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The extraterritorial human rights obligations of Japan in regard to Fukushima nuclear contaminated water

open access: yesFrontiers in Marine Science, 2023
This article adopts a human rights approach to observe Japan’s policy on releasing nuclear contaminated water into the Pacific Ocean. It aims to provide a new discourse for stakeholders to push Japan to deal with Fukushima’s water in a responsible way ...
Liang Yu, Weizhuo Xu
exaly   +3 more sources

Extraterritorial obligations and the obligation to protect [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Since the late 1970s, what we today label ‘globalisation’ has altered many aspects of international law, not least international human rights law. This has been reflected inter alia in increased calls for universal respect for human rights beyond a state’
Skogly, Sigrun Ingvild
core   +2 more sources

Extraterritorial obligations in the European human rights system

open access: yes, 2021
The conduct of state authorities may affect the human rights of individuals located outside their territory. In Europe the scope of extraterritorial obligations is closely tied to the jurisdiction clause in the European Convention on Human Rights. States will be internationally responsible for not only human rights violations attributed to them within ...
Haeck, Yves   +2 more
exaly   +4 more sources

The Impact of Extraterritorial and Secondary Sanctions on Contractual Obligations

open access: yes
This chapter delves into the question of the impact of extraterritorial and secondary sanctions on private contractual relations. It opens with a discussion of the characterisation of extraterritorial and secondary sanctions as potential legal or factual impediments to the performance of contractual obligations.
Cedric Ryngaert
exaly   +2 more sources

Digitalization: The new extraterritorial challenge to extraterritorial obligations [PDF]

open access: yes, 2021
More than ever, digitalization is all around us. For years, carried away by the fascination with digital gadgets and technologies, we have been allured to blindly enter a world of sophisticated machines without taking into consideration where this journey would take us and how it would revolutionize our existence – to the extent of taking over our ...
Dentico, Nicoletta   +2 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Extraterritorial Applicability of International Obligations of States in the Field of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights [PDF]

open access: yesFaṣlnāmah-i Pizhūhish-i Huqūq-i ̒Umūmī, 2017
International Covenant of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights draws the content of international obligations of states parties to the Covenant in article 2.
ehsan javid, Saber Niavarani
doaj   +1 more source

Basis of International Human Rights Commitment in US unilateral sanctions against Iran [PDF]

open access: yesحقوق بشر, 2022
Unilateral US sanctions against Iran aimed at changing the behavior or change of the political system of the Islamic Republic of Iran have directly and indirectly led to the violation of Iranian human rights, and in particular to the challenge of ...
Amir Maghami
doaj   +1 more source

The Sharing of Abhorrent Violent Materials Act: The realities and implications of Australia’s new laws regulating social media companies

open access: yesBond Law Review, 2021
On 15 March 2019, a Facebook Live video was broadcast from Christchurch, New Zealand, documenting a terror attack which resulted in the death of fifty-one people.
Jasmine Valcic
doaj   +1 more source

The Legal Liability of Transnational Corporations: Between Extraterritorial Obligations of States and Universal Justice

open access: yesRevista Internacional de Derechos Humanos, 2021
The paper focuses on the possibilities of accountability of transnational companies, which operate in a “value chain” in different States and jurisdictions around the world.
Jânia Maria Lopes Saldanha   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

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