3 In the first 20 years of its existence, the Commission was primarily concerned with setting standards in the field of human rights, rather than dealing with human rights complaints. It developed the 1948 Universal Declaration UNHRCC condemnations and FDI Shaming constitutes an important component ...
The UN-CRPD is the most recent in a row of UN human rights declarations, beginning from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948 [2]. The ratifying states acknowledge that the principles of the UN-CRPD should be transposed into their national legislations. Guiding principles are ...
Footnote149 During the drafting of Article 27(1) of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) of 1948, the predecessor provision of the right to science in Article 15(1)(b) of the ICESCR, a Soviet-proposed formulation whereby science should serve democracy, peace, and co-operation ...
The UN Declaration on the Elimination of All Forms of Intolerance and of Discrimination Based on Religion or Belief (henceforth ‘Religious Discrimination Declaration’ or the ‘Declaration’) is clearly the ‘most important international instrument regarding religious rights and prohibition of intolerance ...
Norm Contestation at the UN Human Rights Council: SOGI and Religious RightsVoss, Michael Joel
This chapter analyses the dynamics of AI governance and advances a few ideas that should help us ensure an AI compliant with human dignity and freedom, human rights, democracy, and the rule of law. Human beings are shedding their ability to govern and exercise regulatory authority over their ow...
inequities that restrict access to equitable determinants of health [37]. Farmer emphasizes that structural violence constitutes a violation of human rights when power distributed through structures constrains individual human agency to the extent that meeting basic human needs becomes unattainable [35,37]...
Citation RSS feedAbstract The aged remain one of the few vulnerable groups without formalized protection in their own covenant. Attempts to secure a UN declaration on older persons' rights in 1948, 1991, and 1999 failed to gain traction, but the most recent attempt to launch a campaign has ga...
The declaration that equality is being served via this manipulation of the legal framework helps obscure this exclusion. As Crenshaw recognises, “Law in its almost infinite flexibility can assist in legitimating hierarchy simply by labelling the realm of the social equal, declaring victory, and ...
Generally, injuries occur due to acute bodily exposure to physical agents or forces in amounts or rates beyond the threshold of human tolerance and they may be classified as fatal or non-fatal [5]. The human and economic costs of occupational injuries (OIs) are quite significant [6]. The ...