No tribunal exists with specific subject matter jurisdiction to adjudicate during situations that may give rise to state violations of international humanitarian law. Meanwhile, human rights tribunals have the subject matter jurisdiction to resolve human rights disputes, and there are significant areas of...
Organizations such as Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch promote human rights and denounce human-rights abuses. In addition, such abuses around the world are monitored and documented by independent investigators (“special rapporteurs”) appointed by the UN Human Rights Council, which, in ...
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This article thus takes a close look at one of the most important of the elements of the new international legal order which human rights activists promote, the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY). It finds that the ICTY delivers a "justice" that is biased, with ...
human rights pl.n. The basic rights and freedoms to which all humans are considered to be entitled, often held to include the rights to life, liberty, equality, and a fair trial, freedom from slavery and torture, and freedom of thought and expression. ...
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Human Rights, Relativist argues that, is based on the western history and thus does not adhere to diverse culture globally prevalent and rather is pretentious towards culture. Therefore they doubt the relevance of the post conflict ad-hoc tribunal for Rawanda and the International Criminal Court ...
Human RightsCSRCorporationAsymmetryObligationsPublic International LawPrivate International LawCorporate SubjectivityCorporate PersonhoodThe December 2016 ICSID Tribunal Award of Urbaser v. Argentina — the latest in the ISDS arbitral saga spawned by the 2001 Argentine financial crisis — has cause...