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Human rights and abortion laws

International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics, 1999
AbstractHuman rights protections have developed to resist governmental intrusion in private life and choices. Abortion laws have evolved in legal practice to protect not fetuses as such but state interests, particularly in prenatal life. National and international tribunals are increasingly called upon to resolve conflicts between state enforcement of ...
R J, Cook, B M, Dickens
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Peacebuilding, Law and Human Rights

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2012
This paper examines the relationship of law and human rights to peacebuilding, examining the complexities of the relationship between law and the meta-conflict, or conflict about what the conflict is about.
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Human rights and the rule of law

Journal of Clinical Forensic Medicine, 1999
This personal view was first delivered to the 5th Conference of the World Police Medical Officers in Clinical Forensic Medicine, in Vancouver, Canada, in August 1999 by the Right Honourable Sir Robert Carswell, Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland.
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Remoteness and human rights law

2017
The legality of remote weapons systems, such as drones and autonomous weapons, is usually discussed through the lens of international humanitarian law. The ability of such remote weapons systems to respect the conduct of hostilities principles of distinction, proportionality and precautions as well as the risk that the use of remote warfare might lead ...
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The ‘Human’ in Human Rights and the Law

2019
Abstract Chapter 9 examines what differing conceptions of ‘the human good’ underpinning pre-legal rights imply for such rights’ relation to positive law. Three models are compared: a varied, specific model on which each party’s good might be different from anyone else’s, a shared specific model on which certain things (e.g.
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The law of Human Rights

2003
Abstract This second supplement to the highly-acclaimed The Law of Human Rights, published in October 2000, brings the work fully up to date to July 2002. It includes all the relevant case-law as the Human Rights Act continues to be tested out in the courts and is an essential purchase for those who have already bought the Main Work ...
Richard Clayton, Hugh Tomlinson
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International humanitarian law and human rights law

2013
The nature of the relationship between international humanitarian law and international human rights law remains a vexed one. In recent years, human rights lawyers and activists have sought to apply human rights norms to military conduct in international and internal conflicts, and during belligerent occupations.
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Human Rights Law

2018
This chapter focuses on legal protections for human rights in Indonesia, many of which developed after the fall of Soeharto in response to abuses committed during his rule. It begins with an account of international human rights instruments ratified in Indonesia, before providing an overview of domestic Indonesian regulation, and national human rights ...
Simon Butt, Tim Lindsey
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Geneva Declaration on Human Rights at Sea: An Endeavor to Connect Law of the Sea and International Human Rights Law

Ocean Development and International Law, 2022
Natalie Klein
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Human Rights and Law

2011
Human Rights and Law: Bonded Labour in India deals with the problem of debt bondage and the way it has been treated during the British as well as in the post-independence period. Analysis has been made of the motivations for carrying out the reform; the processes involved in formulating the legislation, contributions by different agencies, discussion ...
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