The civil and political rights as protected under the Covenant from the core of human rights protection on the international plane. This paper seeks to demonstrate how this goal may be archieved. The genesis of the Covenant will be discussed in the context of the evolution of human rights law....

According with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the ideal of free human beings can not be achieved unless conditions that allow everyone to enjoy their economic, social and cultural as well as civil and political rights are created Freedom of expression is a fundamental human right to...

Current practices in municipal law, as orchestrated by UN conventions and doctrine in international law proclaim that nearly every person is born with citizenship. However, instead of serving as an individual claim of right, governments use the label of citizenship to extract labor, wealth, and...

In his trilogy "Homo Sacer", "State of Exception" and "What remains of Auschwitz", Giorgio Agamben analyzes important aspects of the human condition and the ways in which human rights were perceived over the centuries. Through an internationalist perspective, and based on the concepts brought...

Access to food is essential to human survival and the “right to food” is a fundamental human right whose fulfillment impinges on the realization of most other human rights. Yet the pervasiveness of human hunger worldwide starkly illustrates the ongoing failure to fulfill the "right to food."...

Dans le contexte de l’actuelle communauté internationale et des relations internationales actuelles, en plein changement et de grande complexité, le droit international public se trouve en plein processus de renouvellement et d’accentuation de son caractère humanitaire. Il apparaît comme...

This paper adapts the economic and social rights index (ESRF) developed by Fukuda-Parr et. al. (2009) to assess the extent to which each of the 50 U.S. states fulfills the economic and social rights obligations set forth in the International Covenant on Economic Social and Cultural Rights. It...

The conference paper deals with the current debate on the specificity of sports in the international and EU law. Does the specificity play any role in the context of international law – e.g. in the international human rights and labour law? At the EU level, the idea of specificity was...

The article presents the problem of the report between the (European) Convention for the protection of the human fundamental rights and liberties as a juridical document of international law and the inter law of the member states of the European Council, spotlighting the incorporation manner of...