarity : The United States and Human Rights Treaty Bodies
Melish, Tara J. - 2015
international human rights law's subsidiarity principle allow the U.S. to pursue a framework policy toward treaty body engagement … importance of giving the principle of subsidiarity its full and intended meaning in international human rights law. The piece … domestic decision-making processes. The challenge for domestic advocates is to ensure that this subsidiarity principle is …
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Legal Human Rights Research. The Use of Human Rights in Legal Analysis and Use of Legal Methods in Analysing Human Rights. An Introduction
van der Meulen, Bernd - 2017
The legal context may not be the only context in which human rights are applied, but it certainly is an important one. With a view to assessing human rights in the context both of the courtroom and of legal scholarship, this paper sets out some of the basics of law and legal method
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Bringing Human Rights Home? The Promises and Pitfalls of Rights Strategies in Social Justice Advocacy
Bob, Clifford - 2014
In social justice advocacy in the United States today, activists often use international human rights rhetoric, methods, standards, and institutions. What are the scope, purposes, and effects of this strategy? Is this something new? If so, how and when did this trend begin? This paper discusses...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014050285
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Climate change litigation and central banks
Setzer, Joana; Higham, Catherine; Jackson, Andrew; … - 2021
the world. The papers examine the evolution of climate-related cases, the scope of such cases and the varying grounds on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012795452
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Subsidiarity, Margin of Appreciation and International Adjudication within a Cooperative Conception of Human Rights
Iglesias Vila, Marisa - 2017
The projected inclusion of the subsidiarity principle and the margin of appreciation doctrine in the preamble to the … adjudication. I then use this political conception to present a non-statist reading of the subsidiarity principle, which is in …
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The Utility of Cross-Cutting Rights in Enhancing the Justiciability of Socio-Economic Rights of the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights
Bulto, Takele Soboka - 2012
The degree of justiciability (as well as enforcement) of the socio-economic rights of the African Charter have always played second fiddle to that of the traditional civil and political rights. Over two decades after the coming into force of the Charter, the African Commission has received...
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Homosexual Single Individuals’ Right to Adopt Before the European Court of Human Rights and in the French Legal Context
Falletti, Elena - 2021
This article illustrates how the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) reversed its jurisprudence on adoption by single homosexual individuals, and describes the consequences of this decision within the French legal system
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The Right to Life in the Perspective of the Human Rights Committee and the European Court of Human Rights
Kratochvil, Jan - 2007
The paper compares the case law on the right to life of the European Court of Human Rights and the Human Rights Committee. It is argued that the main interpretative method that both the Committee and the Court use is the principle of effective protection of the right to life in practice. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014053943
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Human Rights and Disinformation Under the Trump Administration : The Commission on Unalienable Rights
Blitt, Robert C. - 2022
The former administration of Donald J. Trump shattered norms governing the responsibility to relay accurate, truthful information to the public. Whether regarding trivialities or vital issues of the day, the “Trump Doctrine” unleashed a global torrent of damaging misinformation and...
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