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A Relational Perspective on Land in Armed Conflict: Analysing the Village Guard Mobilisation in Turkey

open access: yesStudies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the Turkish state's Village Guard system, revived in the 1980s as part of its counterinsurgency strategy against the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK). While often framed as a defensive militia, the Village Guards became central to the state's exceptional governance in Kurdistan, both facilitating military control and ...
Francis O'Connor   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Protection of Socio-Economic Rights through the Canon of Civil and Political Rights: A Comparative Perspective

open access: yesGroningen Journal of International Law, 2017
Socio-economic rights have been largely neglected in international human rights law. Misconceptions about the nature of these rights have resulted in their marginalisation and their relegation to second-class rights.
Aristi Volou
doaj   +1 more source

RIGHT TO THE CAMPSITE: How Dutch Caravan Dwellers Continue their Struggle for Inclusion

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Volume 50, Issue 2, Page 466-485, March 2026.
Abstract Over the past decade, a growing housing and urban studies literature has engaged with the Lefebvrian concept of the ‘right to the city’. Central to this are rights, laws and grassroots demands. Emerging literature has also focused on the practical side of the right to the city as a set of actions to undo exclusion and dispossession.
Dominic Teodorescu
wiley   +1 more source

Enduring Crises of the Nation‐State: How Spatial Imaginations Reshape Identity and Dis/Unity

open access: yesGeography Compass, Volume 20, Issue 3, March 2026.
ABSTRACT This article reframes the contemporary “crisis” of the nation‐state not as a simple erosion of sovereignty but as a problem of spatial misalignment: adaptive states remain strategically embedded in dense transnational regimes, yet domestic legitimacy falters when unitary national imaginaries confront heterogeneous, multi‐sited social realities.
Erdem Bekaroğlu, Suat Yazan
wiley   +1 more source

RUSSIA'S EXCLUSION FROM THE REGIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS MECHANISM OR HOW HUMAN RIGHTS ARE ENDANGERED IN A SENSITIVE INTERNATIONAL CONTEXT?! [PDF]

open access: yesChallenges of the Knowledge Society, 2023
The Russian Federation and the ECtHR have never had a very „friendly” relationship; on the contrary, in some periods the relationship between them has even been tense.
Corneliu BÎRSAN   +1 more
doaj  

The Right to Life in the 'Mothers of Srebrenica' Case: Reversing the Positive Obligation to Protect from the Duty of Means to that of a Result

open access: yesUtrecht Journal of International and European Law, 2021
In July 1995, Bosnian Serbs killed between 7,000 and 8,000 Bosniac1 males in a matter of days. This took place in and around the region of Srebrenica, which ironically was designated a ‘safe area’ by the United Nations (‘UN’).
Kushtrim Istrefi
doaj   +1 more source

His Majesty's Inspectorate of Prisons for England and Wales, the UK National Preventive Mechanism and the UN Optional Protocol for the Prevention of Torture. Prospects for Prison Reform and the Treatment of Prisoners

open access: yesThe Howard Journal of Crime and Justice, Volume 65, Issue 1, Page 42-51, March 2026.
ABSTRACT HM Chief Inspector of Prisons for England and Wales is mandated under domestic law to visit and report on prison conditions and the treatment of prisoners. The Inspectorate's detailed monitoring work provides valuable and authoritative insights into individual prison establishments as well as the overall conditions in prisons and the treatment
Isobel Renzulli
wiley   +1 more source

Avrupa İnsan Hakları Mahkemesi'nde İklim Değişikliği Davaları

open access: yesAnkara Hacı Bayram Veli Üniversitesi Hukuk Fakültesi Dergisi
İklim değişikliğinin olumsuz etkilerinden dolayı hak temelli iklim davaları hem ulusal hem de uluslararası mahkemeler aracılığıyla açılmıştır. Avrupa İnsan Hakları Mahkemesi 9 Nisan 2024’te vermiş olduğu üç kararla ilk kez iklim değişikliğine ilişkin ...
Seher Çakan
doaj   +1 more source

Do Human Rights Work? Evidence From Prison Death Investigations in Scotland

open access: yesThe Howard Journal of Crime and Justice, Volume 65, Issue 1, Page 64-76, March 2026.
ABSTRACT It seems self‐evident that countries which have embraced human rights would have better human rights compliance. This article examines this assumption in prison death investigations in Scotland (called fatal accident inquiries or FAIs). The right to life (Article 2 ECHR) includes a procedural right to an effective investigation of deaths ...
Sarah Armstrong   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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