'human rights'

The Delivery of Human Rights reflects on two overlapping issues in international human rights law: how can existing norms be better implemented and effected, and how can other branches of international law or other international actors be used so as ...

A right to equality and non-discrimination is widely seen as fundamental in democratic legal systems. But failure to identify the human interest that equality aims to uphold reinforces the argument of those who attack it as morally empty or ...

According to the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, business owe remediation when they ?cause? or ?contribute to? a human rights impact, but not when they are only ?directly linked to? it. These terms determine when a ...

This chapter discusses the conflict between human rights and expulsion in the context of international refugee law and considers the constraints placed upon states by international human rights law with respect to their right to control entry and ...

Purpose - This paper aims to focus on accounting for human rights. It explores the validity of conflicting theoretical perspectives on accounting and their ability to reduce the gap between accounting and accountability for human rights. ...

Programme from the Human Rights in Asia 2009 conference held at the Human Rights Centre at the University of Essex. Full report not available. ...

In this paper we examine the Sustainable Development Goal 3 through the lens of state obligations to respect, protect and fulfil people?s human rights entitlements. We critique some of the Transforming Our World: The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable ...

This briefing aims to provide a short, concise and accessible introduction to the right to the highest attainable standard of health and is available in English, French and Spanish versions. This project was a joint initiative of the Human Rights ...

The United Nations human rights system has in recent years been divided on the question as to whether coercive care interventions, including coercive psychiatric care, can ever be justified under UN human rights standards. Some within the UN human ...

One of the things we have learned so far is that the realization of human rights, especially economic and social rights, requires resources as well as laws. The availability and use of resources is strongly influenced by the type of economic ...