Chapter 22 of Marie Breen-Smyth, Ashgate Companion to Political Violence (2012): Within the dominion of counter-terrorism, policy choices can be stark. One must determine in institutional terms whether the response is to be predominantly military or policing and, cutting across that boundary,...

In the book, some 25 authors report on the implementation of the ECHR in their respective countries, including questions of ratification and implementation in law, awareness by legal professionals, inclusion in the curricula of law schools, practice of the courts, cases brought to Strasbourg,...

This paper examines the recent violence in Nigeria following April 2011 elections as well as the violent political, ethnic and religious conflicts and unrests to date from a legal perspective. It discusses the culture of impunity prevalent in Nigeria due to the non apprehension of culprits and...

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...

This making known highlights the key problems about Myanmar-India relations, and therefore the main areas of concern with current Indian policy. Indian policy has modified markedly since the Nineteen Nineties, driven by realism and its own economic and strategic interests

Does a woman have a human right to resist rape or murder? Do people have a human right to resist tyranny? The United Nations Human Rights Council has said no - that international law recognizes no human right of self-defense. To the contrary, the Human Rights Council declares that very severe...

This paper analyses the necessity of fundamental rights protection in EU context as well as its problems in terms of the transfer of sovereignty by the Member States to the EU. It next analyses the approach which the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) took in the famous 'Bosphorus' judgment...

This article examines a number of options for regulating seclusion and restraint in Australia in light of international human rights standards and comparative international approaches. While seclusion and restraint can sometimes be beneficial for the protection of individuals, these practices...

With convergence-divergence as an organizing theme, this Article explores harm reduction and human rights as conceptual approaches to and discourses about unsafe abortion. The vehicle for this exploration is access to safer-use information on medication abortion, namely women’s...

There is no denying that human rights NGOs play an increasingly significant role at the international scene, their contributions to the development of human rights docket (treaties, principles and standards) and active participation in the implementation of the bill of rights at national levels...