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Racismo en Estados Unidos: llamado conjunto de varios mecanismos de derechos humanos de Naciones Unidas Ante las diversas protestas desatadas en Estados Unidos desde la muerte en manos de policías blancos del ciudadano norteamericano George Floyd en la ciudad de Minneapolis, varios mecanismos de derechos humanos de Naciones Unidas unieron …

Rules of Engagement and the International Law of Military Operations J.F.R. Boddens Hosang ISBN: 9780198853886 (Hardcover)Publicado: 03 March 2020Páginas: 368 The book systematically analyses the relationship and interaction between rules of engagement (ROE) and the legal framework regulating armed conflicts, both at the international and national levels. At the international …

The Law of International Human Rights Protection Second Edition Walter Kälin and Jörg Künzli ISBN: 9780198825692 (Hardcover)Publicado: 18 November 2019Páginas: 640 At a time when human rights are coming under increasing pressure, in-depth knowledge and understanding of their foundations, conceptual underpinnings and current practice remain crucial. The second edition of …

The Faces of Human Rights Editor(s): Kasey McCall-Smith, Jan Wouters, Felipe Gómez Isa ISBN: 9781509926916Publicado: 16-05-2019Páginas: 376 As human rights discourse increasingly focuses on analysing states and the institutions that promote and support the human rights machinery that states have created, this volume serves to recall that despite the growing …

The European Convention on Human Rights: the Draft Copenhagen Declaration and the Threat to the European Court by Roisin Pillay [Róisín Pillay is Director of the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) Europe Programme.]  The European Court of Human Rights is once more facing a political challenge to its role, in …

Sense and Nonsense of Territorial Referendums in Ukraine, and Why the 16 March Referendum in Crimea Does Not Justify Crimea’s Alteration of Territorial Status under International Law Yesterday, on 15 April 2014, Ukrainian interim president Turtschinov considered to hold, simultaneously with the presidential elections, a referendum on regional competences in …

PREPARATORY COMMISSION FOR THE INTERNATIONAL SEABED AUTHORITY AND FOR THE INTERNATIONAL TRIBUNAL FOR THE LAW OF THE SEA CUMULATIVE LIST OF DOCUMENTS (1983 -1995) Document No. List of delegations to the Preparatory Commission LOS/PCN/INF/1 List of delegations to the first session of the Preparatory Commission, Kingston, Jamaica, 15 March to …

Important Cases Against Russia before the European Court Just before the holidays the European Court of Human Rights rendered two important decisions in cases against the Russian Federation. First, a Chamber declared admissible the second interstate application filed by Georgia against Russia (Georgia v. Russia No. 2, App. No. 38263/08, …

Trinity Term [2011] UKSC 34 On appeal from: [2010] EWCA Civ 482 JUDGMENT Al Rawi and others (Respondents) v The Security Service and others (Appellants) before Lord Phillips, President Lord Hope, Deputy President Lord Rodger Lady Hale Lord Brown Lord Mance Lord Kerr Lord Clarke Lord Dyson JUDGMENT GIVEN ON …

Two New Decisions on Subject-Matter Immunity, Torture and Extrajudicial Killings Lorna McGregor, Senior Lecturer, School of Law, University of Essex. Her publications include: Torture and State Immunity: Deflecting Impunity, Distorting Sovereignty’, 18 European Journal of International Law 903 – 919 (2007) and ‘State Immunity and Jus Cogens’, 55(2) International and Comparative …

The High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina: A Requiem for LegalityDr Miroslav Baros is Senior Lecturer in Law at Sheffield Hallam University, UK. Introduction  ‘The Order further confirms that any proceeding instituted before any Court… which challenges [my] decisions sanctioning individuals …enacted by  me,  will be inadmissible, unless… I expressly give …

The General Assembly, Deeply concerned at the gravity of the international situation and the increasing threat to universal peace due to armed intervention and other direct or indirect forms of interference threatening the sovereign personality and the political independence of States, Considering that the United Nations, in accordance with their …