'human rights'

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The chapter analyses examples of post-conflict environmental damage and suggests how human rights legal mechanisms could provide vital assistance in their remedy. Environmental remediation in the post-conflict context tends to emanate from ...

Report from the Human Rights in Asia 2010 conference held at the Human Rights Centre at the University of Essex. ...

Report from the Human Rights in Asia 2011 conference held at the Human Rights Centre at the University of Essex. ...

Sexual and reproductive health are among the most sensitive and controversial issues in international human rights law, but they are also among the most important. This publication examines the outcomes of the International Conference on Population ...