The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 15,71 MB
Release : 1978
Category : Civil rights
ISBN :
Corporal Punishment of Children: A Human Rights Violation
Author : Susan Bitensky
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 41,89 MB
Release : 2006-06-14
Category : Law
ISBN : 9047431162
Book Description
The core of this book is a detailed analysis of the status of corporal punishment of children, including Areasonable spankings by parents, under international human rights law. The analysis leads compellingly to the conclusion that such punishment is indeed a human rights violation, consonant with modern norms about right and decent treatment of juveniles. The book further provides a comparative analysis between the domestic laws of the seventeen nations that ban all corporal punishment of children (Sweden, Finland, Norway, Austria, Cyprus, Denmark, Germany, Iceland, Bulgaria, Croatia, Latvia, Hungary, Romania, Ukraine, Israel, Italy, and Portugal) and examples of the domestic laws in the countries that still permit some physical chastisement of children (United States and Canada). Because it is anticipated that a good number of readers will be surprised to learn that this disciplinary practice has become a human rights law violation, the book also engages in an in-depth exegesis of the psychological evidence and historical and philosophical reasons warranting prohibition of all corporal punishment of children as an imperative policy choice. The work probes as well why, once that choice is made, it is essential to use legal bans on the punishment inasmuch as they have uniquely effective pedagogical and therapeutic roles and give some permanence to humanity’s hard won understanding about protecting the young from violence. Published under the Transnational Publishers imprint.
Corporate Human Rights Violations
Author : Stefanie Khoury
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 46,21 MB
Release : 2016-12-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1317216067
Book Description
This book develops an analysis of the historical, political and legal contexts behind current demands by NGOs and the United Nations Human Rights Council to hold corporations accountable for their human rights violations. Based on an analysis of the range of mechanisms of accountability that currently exist, it argues that that those demands are a response to the failure of neo-liberal policies that have dominated the practice of politics and law since the emergence of this debate in its current form in the 1970s. Offering a new approach to understanding how struggles for hegemony are refracted through a range of legal challenges to corporate human rights violations, the book offers a fresh perspective for understanding how those struggles are played out in the global sphere. In order to analyse the prospects for using human rights law to challenge the right of corporations to author human rights violations, the book explores the development of a range of political initiatives in the UN, the uses of tort law in domestic courts, and the uses of human rights law at the European Court of Human Rights and at the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. This book will be essential reading for all those interested in how international institutions and NGOs are both shaping and being shaped by global struggles against corporate power.
Damages for Violations of Human Rights
Author : Ewa Bagińska
Publisher : Springer
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 46,56 MB
Release : 2015-10-20
Category : Law
ISBN : 3319189506
Book Description
This volume analyses the legal grounds, premises and extent of pecuniary compensation for violations of human rights in national legal systems. The scope of comparison includes liability regimes in general and in detail, the correlation between pecuniary remedies available under international law and under domestic law, and special (alternative) compensation systems. All sources of human rights violations are embraced, including historical injustices and systematical and gross violations. The book is a collection of nineteen contributions written by public international law, international human rights and private law experts, covering fifteen European jurisdictions (including Central and Eastern Europe), the United States, Israel and EU law. The contributions, initially prepared for the 19th International Congress of Comparative law in Vienna (2014), present the latest developments in legislation, scholarship and case-law concerning domestic causes of action in cases of human rights abuses. The book concludes with a comparative report which assesses the developments in tort law and public liability law, the role of the constitutionalisation of the right to damages as well as the court practice related to the process of enforcement of human rights through monetary remedies. This country-by-country comparison allows to consider whether the value of protection of human rights as expressed in international treaties, ius cogens and in national constitutional laws justifies the conclusion that the interests at stake should enjoy protection under the existing civil liability rules, or that a new cause of action, or even a whole new set of rules, should be created in national systems.
Human rights violation
Author : Jebagnanam Cyril Kanmony
Publisher : Mittal Publications
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 23,55 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Human rights
ISBN : 9788183243476
Book Description
Study conducted at Kanyakumari and Tirunelveli districts of Tamil Nadu, India.
Understanding Human Rights Violations
Author : Steven C. Poe
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 25,12 MB
Release : 2019-06-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1351143786
Book Description
Originally published in 2004. This excellent volume presents a systematic analysis of various human rights violations around the globe, focusing on security and subsistence rights. The book collects important contributions to the theoretical development of the human rights phenomenon, covering a wide range of human rights issues and research approaches. The research presented combines a variety of qualitative and quantitative approaches and brings together both theoretical and empirical work. It places particular emphasis on making the advanced statistical methods that are used to test the arguments accessible to a wider readership. Understanding Human Rights Violations will prove a useful tool for all in the fields of international human rights, peace studies, political violence and international law, and offers a valuable introduction into the literature on human rights violations.
Remedies for Human Rights Violations
Author : Kent Roach
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 633 pages
File Size : 16,32 MB
Release : 2021-04-08
Category : Law
ISBN : 1108417876
Book Description
Justifies a two-track approach that includes individual and systemic remedies in both domestic and international human rights law.
Accountability for Human Rights Violations by International Organisations
Author : Eva Brems
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 20,52 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Human rights
ISBN : 9781780680668
Book Description
With the proliferation of international organizations and their ever increasing role in a wide range of policy fields, situations multiply in which human rights are threatened or violated through the actions, operations, or policies of such organizations. This book is the first to explore these problems in a comprehensive manner and to examine the accountability mechanisms that are available. In the first section, the contributions study general concepts, such as the accountability of international organizations as an evolving legal concept, international organizations as independent actors, the logic of sliding scales in the law of international responsibility, and the relations between the international organizations and their Member States in regard to their respective obligations and responsibilities. Subsequent parts of the book focus on the accountability for human rights violations attributable to international organizations in four areas: peace and humanitarian operations, international civil administration, economic governance, and the staff of international organizations.
Human Rights and Statistics
Author : Thomas B. Jabine
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 30,13 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780812231083
Book Description
Violations - Judith Dueck.
Confronting Past Human Rights Violations
Author : Chandra Lekha Sriram
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 30,83 MB
Release : 2004-08-12
Category : Education
ISBN : 113576820X
Book Description
This book examines what makes accountability for previous violations more or less possible for transitional regimes to achieve. It closely examines the other vital goals of such regimes against which accountability is often balanced. The options available are not simply prosecution or pardon, as the most heated polemics of the debate over transitional justice suggest, but a range of options from complete amnesty through truth commissions and lustration or purification to prosecutions. The question, then, is not whether or not accountability can be achieved, but what degree of accountability can be achieved by a given country. The focus of the book is on the politics of transition: what makes accountability more or less feasible and what strategies are deployed by regimes to achieve greater accountability (or alternatively, greater reform). The result is a more nuanced understanding of the different conditions and possibilities that countries face, and the lesson that there is no one-size-fits-all prescription that can be handed to transitional regimes.
