'human rights'

Report from the Human Rights in Asia 2013 conference held at the Human Rights Centre at the University of Essex. ...

In the post-9/11 world, governments are using the threat of terrorism to justify tightening national security and restricting basic human rights. This timely book addresses the implications of this trend, revealing human rights inequities from ...

This chapter examines the Universal Periodic Review (UPR), a new peer-review procedure that provides scrutiny of each UN member state’s human rights record every five years. The review process culminates in a set of recommendations issued to each ...

This thesis provides a theoretically driven investigation with empirical evidence on the contexts in which judicial and political institutions promote human rights. In the first chapter I argue that judicial independence is not enough for courts to ...

Report from the Human Rights in Asia 2014 conference held at the Human Rights Centre at the University of Essex. ...

The debate about the simultaneous applicability of international humanitarian law and human rights law also affects human rights treaty bodies. The article first considers the difficulty for a human rights body in determining whether international ...

Report from the Human Rights in Asia 2012 conference held at the Human Rights Centre at the University of Essex. ...

There has been much discussion about the extent to which the jurisprudence of the EU courts gives adequate protection to human rights and, in particular, reflects the decisions of the European Court of Human Rights. This article aims to add to the ...

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 ...

Following the triumph of neoliberalism, trade and investment are considered to be the dominant routes to economic and social development. This has further enhanced the power of transnational corporations. Developing countries are increasingly ...