Category Archives: Miscellaneous
Distrust Festers Between U.S. Muslims, Intel Agencies
Inter Press Service News AgencyMonday, March 14, 2005 22:42 GMT Distrust Festers Between U.S. Muslims, Intel AgenciesWilliam Fisher NEW YORK, Mar 10, 2005 (IPS) – An institutional climate of “Islamophobia” and wariness among many U.S. Arabs and Muslims of the … Read more . . .
Human rights protection in a globalized economy
Human rights protection in a globalized economy Elias Davidsson January, 2005 The Problem While traditional human rights, including economic and social rights, relate individuals to their respective governments (or states) by means of listing rights and obligations, individual (and collective) … Read more . . .
Ethical Aspects of Sanctions in International Law
Summary: Sanctions Viewed in the Light of General Ethical Principles; Sanctions Policy within the Normative System of Modern International Law; Concerning the Compatibility of Sanctions with Human Rights as the jus cogens of General International Law; Sanctions Policy with Regard to International Conventions, Sanctions Policy and International Humanitarian Law; Concerning Collective and Individual Legal Responsibility in Current International Law; Consequences from the Perspective of Legal Philosophy: Chances for the Further Humanitarian Development of International Law?
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Regional Human Rights Courts
European Court of Human Rights Basic Texts Judgements and Decisions HUDOC [Data base on the judgements and decisions of the ECHR] Inter-American Court of Human Rights African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights … Read more . . .
Major intergovernmental organisations
United Nations Other institutions The General Assembly The Security Council UN Web Locator UN Document Search FAO/WFP ICAO ICJ ICTR ICTY ILO ITU UNESCO UNDP UNICEF … Read more . . .
Selected treaties
Charter of the United Nations Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties Statute of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) World Trade Organization (legal documents) Constitution of the World Health Organization The Avalon Project at Yale Law School, Documents in … Read more . . .
Elias Davidsson, Webmaster
Elias Davidsson was born in Palestine in 1941. His parents were born in Germany but had to emigrate to Palestine due to the Nazi persecution of Jews. Elias lived his first years Baq’aa, a neighborhood of Jerusalem, where Jews, Christians … Read more . . .
Theory of human rights
The following subcategories are discussed within "theory of human rights": Human rights as natural rights Human rights as non-reciprocal rights Primary and derivative rights Individual and collective rights Rights and obligations The obligations to respect, protect and secure Immediate and … Read more . . .