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The Impact of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights on Brazilian Law

Revista Electrónica Iberoamericana
This article examines the impact of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights on Brazilian law through a combined approach integrating doctrinal analysis, jurisprudential examination, and empirical investigation.
Wagner Menezes
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A Positivist Approach to Human Rights: An Ex Post Explanation of Violations

Ratio 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
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UN International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), 16 December 1966 [PDF]

UN International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), 16 December ...

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The 1951 Refugee Convention’s Contingent Rights Framework and Article 26 of the ICCPR: A Fundamental Incompatibility?

Refuge, 2014
This article addresses the relationship between two primary structural features of the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees—that many benefits under it accrue on the basis of a refugee’s degree of attachment to his or her host state and ...
Marina Sharpe
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Agreements to waive paternity

Family 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
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STUDI KOMPARATIF EUTHANASIA DI BELANDA DAN AMERIKA SERIKAT MENURUT PASAL 6 AYAT (1) INTERNATIONAL COVENANT ON CIVIL AND POLITICAL RIGHTS (ICCPR) DALAM PERSPEKTIF CULTURAL RELATIVISM [PDF]

, 2014
Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mendeskripsikan legalitas penerapan euthanasia dalam hukum nasional di Belanda dan Amerika Serikat yang menurut Pasal 6 ayat (1) International Covenant On Civil And Political Rights (ICCPR) hak hidup harus dilindungi oleh ...
HANDAYANI,, ANISA PUTRI
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Human rights treaty derogation and COVID-19: WHO guidance and state response

Global 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
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Advancing Problem Framing in the Multiple Streams Framework: A Refined Model of the Problem Stream and Its Key Settings

Politics &Policy, Volume 53, Issue 5, October 2025.
ABSTRACT In response to calls to extend the theoretical development of the multiple streams framework (MSF), this article proposes the integration of a refined problem framing process model and its key settings into the MSF. Despite its popularity in recent decades, the MSF has not systematically addressed the role of contextual factors in the problem ...
Wenjin Chen, Naubahar Sharif, Xinyi Wang
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EXTRA-TERRITORIAL TORTURE AND INHUMAN TREATMENT TOWARDS SUSPECTED TERRORISTS COMMITTED BY THE U.K. AND THE U.S. MILITARY ACTIONS

Jurnal Hukum Internasional, 2014
Since the attack to the World Trade Centre in 11 September 2001, the world has raised their awareness to any of serious allegation of terrorist activities. Many steps have been taken by the United Nations and the states to make such legislatives in their
Mahfud Mahfud
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Decolonizing the Global: Contested Cosmopolitanisms in Global Queer Activism

The British Journal of Sociology, Volume 76, Issue 4, Page 790-799, September 2025.
ABSTRACT In the last decade, the “decolonial turn” has gained prominence across academic disciplines, challenging inherent Eurocentric knowledge paradigms. Extending these conversations, this paper critically investigates the notion of “the global” from a decolonial perspective.
Minwoo Jung
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