Human Rights Violation in UK Law
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Extradition as the Violation of Human Rights. The Jurisprudence of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
The decision of the Human Rights Committee in Kindler vs. Canada1 marked its first substantive decision on the subject of the violation of human rights under the International Covenant on Civil and...
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State monopoly of ‘permitted violation of human rights’: The decision of the Supreme Court of Israel prohibiting the private operation and management of prisons
The emergence of private sector management of state prisons over the last 30 years has been controversial. It has been strongly argued that the administration of prisons is a core state function th...
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Delfi AS v Estonia: The Liability of Secondary Internet Publishers for Violation of Reputational Rights under the European Convention on Human Rights
In October 2013, the European Court of Human Rights in Delfi AS v Estonia upheld a decision of the Estonian Supreme Court to impose liability on the owners of an internet news portal for defamatory...
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Of Rights and Rhetoric: Discourses of Degradation and Exploitation in the Context of Sex Trafficking
International condemnations of people trafficking (particularly of women and girls for prostitution) as a human rights violation have proliferated in recent times. The deployment of human rights in...... ... trafficking (particularly of women and girls for prostitution) as a human rights violation have proliferated in recent times. The deployment of ... ...
- Provision of Remedies for Violation of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights: A Comparative Study of the United Nations, Inter-American and African Human Rights Systems
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Subsidiarity of Human Rights in Practice: The relationship between the Constitutional Court and Lower Courts in Czechia
The principle of subsidiarity is viewed as the cornerstone of the protection of human rights. Internationally, it is primarily the responsibility of states to ensure that human rights are respected...... ... if lower courts apply humanrights, then there is a lowerchance that the ConstitutionalCourt, as an apex court, will find a human rig hts violation in that par ticular case. By stati stical analysis of hu ndreds of decisions of C zech courts this hypothesis is conf irmed. The findin gs are ... ...
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Comment: The Principle of Universal Jurisdiction for Massive Human Right Violation of the Past: An International and Ethiopian Perspective
Confronting egregious human rights violations and repressive past is an arduous and necessary task to end the cycle of impunity. Bearing in mind Ethiopia‟s notable contribution to the peace and sec...... ... DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/mlr.v13i1.7 ... Adi Dekebo Dale ♦ ... Abstract ... Confronting egregious human rights violations and repressive past is an arduous and necessary task to end the cycle of impunity. Bearing in mind Ethiopia’s notable contribution to ... ...
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The control of corruption
Reviews the present role of corruption in English law, pointing out that there is actually no offence of corruption, nor of fraud, although there is a draft bill to establish the general offence of...... ... some quarters as invariably contrary tothe Human Rights Act 1998 and the EuropeanConvention on ... ...
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“He invited me and didn't ask anything in return” Migration and Mobility as Vulnerabilities for Sexual Exploitation among Female Adolescents in Mexico
Although human trafficking is recognized as a major human rights violation, there is limited evidence regarding the vulnerabilities that contribute to female adolescents’ risk of being forced or co...... ... Silverman * , *** ABSTRACT Although human traf fi cking is recognized as a major human hts violation, there is limited evidence regarding the ... is a severe violation of human rights (United Nations Human Rights Of fi ce of the ... ...
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Unilateral declarations and the European Court of Human Rights: Between efficiency and the interests of the applicant
Faced with numerous repetitive applications, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has welcomed the unilateral declaration mechanism as a way to handle these efficiently. In a unilateral decla...... ... In a unilateral declaration, the state admits a human rights violation and promises to provide redress to the applicant. On that basis, the Court strikes out an application and does not deal with its merits. Some authors ... ...
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