'human rights'

In the majority of countries, the right to health of persons with mental disabilities has been grossly neglected. Necessary healthcare and support services are frequently unavailable or inaccessible, while human rights abuses are often pervasive ...

This article analyses the EU Non-Financial Reporting Directive (2014/95) and argues that, while non-financial reporting is advocated as contributing to corporate social accountability, the Directive?s primary focus is on economic considerations such ...

Previous research suggests that most treaties are ineffective in ensuring countries' compliance with human rights standards. It has been argued, however, that preferential trade agreements (PTAs) including 'hard' human rights standards can withhold ...

This article argues that Chile has had a disproportionate effect on the international politics and law of human rights. Understood in traditional realist terms, Chile is a relatively small country that only recently joined the OECD and that should ...

Existing approaches to ?algorithmic accountability?, such as transparency, provide an important baseline, but are insufficient to address the (potential) harm to human rights caused by the use of algorithms in decision-making. In order to ...

BACKGROUND TO THE DEBATE: The human rights responsibilities of drug companies have been considered for years by nongovernmental organizations, but were most sharply defined in a report by the UN Special Rapporteur on the right to health, submitted ...

The debates over the relationship between International Humanitarian Law and International Human Rights Law, have often focused on the question of whether human rights law continues to apply during armed conflict, and if so, on how these two bodies ...

States are investing heavily in artificial intelligence (AI) technology, and are actively incorporating AI tools across the full spectrum of their decision-making processes. However, AI tools are currently deployed without a full understanding of ...

The digital age has brought new possibilities and potency to state surveillance activities. Significant has been the advent of bulk communications data monitoring, which involves the large-scale collection, retention, and subsequent analysis of ...

This article examines the applicability of international human rights law in situations of military occupation. Proceeding from the position that human rights obligations can exist in these circumstances, the article provides an analysis of the ...