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A Reputation of Non-Ratification: United States’ Ratification of the ICCPR

open access: yes, 2018
The history of the United States’ involvement in international reveals a disproportionate timeline between signing and ratification. Notably, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), one of the binding twin covenants enacting the
Russell, Emily
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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

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

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

open access: yesPolitics &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
wiley   +1 more source

Decolonizing the Global: Contested Cosmopolitanisms in Global Queer Activism

open access: yesThe 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
wiley   +1 more source

Contradictions in Gender Inclusivity and Discrimination: Experiencing the Paradoxical Workplace in the Philippines

open access: yesSexuality, Gender &Policy, Volume 8, Issue 3, August 2025.
ABSTRACT This paper examines the experiences and circumstances of queer employees in the Philippine labor market. Drawing from focus group discussions among self‐identified LGBTQI+ Filipino workers in various formal sectors and key informant interviews with experts on gender inclusion and labor policies, this study finds that formal policies may ...
Athena Charanne Presto
wiley   +1 more source

No Exit: Preventing Exit to Prevent Entry

open access: yesInternational Migration, Volume 63, Issue 4, August 2025.
ABSTRACT Enlisting states of origin or transit to prevent exit from their own territory has become a tool of extraterritorial migration control for industrialised liberal democratic states. This article first explores the practical erosion of the right to leave any country since the demise of communism, focusing on arrangements between EU member states
Audrey Macklin
wiley   +1 more source

Social service inclusion of immigrants through the lens of human rights in Australia

open access: yesDevelopment Policy Review, Volume 43, Issue 4, July 2025.
Abstract Motivation A human‐centred approach to social service design is necessary to encourage social service inclusion and to offer an avenue for social service action in Australia and globally. Purpose The purpose of this article is to ascertain the extent to which social service providers design their services to include immigrants.
Obed Adonteng‐Kissi   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Succession by Estoppel: Hong Kong\u27s Succession to the ICCPR

open access: yes, 1999
This Article argues that Hong Kong succeeded to the ICCPR and the reporting obligations under the Covenant. Part I of the Article traces the development of the ICCPR in Hong Kong before 1997.
Yu, Peter K.
core   +1 more source

The Implementation of Non-Derogable rights under the ICCPR in the context of the defined role of the Treaty bodies

open access: yes, 2022
In the context of ICCPR, the doctrine of the non-derogable rights is very significant in its nature keeping in view the concept of the civil and political rights. Further these tights are still available even during the time of public emergency which may
Baig, Khurram   +2 more
core   +2 more sources

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