This latest 'Innocenti Essay' outlines the legal and moral stance behind UNICEF's emerging human rights ethic. It goes on to consider the implications of this thinking in terms of the organisation's perceived future role. The author attempts to end the debate between the traditional development...

This paper studies whether refugee law should be centralized, how it should be centralized, and what are the consequences for migrants seeking protection as well as for host countries. Jurisdictions face different refugee in ows. We show that the resulting varying levels of strictness of the...

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...

A model is developed explaining many common historical sequences: inter alia, the rise and fall of empires, expansion or contraction in the geographic size of nations, wars of secession, non-contested secessions, and growth of supra-national unions. The basic unit of analysis is a transaction in...

In Spain, one of the most innovative content of the IX Legislature has been the exercise of parliamentary control by the Congress of Deputies on Peace and Reconstruction Operations performed abroad by the Armed Forces, who plays a key role in promoting values for peace, humanitarian aid and...

International law restricts a state’s use of a state of emergency to deprive its population of certain basic human rights. This article explores the application of these restrictions to a non-state actor -the United Nations - when it assumes the same functions of a state while administering...

The right to defense as a social value is necessary for any social environment, and the arising of its elements during various stages of civilization has witnessed a visible progress, considering that nowadays the acknowledgement of the right to defense is a common denominator in all procedural...

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...

Man enjoys the rights inherent in human beings wherever they are, regardless of status or region where they were born, live, work, regardless of nationality, race, sex, religious and philosophical beliefs, wealth, because these have a universal character , which is the cornerstone of the equal...