Essays about: "Inter-American Court of human Rights"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 17 essays containing the words Inter-American Court of human Rights.

1. 6. Unfolding Slavery: a comparative analysis of definitions and positive obligations in the IACtHR case of Hacienda Brasil Verde Worker v. Brazil and the ECtHR case law on slavery and forced labour

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen; Lunds universitet/Juridiska fakulteten

   Author : Flávia Cieplinski; [2018]
   Keywords : International Human Rights Law; Inter-American Court of Human Rights; Slavery; Servitude; Forced Labour; Trafficking in Persons; Positive Obligations.; Law and Political Science;

   Abstract : In October 2016, the IACtHR issued the judgment of the case of Hacienda Brasil Verde Workers v Brazil. The case concerns the subjection of 85 workers to slavery-like conditions in a private-owned livestock farm located in the north of Brazil. Brasil Verde Workers v. READ MORE

3. 7. Unaccompanied Children’s Right to Legal Assistance in Asylum Proceedings. An overview of the universal and regional systems of human rights protection in Europe and the Americas.

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen; Lunds universitet/Juridiska fakulteten

   Author : Marina Vannelli; [2017]
   Keywords : asylum-seeking child; Unaccompanied children; procedural guarantees; legal representation; asylum procedures; best interest principle; human rights.; Law and Political Science;

   Abstract : The situation of unaccompanied asylum-seeking children is nowadays a global issue affecting an important number of children all over the world. Nevertheless, the special needs and vulnerabilities of this group of children have not yet been effectively assessed. READ MORE

4. 8. Beyond the Right to Life: The Right to Live in Dignity in the European Convention on Human Rights

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen

   Author : Katerina Hnitidou; [2016]
   Keywords : Law and Political Science;

   Abstract : The right to life includes a right to live in dignity, a right to a dignified existence under the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, that requires the realisation of certain socio-economic and cultural rights. The European Court of Human Rights however, does not employ the same approach. READ MORE

5. 9. Competing Standards on the Definition of Enforced Disappearance - A victims-oriented perspective for national implementation

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen

   Author : Sebnem Erener; [2016]
   Keywords : international human rights law; international criminal law; international humanitarian law; icc; enforced disappearance; committee on enforced disappearance; torture; conflict; complementarity; victims-oriented perspectives; victims; justice; redress; reparation; right to justice; right to truth; al-Senussi; international criminal code; inter-american court of human rights; latin america; crimes against humanity; intention; special intention; elements of crime; International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance; the Rome Statute; Basic Principles and Guidelines; People s Convention; due process; unwilling; unable; criminal law; substantive law; procedural law; Law and Political Science;

   Abstract : There are competing standards regarding the definition of the crime of “enforced disappearance” under international law. When criminalizing enforced disappearance at the national level as part of their obligations under international law, States which adopt a more narrow definition of enforced disappearance provided in the Rome Statute require victims of enforced disappearance to prove the existence of an additional “special intention” of perpetrators. READ MORE

6. 10. Support and protection for Human Rights Defenders : To what extent can the international instruments and their corresponding mechanisms provide support and protection for HRDs, especially those that are submitted to criminal prosecution within the national legal systems?

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Teologiska institutionen

   Author : Virginia Matamoros Alas; [2016]
   Keywords : Human Rights Defenders; Guatemala; Support; Protection;

   Abstract : This study has aimed at examining the nature and function of the support and protection that is offered and provided to human rights defenders trough a selected few international as well as regional human rights instruments and mechanisms, among them the Declaration on Human Rights Defenders, the EU Guidelines on Human Rights Defenders as well as the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and the Inter-American Court on Human Rights. In order to conduct such a study in a fairly limited and concrete way a number of cases were selected of human rights defenders who have undergone or are currently undergoing criminal prosecution and are incarcerated in Guatemala. READ MORE