International human rights law

nongovernmental agencies abroad which receive U.S. funding from promoting abortion or discussing it as an option in family planning. The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) is already prohibited from providing U.S. funds to provide abortions in any country. However, this policy would freeze U.S. funding from the organizations that advocate for abortion rights or promote it as a family planning option, even if those organizations do not use US funds for those specific purposes.…

Written in 1795, Immanuel Kant’s essay ‘Toward a Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Sketch’ is a key text in discussions surrounding war, peace, and cosmopolitan ideals. Kant’s ideas of constitution, federation of free states and the cosmopolitan rights of individuals have formed the building blocks of many strategies for peace enacted since then, although his advice is occasionally ignored to this day. Scholars have interpreted Kant’s work in many ways, with some ideas being labeled as liberal,…

According to Ariany (2013, p.537-538), CEDAW is the least respected human rights treaty, since many states parties made their reservations to CEDAW. Bangladesh, Egypt, Iraq, the Kingdom of Bahrain, Kuwait, Libya, Malaysia, Maldives, Morocco and Oman made reservations to CEDAW, due to its contrary to Shari’a. While Algeria, Indonesia, Jordan, Pakistan, Turkey and Yemen made reservations to CEDAW due to religious justifications. And the most reserved article is Article 16 on marriage and family…

Law, for me, is something that fascinates my inquiry mind and curiosity, is absolute and controversial, is precise and abstract, can be cruel or decent and always brings about significant influences on people’s lives as being a system of regulating individuals in a state. My initial interest in law stemmed while I was thinking what liberty and equality are, and how and to what extent we could or should guarantee those conceptual entities for individuals as inalienable rights of all human beings…

Whether or not Australia should adopt a bill of rights that protects individual rights from infringement by the legislature or executive, has been a subject of debate over the past few decades, specifically as Australia remains the last Western democracy without a bill of rights (Galligan, 1990: 345). On the International level, Australia has ratified seven major human rights treaties, however these treaties cannot enforce their obligations on domestic law, as can be seen in the parliaments…

to his advantage. He had the government create extreme propaganda for its people, and made sure to create scary news articles for foreign nations to view. The North Korean government used scare tactics to gain strength and position within the international community. At the time they were a fairly new country, and wanted to be treated as a sovereign nation by other powers. But in order to ensure that nobody rebelled and revolted, they strictly regulated the news and the…

The most characteristic form of citizenship in modern democracies until the present has been a single and exclusive citizenship within the nation-state. However, while state-building and nation-building went hand in hand in the past, there are obvious problems and challenges in drawing too tight a connection between citizenship and the nation-state because it is estimated that there are between 5000 and 9000 ethnic-cultural groups in the world, and only around 200 states, over 90% of which…

Introduction The values of democracy, society, respect for human rights, and equality have become recognized everywhere as universal values. To my own point of view, there 's assistant degree close association between democratic values and also the elementary values of human goodness. Wherever if there is democracy there 's a larger chance for the voters of the country to specify their basic human qualities, and wherever these basic human qualities prevail, there 's conjointly a larger scope for…

intervention when there are large scale violations of human rights within a set of boundaries. In regards to NATOs intervention in Kosovo, the first and third revision apply and the armed conflict can thus be assessed with such principles in…

requirements (two-tiered test). 2.1 Exceptions • Article XX(a) Paragraph (a) of Article XX aims to (1) protect public morals and the chosen measure must be (2) necessary to accomplish this objective. The concept of ‘public morals’ refers to ‘standards of right and wrong conduct maintained by or on behalf of a community or nation’ and ‘can vary in time and space’ , depending on ‘social, cultural, ethical and religious values’ . In the European Community (EC)-Seal Products , the Appellate Body…