The mother of all crimes

Human Rights, criminalization and the child born alive

This book considers the appropriate response of the criminal law with regard to women whose acts or omissions in pregnancy cause the death or injury of the child born alive. It compares recent developments in English law in the light of the Human Rights Act ...

Defining civil and political rights

the jurisprudence of the United Nations Human Rights Committee

INDEX: Introduction, Scott Davidson; Procedure under the optional protocol, Scott Davidson; Self-determination, Richard Burchill; Democratic and civil rights, Alex Conte; Security of the person, Alex Conte; The judicial process, Alex Conte; Privacy, honour and reputation, Alex Conte; Equality and non-discrimination, Scott Davidson; Minority rights, Richard ...

Protection of Property Rights within the European Convention on Human Rights

This work discusses the concept of property as a human right within the context of the European Convention on Human Rights. Within the last two decades, the Article established by the Convention has become a significant human rights instrument for member states of the Convention ...

Understanding Human Rights violations

new systematic studies

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 ...

Libertad religiosa y Derechos Humanos

L'obbligo di conformarsi alle sentenze della Corte Europea dei Diritti dell'Uomo

L'art. 46, par.1, della Convenzione europea per la salvaguardia dei diritti dell'uomo e delle libertà fondamentali stabilisce che "le Altre Parti contraenti si impegnano a conformarsi alle sentenze definitive della Corte nelle controversie delle quali sono parti". Il volume si propone di ...

Corporations and transnational Human Rights litigation

Since the mid-1980s, beginning with the unsuccessful Union Carbide litigation in the USA, litigants have been exploring ways of holding multinational corporations [MNCs] liable for offshore human rights abuses in the courts of the company's home States. The highest profile cases have been the ...

A handbook of International Human Rights terminology

A vital reference work for navigating the language of international human rights related to law, jurisprudence, politics, diplomacy, and philosophy Contains over four hundred new commonly used key terms and acronyms as well as corrections to terms that have taken on new meaning since the ...

Human rights brought home

socio-legal pespectives on Human Rights in the national context

What practical impact does the incorporation of international human rights standards into domestic law have? This collection of essays explores human rights in domestic legal systems. The enactment of the Human Rights Act in 1998, ushering the European Convention on Human Rights fully into UK ...

Droit international, droits de l'homme et juridictions internationales

Actes de la table ronde du 10 juillet 2003 organisée par l'Institut international del droits de l'homme

Façonné par les juridictions chargées spécialement de son contrôle, le droit international des droits de l'homme s'est considérablement développé, marquant chaque fois que cela est nécessaire, son autonomie en fonction de sa spécificité : garantir de manière effective et concrète les obligations objectives et ...

La liberté religieuse et la Convention européenne des droits de l'homme

Le port d'insignes religieux dans les écoles a donné lieu, ces dernières années, à de vifs débats au regard du principe de laïcité et de la liberté de religion. La Cour européenne des droits de l'homme et, avant elle, l'ancienne Commission ont ...

El jardin secreto

los defensores de los Derechos Humanos en Marruecos

Tras iniciar una tímida liberalización política, Marruecos fue en la década de los noventa uno de los países de la región mediterránea que más esperanzas suscitó en la evolución hacia la democracia y el respeto de los derechos humanos. Pasados los años, la realidad nos ...

Epílogo a la Teoría de los Derechos Fundamentales

El trabajo que ahora se presenta, adelantado ya en el número 66 de la Revista Española de Derecho Constitucional, fue redactado para servir como epílogo a la traducción inglesa de la Teoría de los Derechos Fundamentales. Esta obra es parte, aunque parte esencial, de una ...

Derecho internacional de los Derechos Humanos

El libro es un esfuerzo por reflejar en una sola obra la diversidad y complejidad del Derecho internacional de los Derechos HUmanos. En ella se introduce al lector al entendimiento del alcance de las obligaciones internacionales de protección de los mismos. Se explica la relación ...

Identidad indígena y Derecho estatal en Colombia

La Consagración constitucional durante la década de lso noventa en los países andinos de un régimen jurídico especial para los pueblos indígenas ha despertado un problema tan antiguo como complicado: la definición legal de la identidad indígena. Este trabajo analiza la transformación histórica del pensamiento ...

Global governance and the quest for justice

.Vol.IV: Human Rights

A short set of essays examining the impact of globalisation upon international human rights.

The rights of others

aliens, residents, and citizens

The Rights of Others examines the boundaries of political community by focusing on political membership - the principles and practices for incorporating aliens and strangers, immigrants and newcomers, refugees and asylum seekers into existing polities. Boundaries define some as members, others as aliens. But when state ...

Pena de muerte

mitos y realidades

Abordar el tema de la pena de muerte es atrevernos a buscar en las entrañas del ser humano. Implica navegar en aguas profundas y movedizas, siempre sujetas a los vaivenes que entraña el comportamiento a veces inexplicable de las personas. El presente trabajo trata el ...

Political theory of global justice

a cosmopolitan case for the world state

Cosmopolitan thinkers challenge the widely held belief that we owe more to our co-citizens than to those in other countries. This book offers a moral argument for world government, claiming that not only do we have strong obligations to people elsewhere, but that accountable integration ...

Les opinions séparées des judges à la Cour Européenne des Droits de l'Homme

Posant comme hypothèse de recherche que les opinions séparées jouent dans le système de la Convention européenne des droits de l#homme un rôle identique à celui tenu par la doctrine, la présente étude se veut résolument analytique, une démarche théorique ne permettant pas en ...