Criminalisation and penalisation have a foreseeably negative impact on a range of human rights. These include the right to life, liberty, autonomy and security of person; the right to equality and non-discrimination; the right to be free from torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment ...
Although sexual rights of LGBT people are internationally disputed, a global norm on LGBT acceptance and non-discrimination has been established since the 1970s as an outcome of the gay rights movement in Western Europe and North America. However, norm-c
The Question of Citizenship in the Baltics The 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights proclaims that "everyone has the right to a nationality [i.e., `citizenship']," and that "no one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his nationality nor denied the right to change his ... J Chinn,LA ...
Reuben Jonathan Miller, an associate professor at the University of Chicago Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice and a research professor at the American Bar Foundation, will present “Mass Incarceration, Voting Rights, and Citizenship” at Boston College on November 13 at 7 ...
Increasingly high-profile research is being undertaken into the socio-environmental challenges associated with the over-production and consumption of food from animals. Transforming food systems to mitigate climate change and hidden hunger, ensure food s
it becomes apparent that traditional economic analyses of commodity and labour tend to neglect the human subject by separating the human from their labour as homo œconomicus. To invoke such a false distinction between the rational and irrational reminds us that human beings are not only economic...
Hard to pick just one favorite! Right now, I’d say it’s poke. 8. What song makes you want to get up and sing/dance? I’m sure my daughter would prefer if nothing made me sing or dance, but I can’t help sing along whenever I hear They Might Be Giants’ cover of “Istanbul...
They were abandoned the moment they were declared citizens of Paraguay in 1884 (CODEHUPY, 2013), a moment that marked entry into a liminal relation with the state because the national declaration of indigenous citizenship brought to light the fact that indigenous peoples had hitherto been excluded...
When searching for the “sources” of social human rights at the international level, the canon of sources of international law, as stipulated in Article 38ICJ, is an obvious starting-point. According to this provision, international treaties are...
The study is dedicated to the complex relationship between the Alides (supporters of ‘Alī ibn Abī Ṭālib and their descendants, later called the Shi’is) and the Qur’an, especially in the early times of Islam. Several points are examined in order to put these relations into perspectiv...