... War in Iraq: Not a Humanitarian Intervention HumanRights Watch World Report 2004: HumanRights and Armed Conflict 2004:13-35 [http://hrw.org/wr2k4/index.htm] New York: HumanRights Watch Bohannon ... Physicians for HumanRights (PHR) does a superb job of combining population-based surveys and humanrights questions (see below), it is a small player in comparison to major NGOs such as HumanRights ... and revenge toward Serbs [43] The extent and scope of humanrights abuses As noted above, PHR has pioneered efforts to use population-based surveys in assessing the extent of humanrights violations...
... THE INTERNATIONAL DECLARATION ON HUMANRIGHTS 3.1 Definition of an International Declaration 10 3.2 Purposes and typical legal characteristics of the International 10 Declaration on HumanRights ... an International Declaration on HumanRights 37 * Typical structure of an International Convention on HumanRights 38 * Sources of data 39 * References 40 * ANNEX I - Universal Declaration of Human ... linguistic features of the International Convention on HumanRights in comparison with those of the International Declaration on HumanRights 21 21 4.3.1.2 Remarks 4.3.2 The Beginning 4.3.1.1...
... Universal Declaration of HumanRights and European Charter on HumanRights (European Convention on Human Rights) Charter of the United Nations; Universal Declaration of Human Rights; International Covenants ... related instruments issued before E.g.: Charter of United Nations, Universal Declaration of Human Rights, International Covenants on Civil and Political Rights (Declaration on Protection from Torture) ... LINGUISTIC FEATURES OF THE INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION ON HUMANRIGHTS IN COMPARISON WITH THOSE OF THE INTERNATIONAL DECLARATION 20 4.1 DEFINITION OF AN INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION 'International Convention'...
... has, in the Universal Declaration of HumanRights and in the International Covenants on Human Rights, proclaimed and agreed that everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth therein, ... humanitarian assistance in the enjoyment of applicable rights set forth in the present Convention and in other internationalhumanrights or humanitarian instruments to which the said States are ... Human Rights, in the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (in particular in articles 23 and 24), in the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (in particular...
... vi Solidarity Rights Holders of HumanRights under International Law Individual and Group HumanRights Corporations and HumanRights Addressees of HumanRights Obligations under International ... Chapters The Protection of HumanRights under International Law Introduction The Protection of HumanRights under International Law Civil and Political Rights Economic, Social and Cultural Rights xxvii ... Municipal Law HumanRights Obligations Owed by International Organisations Sources of Legal Obligation – HumanRights under International Law Treaties HumanRights Treaties HumanRights Obligations...
... governments live up to their humanrights obligations The Universal Declaration of HumanRights sets out key humanrights principles that shape the rest of international law on human rights, including the ... mechanisms, international or domestic, may afford for advancing the humanrights of PLHIV as a constituency facing humanrights infringements We so with the conviction that the movement for humanrights ... on issues alone HIV and disability in the internationalhumanrights system One such area for collaboration is in international advocacy for the humanrights of people living with disabilities...
... European Commission of Human Rights, Application No 11056/84, 15 May 1986; (1988) HumanRights Law Journal 265–6 302f Re a Solicitor: H v United Kingdom, European Commission of Human Rights, Application ... 1962, (1962) Yearbook of the European Convention on HumanRights 88 308 note 269 European Court of HumanRights Ashingdane, European Court of Human Rights, 28 May 1985, Series A, No 93 281 note 145, ... The protection of the functioning and independence of an international organization A counterbalance to the relative weakness of internationalorganizations The influence of states on an international...
... involving internationalorganizations Types of cases involving internationalorganizationsbefore domestic courts When taking a phenomenological approach towards internationalorganizationsbefore ... or international arbitral bodies, of humanrights organs, such as the European Commission of HumanRights and the European Court of Human Rights, as well as of administrative tribunals of international ... Criminal Police Organization International Olympic Committee (US) InternationalOrganizations Immunities Act 1945 International Refugee Organization International Tin Council International Telecommunication...
... agreements of internationalorganizations – section 2(a) of the InternationalOrganizations Immunities Act 1945 (IOIA)71 provides for domestic legal status to be accorded to internationalorganizations ... ascertain the international legal personality of internationalorganizations According to the most prominent version of this theory of the ‘objective international personality’ of international organizations, ... Law of Treaties Between States and InternationalOrganizations or Between InternationalOrganizations lends itself to the interpretation ‘that internationalorganizations possess treaty-making...
... to internationalorganizations It gave the executive branch the power to grant a maximum of certain rights to internationalorganizations of which the UK and foreign states were members These rights ... settlement on the international level Immunity as a public international law question Domestic law rules on the immunity of internationalorganizations are determined by rules of public international ... granting immunity from suit to internationalorganizations either in general or to specific organizations. 515 Among the most well known are the US InternationalOrganizations Immunities Act 1945516...
... time before the passing of the IOIA – to deny any customary international law duty to extend any privileges and immunities to internationalorganizations Lawrence Preuss, ‘The InternationalOrganizations ... rule conferring immunity upon international organizations. 599 Whether internationalorganizations enjoyed immunity from German jurisdiction as a matter of customary international law was also at ... involving internationalorganizations concern organizations as defendants whose potential immunity may deprive domestic tribunals of their adjudicative competence Where international organizations...
... for internationalorganizations along the lines of the FSIA as a strong indication of the continuing absolute immunity standard for internationalorganizations Richard J Oparil, ‘Immunity of International ... willingness of US courts to view staff disputes of internationalorganizations as covered by the internationalorganizations immunity: ‘[A]n international organization’s self-regulation of its ... Michael Singer, ‘Jurisdictional Immunity of International Organizations: HumanRights and Functional Necessity Concerns’ (1995) 36 Virginia Journal of International Law 53–165 at 73 216 de s cr...
... to internationalorganizations might have been also a decisive factor for the European Commission of HumanRights to see no humanrights concerns 151 152 153 154 155 European Commission of Human ... safeguard one’s rights can be viewed as a ‘public good’ sought not only by individuals against international organizations, 5 but also by internationalorganizations in asserting their rights against ... states and internationalorganizations – in the course of justifying absolute immunity from suit of internationalorganizations – generally speaks of an ‘obligation imposed on international organizations...
... multilateral financial organizations, 11 international commodity agreements, etc A number of recent attempts to challenge measures of internationalorganizationsbeforeinternationalhumanrights organs ... European Court of Human Rights, 21 February 1975, Series A, No 18, para 35 European Commission of Human Rights, Application No 10475/83, October 1984 European Commission of Human Rights, Application ... Court of Human Rights, 28 May 1985, Series A, No 93, para 57; Lithgow and others, European Court of Human Rights, July 1986, Series A, No 102, para 194(b); Philis, European Court of Human Rights, ...
... the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 2(3) of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, Article 13 of the European Convention on Human Rights, etc., requiring states ... domestic and international courts The ultimate guarantee of the independent functioning of international organizations: retrospective instead of anticipated protection When internationalorganizations ... for the Protection of HumanRights (Dordrecht, Boston and London, 1993), 25–40 International Organizations, Internal Law and Rules’ in Bernhardt, Rudolf (ed.), Encyclopedia of Public International...
... Problems of InternationalOrganizations (1945) 22 British Yearbook of International Law 11–72 ‘The Legal Personality of InternationalOrganizations (1945) 22 British Yearbook of International ... of International Law 623–4 ‘Immunity of InternationalOrganizations – Waiver of Immunity – InternationalOrganizations Immunities Act, Mendaro v World Bank ’ (1984) 78 American Journal of International ... Universal InternationalOrganizations (1971) 65 American Journal of International Law 502–21 Osieke, Ebere, ‘Ultra Vires Acts in InternationalOrganizations – The Experience of the International...
... of humanrights and human dignity at the centre of that circle The first two ends speak of achieving peace based on humanrights and human dignity The third end speaks of establishing an international ... judges, contain a boundless treasury on international humanitarian law and humanrights law As a matter of fact the Court’s record on internationalhumanrights adjudication, like most of its jurisprudence, ... judges of the International Court of Justice, not being a special humanrights court such as the European Court of Human Rights, end up being a vital force in the life of humanrights law ‘The...
... of humanrightsHumanrights as an article of faith According to a standard definition, humanrights are those rights one has by virtue of being human. 1 This definition suggests that humanrights ... Strasbourg humanrights case law A kaleidoscopic reading of the Convention Not one, but several concepts of humanrights The moral stance of humanrights nihilism Neither simply for nor against humanrights ... ‘secular religion’ of human rights, I am not merely a humanrights agnostic but also a humanrights atheist, for I am ready to affirm the non-existence, across the ages, of humanrights Going further,...