Human rights and the environment are inherently linked. This connection is even stronger in cases of indigenous peoples rights, the close ties they have with the land is the fundamental basis of their cultural, spiritual, and material life. Although inherent, this link between human rights and...

The ability to protect and safeguard cultural heritage is of vital importance to some communities. Without the ability to maintain control over these expressions, external subjects could freely appropriate them, which could negatively affect the community’s identity, spirituality, and general...

Many of the chapters in this book address the importance of strengthening links between the developing international law on disaster risk reduction, on the one hand, and older international environmental regimes, on the other. The present essay examines another relevant area that can often be...

This thesis aims to provide a comprehensive description on the issues counted in the copyright protection of the Internet Standard. The self-contained mechanism protecting the Internet Standard needs multiple private licenses which make the protection indirect and complicated. Some scholars...

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

International human rights law will offer values, norms and principles that modify a normative definition of democracy. This paper, examines the key components of Minorities, Vulnerable and underprivileged Groups: Values, Norms and Principles in democracy as derived from international human...

Under Australian law the children of refugee parents executively assessed as national security risks can be indefinitely held in administrative detention without effective judicial safeguards. This article examines the international human rights law impacts of adverse security assessments...

A new wave of international discussion on an international binding instrument on business and human rights was triggered by the proposal for a business and human rights treaty by some states, originally represented by Ecuador and South Africa. Through its resolution A/HRC/RES/26/9 in June 2014,...

Although collective cultural rights are included in international human rights law, their precise place and their nature and significance are not well-explored or understood. This paper aims to show where collective cultural rights can be found in international human rights law and explore how...

The right to development is one of the most contested rights, continuing to attract the attention of academics, international lawyers and scholars in the development discourse. Since the adoption of the United Nations Declaration on the Right to Development in 1986, the question whether a legal...