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13 Mar 2014, 9:30 pm by Karen Tani
Taking as its example human rights, it develops a distinctive kind of conceptual analysis that enables us to see with precision how the concept of human rights was formed in the eighteenth century.The first chapter outlines an innovative account of concepts as cultural entities. [read post]
The post Rights organizations report increasing persecution of activists in Venezuela appeared first on JURIST - News - Legal News & Commentary. [read post]
8 May 2009, 5:24 am
Researchby Human Rights Watch found that nationwide, 59 percent of youth serving life without parole sentences received the sentence for their first criminal conviction, and 16 percent were 15 or younger at the time of their offense. [read post]
12 Jul 2012, 9:00 am
Communications and electronic information - On July 5, 2012, the Human Rights Council (HRC) of the United Nations, unanimously adopted a resolution to protect the free speech of individuals on the Internet, the first such U.N. resolution of its kind. [read post]
13 Oct 2022, 3:30 am by Katharine Young
First, the history of human rights has been distorted by the neat chronology of generations, whereby “second generation” rights to social security, education, food, health care, housing, and labor protections, succeeded the first generation of civil and political rights, with only the initial generation offering a mature, serious, and enforceable version of what gets to be labelled human rights. [read post]
28 Jun 2011, 9:00 am
Discrimination - On June 17, 2011, the United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC), by a narrow margin of 23-19 (with three abstentions), adopted its first resolution on rights for homosexuals and transgendered individuals, calling for an end to... [read post]
4 May 2010, 8:42 am by Jamil Dakwar, Human Rights Program
As a first step, the campaign has been calling on the administration to issue an executive order reconstituting the Interagency Working Group on Human Rights (IAWGHR). [read post]
5 Sep 2014, 4:06 am by Zoe Bedell
The European Court of Human Rights released its opinion in the case of Trabelsi v. [read post]
27 Jul 2022, 12:38 pm by Joe Patrice
The post Clarence Thomas Quits Law School Class, Depriving Students Of BOTH Sides Of The ‘Do Gay People Have Human Rights? [read post]
20 Aug 2008, 3:15 am
The first fleshes out an understanding of the subaltern concept. [read post]
1 May 2008, 12:14 am
In an article entitled "What Human Rights Law Could Do: Lamenting the Lack of an International Human Rights Law Approach in Boumediene and Al Odah" that I have forthcoming in the Israel Law Review, I wonder a little about why international human rights law appears to play so small a part in litigation relating to Guantánamo Bay. [read post]
” The post UK dispatch: new UK justice minister stresses primacy of domestic UK law in post-Brexit human rights adjudication and policymaking appeared first on JURIST - News. [read post]
13 Jun 2024, 8:25 am by Kaufman Dolowich
Fair Housing Under NYS Human Rights Law In New York State, the New York State Human Rights Law (“NYSHRL”) makes it illegal to discriminate in the sale, rental, or leasing of housing because of a protected characteristic. [read post]
12 Jul 2019, 9:22 am by Varun Nambiar
The post India officials raid prominent human rights lawyers over alleged misuse of foreign funding appeared first on JURIST - News - Legal News & Commentary. [read post]
23 Apr 2018, 2:00 pm by FM Librarian
Here is the blurb from the DipNote blog:"The Human Rights Reports document the status of human rights and worker rights in nearly 200 countries and territories. [read post]
” The post Chile becomes first country to pass neuro-rights law appeared first on JURIST - News - Legal News & Commentary. [read post]
The post Europe rights court finds UK’s GCHQ in breach of fundamental rights appeared first on JURIST - News - Legal News & Commentary. [read post]
8 May 2008, 4:12 pm
HUMAN RIGHTS PROGRESS: "A Malaysian Islamic court allowed a Muslim convert Thursday to return to her original faith of Buddhism, setting a precedent that could ease religious minorities' worries about their legal rights. [read post]