Essays about: "human rights defenders"

Showing result 16 - 17 of 17 essays containing the words human rights defenders.

1. 16. Flexible Foreseeability: A Human Rights Rule of Law Perspective on Interferences with the Right to Peaceful Protest through Vague Law

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen

   Author : Pernilla Nordvall; [2016]
   Keywords : public international law; human rights law; rule of law; vague law; foreseeability; quality of law; legality; peaceful protest; human rights defender; de facto criminalisation; interferences; Law and Political Science;

   Abstract : Protesting against human rights violations is dangerous. Worldwide, human rights defenders are subject to violations ranging from harassment to murder. One way in which human rights defenders are silenced is through the misuse of the national judicial system where it is employed to punish human rights defenders for their work. READ MORE

3. 17. 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