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National Security and Human Rights in International Law

open access: yesGroningen Journal of International Law, 2020
The post war-on-terror era has witnessed several developments in international law, including the nature and function of national security. This article establishes a link between national security and human rights by looking at some practical ...
P. Sean Morris
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Implications of Customary Land Rights Inequalities for Food Security: A Study of Smallholder Farmers in Northwest Ghana

open access: yesLand, 2020
Inequalities in land rights exist globally, both in formal and customary settings. This is because land rights are either strong or weak, and held by various categories of people.
Baslyd B. Nara   +2 more
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Human Security: Undermining Human Rights? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
This article warns that the human security discourse and agenda could inadvertently undermine the international human rights regime. Insofar as human security identifies new threats to well-being, new victims of those threats, new duties of states, or ...
Howard-Hassmann, Rhoda E.
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Human Rights, Human Security and Political Theologies [PDF]

open access: yesحقوق بشر, 2017
Human rights, particularly in the form of international human rights law, intersect with religion and peace at foundational levels, as symbolically highlighted by the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR).
Alejandro Lorite Escorihuela
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Escaping Hobbes: liberty and security for our democratic (not anti-terrorist) age [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
The terms 'liberty' and 'security' are analysed against a background of contemporary concerns about terrorism and the decline of freedom. The influence of Hobbes’s approach to liberty has been pervasive, and the effect of this has been to promote an ...
Gearty, Conor
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Transformation of Local People’s Property Rights Induced by New Town Development (Case Studies in Peri-Urban Areas in Indonesia)

open access: yesLand, 2020
New town development as a form of large-scale development is not a new phenomenon, particularly in developing countries. This development mainly takes place in peri-urban areas due to the high pressure caused by the growing population and the lack of ...
Rahmat Aris Pratomo   +2 more
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SDGs and Human Rights: how to measure States’ compliance? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
In September 2015 UN General Assembly approved the SDGs and all over the world the expectations focused on the new UN Development Agenda. Apparently, issues concerning Human Rights and Human security, including absence of violence, promotion of ...
TASCIONI, GAIA
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Private Security Companies in Ethiopia: An Insight from a Rights Perspective

open access: yesMizan Law Review, 2023
In Ethiopia, the private security services sector has grown considerably over the previous three decades. Although the sector has a positive role in the protection of persons, property and institutions, there are concerns, inter alia, regarding the ...
Abera Tsegaye Eshete
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Women’s Access to Land and Security of Tenure post 2013 Constitution in Zimbabwe

open access: yesAfrican Journal on Land Policy and Geospatial Sciences, 2020
Rural women’s livelihoods in Africa are dependent on their rights and entitlement to land as well as security of tenure. Equally important is how land laws and land governance systems shape and reshape women’s access to land and tenure security. As such,
Sandra Bhatasara
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Human Security as a policy framework: Critics and Challenges

open access: yesDeusto Journal of Human Rights, 2017
Starting with the emergence of a human centered approach to security from the intersection of trends in security, development and human rights, this paper analyses the human security framework proposed by the Commission on Human Security (CHS), and tries
Cristina Churruca Muguruza
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