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14 Feb 2024

European Court of Human Rights, Hirst vs United Kingdom (No. 2) [2005] ECHR 74025/01 - The mechanism to promote judicial and national dialogue

Law case study - 3 pages - International law

This document critically examines the impact of the judgment of the European Court of Human Rights in Hirst v United Kingdom (No. 2) [2005] ECHR 74025/01 as a mechanism to promote judicial and national dialogue. In Hirst v United Kingdom, the country faced the European Court of...

22 Feb 2024

To what extent have human rights been defended and promoted by African constitutionalism? - Detailed plan and introduction

Essay - 3 pages - Law's history and philosophy

Human rights violations in Africa affect almost all countries. They arise from structural and circumstantial violence, which is uncontrolled and sometimes even encouraged. There are several reasons for this: firstly, African leaders are only concerned with protecting and defending...

31 Oct 2023

The State of the Questions Regarding Human Rights and Development in Chile, a Developing Country

Case study - 8 pages - International economy

As part of our research, we undertook an in-depth study of a specific subject that captivated us and aroused our keen interest. This research turned out to be an exciting exploration, as it enabled us to deepen our knowledge and develop expertise in a Chilean particular field. Chile represents...

10 Aug 2023

Femicide and Human Rights: Understanding and Classifying Gender-Based Violence under E.U. Law

Thesis - 20 pages - Public liberties

In 2008, the United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, during the launch of a campaign intending to end violence targeting women, said that the only global truth is that "violence against women is never acceptable, never excusable, never tolerable". The statement was a revelation that society...

07 Jul 2015
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Freedom of religion: an endangered freedom but protected by the European Convention on Human Rights

Case study - 4 pages - Educational studies

To quote Professor Catherine Teitgen-Colly, "political pluralism, respect for human rights and the rule of law have become true" statutory conditions ". In terms of the constituent rights of democratic society, the fundamental rights guaranteed by the Convention are...

17 Apr 2015
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Dictatorships - Human Rights

Case study - 3 pages - Educational studies

Violations of human rights are a common feature in forced rule. In the book A Lexicon of Terror, the author shows the methods used to create to empower the illegitimate leaderships and suppress their opposition. The book also proceeds to show how in these regimes, violations of...

17 Apr 2015
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Against human rights - Slavoj Zizek

Case study - 2 pages - Educational studies

Slavoj Žižek proposes an argumentthat goes against all the basis on the contemporarysocieties. He proposes that human rights are not as relevant as they are made to be. He uses the belief that human rights rests on three assumptions, reducing the ability of...

12 May 2015
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Libyan human rights

Case study - 3 pages - Political science

Libya has been plagued by various issues that have been repugnant to the attainment of the required levels of democracy. Traditions and norms applicable in the region have affected the nation in such a manner that the majority of the people has turned out to be less receptive to the attempts to...

07 Jul 2015
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The European Convention: Human Rights

Case study - 3 pages - Educational studies

The European Convention on Human Rights, however, is a model of effective protection of human rights in that it has a binding force. This is possible due to judicial review of compliance with the rights enshrined in the first instance, the control of the...

28 Jul 2015
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Gay rights and human rights

Essay - 1 pages - Other law subjects

All humans should share certain rights, regardless of their identity. However, this is not the case in multiple states. Our country has been rid of laws that discriminate based on race. Nevertheless, one discriminating factor is prevalent within our nation. Homosexuals are still...

28 Jul 2015
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The European Human Rights model

Essay - 6 pages - Political science

The interpretation as well as the application of international human rights conventions has never been an easy task. Even though the international courts have been tasked with the responsibility of interpreting the international human right conventions, the function of...

18 Aug 2014
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Human rights violation in North

Case study - 3 pages - Educational studies

Human rights are based on the rule of respect for human life and the individual. The fundamental supposition of human rights is that every person is a moral, rational being who deserves to be treated with reverence and dignity. Human rights are...

07 Nov 2014
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Exploitation of human rights of undocumented workers in the United States

Case study - 5 pages - Educational studies

Undocumented workers area at risk throughout the American States and their lines are in danger. Their human rights are violated all times and their rights as workers abridged without the knowledge of the appropriate authorities. Protecting this group of people is becoming...

29 Oct 2014
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Public Law -The Human Rights Act 1998

Case study - 4 pages - Educational studies

Protection of human rights has been the focus of many governments and states in the world. The United Nations, for instance, has put in place a number of rules and regulations that revolve around human rights and which all members should adhere. The United Kingdom is...

12 Nov 2013
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Applying cultural relativism to the universal declaration of human rights

Case study - 2 pages - Educational studies

The world at present is composed of countless cultures, each distinctively represented by various languages, religions, and practices. Any individual attempting to study the concept of culture must do so with an open mind, and must also attempt to discard any ethnocentric ideologies. This...

21 Jun 2012
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Examination of human rights violations in the African nation of Djibouti

Essay - 2 pages - Political science

Surrounded by Eritrea, Ethiopia and Somalia, Djibouti is situated in the horn of Africa. This Easter African nation was populated by over 818.159 inhabitants in 2009, according to the country's census (Ministère de l'Economie, des Finances et de la Planification - Djibouti, 2010). Since its...

27 Feb 2012
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Essay on human rights

Thesis - 10 pages - Social, moral & civic education

"Imagine that you are creating a fabric of human destiny with the object of making men happy in the end [...], but that it was essential and inevitable to torture to death only one tiny creature [...], would you consent to be the architect on those conditions?". There, Fyodor Dostoevsky...

10 Mar 2011
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Women's Rights are Human Rights: An overview

Thesis - 5 pages - Constitutional law

Women make up 70% of the world's poor population and 65% of the world's illiterate. On average, women are still paid, 65 cents to every dollar earned by men in the Western countries. Women form a marginalized group, and these statistics only paint a fraction of the picture. Still, women...

26 Mar 2010
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International organizations and the protection of human rights

Thesis - 3 pages - International relations

This is the perception that certain behavior is required by law; a duty that is legally obliged. Customary law that is drawn from the practice of States accompanied by the opinion juris, is therefore a conviction that law requires the practice set. The performance of opinio juris would be in...

26 Mar 2010
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Law of international human rights and detainees at Guantanamo Bay naval base

Thesis - 5 pages - International law

Since the terror attacks of September 11 and the official war on terror has commenced, questions have been raised as to how the United States should engage itself in regard to both its military operations and treatment of enemy combatants. Debate over the United States applying rules of war,...

29 Sep 2010
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What are the common classical liberal assumptions about human rights and how are they criticized by Proudhon, Marx, Engels, and Bebel?

Essay - 3 pages - Economy general

The United States declaration of rights proclaims three main rights: right to life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness. They are perceived as intrinsic to human beings. These principles were built in opposition to the monarchy and were supposed to ensure the people...

29 Sep 2010
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Habermas and Rorty - the existence of universal human rights

Essay - 4 pages - Political science

Human rights have been taken for granted in the Western world. It was asserted that they were universal and every human being was entitled to them on the ground that he or she was human. These rights are considered as inalienable since they are inseparable from...

29 Sep 2010
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Human Rights of the Dead : Posthumous interests

Essay - 5 pages - Civil law

The question of death and the deceased is at the core of the definition of human rights. Dead persons do not perceive harm: they are not in contact with the world and are unaware of reality considering they do not exist. They cannot claim their rights neither can they file a...

12 Aug 2010
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A letter to the United Nations commission on human rights

Thesis - 2 pages - Social, moral & civic education

This is a letter asking you to consider the long-standing whaling conflict around the Makah tribe, in Northwest United States, as a human rights violation. The case has the potential to greatly impact the day-to-day lives of many Makah people, and to determine the continuation of a...

17 May 2009
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Human Rights in China since the Tiannemen incident in 1989

Thesis - 7 pages - Modern history

On June 4th 1989, Deng Xiaoping and nine other members of the permanent Comity commanded the Prime Minister Li Peng to repress the occupation of Tiannenmen square by millions of students. Actually, this manifestation had started on the2nd of April by the students' reaction who wanted to pay...

17 May 2009
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The evolution of human rights enforcement

Thesis - 8 pages - Social, moral & civic education

The end of the second world conflict has set the beginning of the institutionalization of Human Rights at a world scale: the previous events have indeed made most of the country think about a way to reach a world consensus about basic rights that each single human...

13 Nov 2009
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To what extent is the criminal justice system consistent with article 6 of the European convention on human rights?

Thesis - 6 pages - European law

At the heart of any legal system is the criminal justice system and it is a paramount that the system is fair in order to be effective—this is ensured through a fair trial, without which, the whole system would be illegitimate. We only have to look to the political ‘show trials' of the...

17 May 2009
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Anna Politkovskaya: A woman, journalist and human rights activist in contemporary Russia

Essay - 4 pages - Services marketing

am a pariah”. This is how Anna Politkovskaya defines herself in the beginning of a posthumous article published by The Guardian on October 14th, 2006. Seven days before, on October 7th, around 5 pm, she was murdered in her flat in still non-clarified circumstances. Her death occurred while...

16 Jan 2009
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Democratic Republic of Sao Tomé e Principe: Parties, influence groups and human rights

Essay - 6 pages - Journalism

The islands of Sao Tomé and Principe were colonized by the Portuguese in the 16th century and were then used as a slave trading point. Later in the 19th century they began to export cocoa. After the decolonization in 1951 the country finally came to independence in 1975. A one-party-regime was...

15 Jan 2009
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Fighting against AIDS: Acting for human rights and development

Essay - 4 pages - Journalism

If developing countries have to cope with many handicaps setbacks as well as in terms of political development, then one of the main plagues that seriously affects these countries is the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Indeed, 40 million people worldwide are infected with HIV. Among them, 95% live in...