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The United States and Human Rights Treaties: Race Relations, the Cold War, and Constitutionalism [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
The United States prides itself on being a champion of human rights and pressures other countries to improve their human rights practices, and yet appears less willing than other nations to embrace international human rights treaties.
Bradley, Curtis A.
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The Freedom to Manifest Religious Belief: An Analysis of the Necessity Clauses of the ICCPR and the ECHR [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
This paper examines Article 18 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and Article 9 of the European Convention on Human Rights. Both documents affirm freedom of religion as a fundamental human right, yet both recognize the need for ...
Parker, M. Todd
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Wildlife Law Enforcement's Use of “the Money Shot”: Creating a Visual Fallacy and Generating Wider Legal and Forensic Implications

open access: yesWIREs Forensic Science, Volume 7, Issue 4, December 2025.
Suspected poachers and traffickers are frequently photographed holding or in close proximity to alleged evidence that is recovered at the time of their apprehension. These images are subsequently published online through various platforms prior to trial or conviction. Reproduced with permission, 2023, Simon Dures, all rights reserved.
Grant S. Thomson, Rob Ogden
wiley   +1 more source

Can human rights law bend mass surveillance?

open access: yesInternet Policy Review, 2014
There is an increasing gap between the right to privacy and contemporary surveillance schemes. As a concrete example, the US surveillance operation PRISM and its impact on European citizens’ right to privacy is discussed.
Rikke Frank Joergensen
doaj   +1 more source

Enforcing the rights and freedoms of disabled people: the role of transnational law (Part I) [PDF]

open access: yes, 1998
In Part I of this article we examined the actual and potential application of global international law (GIL) to the development of rights and freedoms for people with disabilities.
Cooper, J., Whittle, R.
core   +1 more source

A Positivist Approach to Human Rights: An Ex Post Explanation of Violations

open access: yesRatio Juris, Volume 38, Issue 3, Page 273-285, November 2025.
Abstract This article defends a positivist view of human rights while highlighting the limitations of the naturalistic view in the context of human rights violations: the naturalist’s nontemporal, categorical conception of rights oversimplifies ex post moral reflection; its notion of unenforceable rights fails to address moral life after violations ...
Kumie Hattori
wiley   +1 more source

Editorial: Merawat Hak Asasi Manusia

open access: yesPadjadjaran: Jurnal Ilmu Hukum, 2016
Kita semua mahfum, sejarah hak asasi manusia (HAM), terutama kemunculan instrumen-instrumen HAM selalu dilatarbelakangi oleh kulminasi berbagai pelanggaran HAM. Absolutisme monarki Inggris di masa lalu berangsur-angsur melahirkan satu demi satu instrumen
Atip Latipulhayat
doaj   +1 more source

The Shackling of Incarcerated Pregnant Women: A Human Rights Violation Committed Regularly in the United States [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
The international human rights community has repeatedly expressed concern about the shackling of pregnant women deprived of their liberty in the United States.
Aaron Lee   +3 more
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Agreements to waive paternity

open access: yesFamily Court Review, Volume 63, Issue 4, Page 766-787, October 2025.
Abstract This article examines the legal and ethical status of agreements to waive paternity in cases of unintended pregnancies and contrasts them with legal regimes governing anonymous and known sperm donations. Although these scenarios often result in the same functional outcome—severance of the biological father's legal relationship with the child ...
Shahar Lifshitz
wiley   +1 more source

Human rights treaty derogation and COVID-19: WHO guidance and state response

open access: yesGlobal Constitutionalism
What explains when states derogate from international human rights law during the COVID-19 pandemic? Conventional understanding of treaty derogations suggests that domestic democratic structures, not the crisis at hand, explain derogation submissions.
Audrey L. Comstock
doaj   +1 more source

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