Personal Rights in UK Law
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Social Rights as Components in the Civil Right to Personal Liberty: Another Step Forward in the Integrated Human Rights Approach?
The article seeks to get closer to an understanding of the legal implications of the notion of the indivisibility of human rights as distinct from the philosophical implications. While the first pa...
- The African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights and the Admissibility of Evidence Obtained as a Result of Torture, Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment: Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights and Interights v Arab Republic of Egypt
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Public prosecutors and the right to personal liberty: An analysis of the jurisprudence of the UN Human Rights Committee and the European Court of Human Rights
This article discusses the approach of the United Nations Human Rights Committee (HRC) and the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) to interpreting and applying the right to personal liberty, in ...
- The Sting is Always in the Tail. The Personal Scope of Application of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights
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The Anonymous Matrix: Human Rights Violations by ‘Private’ Transnational Actors
Do fundamental rights obligate not only States, but also private transnational actors? Since violations of fundamental rights stem from the totalising tendencies of partial rationalities, there is ...... ... social discourses ^ art, science, religion - against their subjugation by the totalising tendencies of the communicativ e matrix; secondly , personal rights protecting the autonomy of communication, a ttributed not to institutions, but to the social artefacts called ‘ persons’; and thirdly ... ...
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Political Gender Equality and State Human Rights Abuse
Feminist theorists argue that more equal societies that are not based on gender hierarchies ought to be less plagued by collective violence. This study tests whether...... ... The purpose of this study is to test whether political gender equality is associ- ated with lower levels of personal integrity rights abuse carried out by state agents, such as fewer political imprisonments, torture, killings, and disappearances. My two indi- cators ... ...
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Perpetrators of abuse against older women: a multi‐national study in Europe
Purpose: This article aims to explore the perpetrators of abuse among older women living in the community. The study examines whether differences between the perpetrators of different forms of abus...... ... , psychological, sexual,and financial abuse; violation of personal rights; and neglect. Furthermore, additional insights about themain ... ...
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Instruments of Security or Tools of Repression? Arms Imports and Human Rights Conditions in Developing Countries
Scholars traditionally have focused on arms as a means of deterring, initiating, maintaining, or terminating international war. Indeed, based on the assumption that a coercive military response is ...... ... To this end, this study tests the relationship between the importationof arms and the repression of personal integrity rights. Employing a pooled time-series cross-sectionaldesign, the patterns of arms acquisitions behavior and human rights violations are ... ...
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A developed understanding of the beneficiary’s interest in commercial trusts through a comparative study of Chinese law
Trusts have existed for centuries, while societies and economies have developed in the intervening years. This requires renovations, or new judicial interpretations, of what a trust is in order to ...... ... law, a beneficiary’s right can be explained as a special personal claim consisting of three parts: the main claim (personal claims), nant rights (rights of supervision) and security rights (rights of revocation). The ... ...
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Human Rights Rogues in Interstate Disputes, 1980–2001
Rogue states have typically been characterized as those states that consistently violate accepted international norms of behavior. While US foreign policymakers and ...... ... , the authors develop a rogue state index to identify human rights rogues, based on ethnic and gender discrimination and the violation of personal integrity rights. An import- ant part of the rogue state formula developed by policymakers over the recent decades is the expec- tation that such ... ...
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