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  1. 30 articles on the 30 Articles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

    Introductory article. Article 1: We are all born free and equal. Article 2: Freedom from Discrimination. Article 3: Right to Life. Article 4: Freedom from Slavery. Article 5: Freedom from Torture. Article 6: Right to Recognition Before the Law. Article 7: Right to Equality Before the Law. Article 8: Right to Remedy.

  2. Recent publications in international human rights law, 2021

    Recent publications in international human rights law. Stoutt PJ and Omrow DA, Spheres of Transnational Ecoviolence: Environmental Crime, Human Security, and Justice (Palgrave 2021) This book explores violence against the environment within the broad scope of transnational environmental crime (TEC): its extent, perpetrators, and responses. TEC ...

  3. The global politics of human rights: From human rights to human dignity

    Joe Renouard's Human Rights in American Foreign Policy (Renouard, 2015) is an empirically-rich, comprehensive and masterful survey of US foreign policy strategies starting from the Vietnam War period to the end of the Cold War in the early 1990s. Opposing the conventional belief that US human rights policy is built on hypocrisy, Renouard ...

  4. What Helps Protect Human Rights: Human Rights Theory and Evidence

    After defining human rights in more detail, we outline the empirical literature that supports these theoretical statements. To note, however, human rights research is not confined to IR or political science; rather, it is also examined through the fields of sociology, anthropology, economics, history, psychology, and law (Morgan, 2009).Thus, the study of human rights is an interdisciplinary ...

  5. Human rights and the COVID-19 pandemic: a retrospective and prospective

    When the history of the COVID-19 pandemic is written, the failure of many states to live up to their human rights obligations should be a central narrative. The pandemic began with Wuhan officials in China suppressing information, silencing whistleblowers, and violating the freedom of expression and the right to health. Since then, COVID-19's effects have been profoundly unequal, both ...

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    The Journal of Human Rights seeks to broaden the study of human rights by fostering the critical re-examination of existing approaches to human rights, as well as developing new perspectives on the theory and practice of human rights. The journal aims to meet a globally growing interest in the study and practice of human rights by serving as an ...

  7. The International Journal of Human Rights

    The International Journal of Human Rights covers an exceptionally broad spectrum of human rights issues: human rights and the law, race, religion, gender, children, class, refugees and immigration. In addition to these general areas, the journal publishes articles and reports on the human rights aspects of: genocide, torture, capital punishment and the laws of war and war crimes.

  8. Human Rights Law Review

    The Future of the European Court of Human Rights—Subsidiarity, Process-Based Review and the Rule of Law. Margin of Appreciation and Incrementalism in the Case Law of the European Court of Human Rights. Navigating the 'Flashing Amber Lights' of the Right to Legal Capacity in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with ...

  9. Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948): 30 Articles

    Article 30; Drafting History Research Guide . About the Exhibit. On 10 December 2023, we celebrate the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). ... Its 30 articles underpin international human rights law and provide a common global standard for human rights at the country and regional level.

  10. Historicising the Idea of Human Rights

    The idea of human rights is central to contemporary liberal politics and international relations. For many, the increasingly global prominence of this concept - which demands a universalistic suspension of any normative deference to nation, culture and context and which is at the heart of so many justifications for international economic sanctions and military interventions - represents ...

  11. Human Rights Law

    Read a chapter from The Customary International Law of Human Rights. Explore OUP's Higher Education Resource: Article 10: freedom of expression from Human Rights Law Directions (5th edn) by Howard Davis

  12. Human Rights-based Approaches and the Right to Health: A Systematic

    Human rights legal research has been criticized for lacking attention to methodology (Coomans et al. 2010). Following the typology for interdisciplinary legal research proposed by Taekema and van der Burg, this article is written from a legal doctrinal perspective, ...

  13. Latest articles from The International Journal of Human Rights

    Latest articles. 'Latest articles' are articles accepted for publication in this journal but not yet published in a volume/issue. Articles are removed from the 'Latest articles' list when they are published in a volume/issue. Latest articles are citable using the author (s), year of online publication, article title, journal and article ...

  14. A Basic Approach to Human Rights Research

    Since the 1960s and the origins of the modern human rights movement, human rights organizations have produced their own research. In-depth and well-documented reports, replete with testimonial evidence and analysis of government policy and practice, are the stock-in-trade product of human rights organizations.They serve as the basis of lobbying and campaign efforts, and they provide the ...

  15. PDF Human Rights: A Brief Introduction

    The ethical basis of human rights has been defined using concepts such as human flourishing, dignity, duties to family and society, natural rights, individual freedom, and social justice against exploitation based on sex, class or caste. All of these moral arguments for human rights are part of ethical discourse.

  16. Full article: Human Rights During the Pandemic: COVID-19 and

    ABSTRACT. This article analyses the response to the COVID-19 pandemic and its securitising effect on health and human rights globally. It asks whether measures taken to control the pandemic comply with the emergency provisions and limitations allowed under human rights treaties, and whether they will lead to more permanent securitisation of the health sector.

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    Overview. Human Rights Review is an interdisciplinary journal which provides a scholarly forum in which human rights issues and their underlying empirical, theoretical and philosophical foundations are explored. The journal seeks to place human rights practices and policies within a theoretical perspective in order to link empirical research to ...

  18. Human Rights Research and Ethics Review: Protecting Individuals or

    Background. Human rights violations play an important role as determinants of, or structural barriers to, health -.Research, investigation, and documentation focused on human rights have led to the development of rights-based interventions , and the promotion of human rights in the core strategies of international health organizations ,.. At the same time, health and human rights ...

  19. Universal Declaration of Human Rights

    A milestone document in the history of human rights, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights set out, for the first time, fundamental human rights to be universally protected. It has been ...

  20. Human Rights Studies & Research Publications

    Primary Source Archives. Gale Primary Sources contains full-text archives and collections that provide firsthand content for human rights research, including historical documents, peer-reviewed scholarly journals, periodical articles, news articles, and other publications that examine and analyze human rights studies as well as ephemera and other non-published materials that provide a ...

  21. Worker rights are one of the least protected human rights, new research

    The findings are part of a new report published by the CIRIGHTS Data Project, the largest human rights dataset in the world. Since 1981, the project has ranked countries around the world on their ...

  22. Universal Declaration of Human Rights

    4 Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Adopted and proclaimed by General Assembly resolution 217 A(III) of 10 December 1948. PREAMBLE. Whereas recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world,

  23. Lena Khor: Exploring intersection of literature, human rights

    Lena Khor, associate professor of English, has been teaching literature at Lawrence University since 2009. Her academic specialty is 20th and 21st century postcolonial and global anglophone literature. Her research areas have focused on human rights, humanitarianism, and environmentalism. Khor's book, Human Rights Discourse in a Global Network ...

  24. Inter-American Court of Human Rights enforces the Human Right to a

    The Inter-American Court of Human Rights ( IACHR) has issued a landmark decision regarding the right to a healthy environment. In the judgment published late March 2024, the Court found that Peru ...

  25. Human Rights Research and Ethics Review: Protecting Individuals or

    Background. Human rights violations play an important role as determinants of, or structural barriers to, health -.Research, investigation, and documentation focused on human rights have led to the development of rights-based interventions , and the promotion of human rights in the core strategies of international health organizations ,.. At the same time, health and human rights ...

  26. Articles On: Writers, Xinjiang, Shenzhen, Hong Kong, 709 Crackdown

    Articles Articles On: Writers, Xinjiang, Shenzhen, Hong Kong, 709 Crackdown. This section documents the myriad abuses that the Chinese Communist Party commits against its own people in violation of its commitments under the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Sunday, May 12, 2024 1 min read

  27. Full article: Human rights in mental healthcare; A review of current

    The relationship between mental health and human rights is complex and bidirectional. Global mental health movements have been emphasizing the promotion of human rights in mental health care in accordance with the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the WHO QualityRights Initiative. The main objective of this review is ...

  28. Gender Equality and Women's Rights

    The concept of "Gender Equality" is a fundamental human right. Gender equality refers to the equality of responsibilities, rights, and opportunities for every human being. Every individual of the society yearns to achieve equal status and rights in their life. Indian Constitution gives fundamental rights and basics duties to the citizens of India. Women's rights are recognized as a right ...

  29. Hiring veterans can help reduce the US labor gap

    In manufacturing, McKinsey analysis suggests that reviving the industry —in which the bulk of employees don't need four-year degrees—could boost GDP and add up to 1.5 million jobs. 5" Delivering the US manufacturing renaissance ," McKinsey, August 29, 2022. Veterans map well to these high-demand jobs.

  30. Welcome to the Purdue Online Writing Lab

    Mission. The Purdue On-Campus Writing Lab and Purdue Online Writing Lab assist clients in their development as writers—no matter what their skill level—with on-campus consultations, online participation, and community engagement. The Purdue Writing Lab serves the Purdue, West Lafayette, campus and coordinates with local literacy initiatives.