Author: United Nations. General AssemblyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Executions and executioners
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
Report of the Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Summary Or Arbitrary Executions on His Mission to Honduras
Author: United Nations. General AssemblyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Executions and executioners
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
Natural Resources and Human Rights
Author: Jérémie GilbertPublisher:
ISBN: 0198795661
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
Examining the role human rights can play in the regulation of natural resource management, this book shines light on the duties of states and private actors when exploiting natural resources and the procedural rights of affected citizens.
Extracting Honduras
Author: James J. PhillipsPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1793630348
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
With a focus on Honduras, James J. Phillips explores the deeper causes of the massive emigration of Central Americans to the United States. Going beyond the frequently given reasons for migration, Phillips provides a detailed account of how the frenzied extraction of natural resources has created massive community displacement, dependency, poverty, and vulnerability, while encouraging corruption, violence, gang recruitment, drug trafficking, militarization of Honduran society, and systematic repression of popular protest and resistance. Highlighting how this situation is tied to the colonial (or imperial) extractive relationship of Honduras to the United States, Phillips contends that the usual policy of development aid and investment to stem migration will only worsen the conditions that create migration. With this book, Phillips depicts how the Central American immigration “crisis” shapes life in the United States and Honduras, while making clear that the effects are not what populist politics imagine.
Inter-American Yearbook on Human Rights / Anuario Interamericano de Derechos Humanos, Volume 37 (2021) (VOLUME II)
Author: Inter-American Commission on Human RightsPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004511881
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1059
Book Description
The 2021 Inter-American Yearbook on Human Rights provides an extract of the principal jurisprudence of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. Part One contains the Decisions on the Merits of the Commission, and Part Two the Judgments and Decisions of the Court. The Yearbook is partly published as an English-Spanish bilingual edition. Some parts are in English or Spanish only. NB: This book is part of a four volume set. Vol. 1 ISBN: 978-90-04-51185-9 Vol. 2 ISBN: 978-90-04-51187-3 Vol. 3 ISBN: 978-90-04-53773-6 Vol. 4 ISBN: 978-90-04-53775-0
Report of the Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Summary Or Arbitrary Executions on the Right to Life and the Use of Force by Private Security Providers in Law Enforcement Contexts
Author: United Nations. General AssemblyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Executions and executioners
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
"Not Worth a Penny"
Author: Juliana Cano NietoPublisher: Human Rights Watch
ISBN: 1564324869
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 51
Book Description
Background -- Police, abuse and violence -- Failures to protect and investigate -- Specific recommendations.
Alston and Heyns on Unlawful Killings: A Compendium of the Jurisprudence of the United Nations Special Rapporteurs on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions from 2004-2016
Author: Philip AlstonPublisher: Pretoria University Law Press
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 736
Book Description
This book provides a detailed overview of the law and policy related to unlawful killings and the right to life. It is organized into the key thematic issues and types of killings that arose during the mandate of the UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions between 2004-2016. Each chapter contains an introductory overview and selected extracts from UN Special Rapporteur reports to the United Nations General Assembly and the Human Rights Council and other normative work, and covers the applicable international law, policy considerations, and common fact scenarios. Philip Alston held the mandate of United Nations Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions between 2004 and 2010; Christof Heyns did so from 2010 to 2016. This book was created to provide easy access to the work of the Special Rapporteurs, and to be a useful guide for those studying and working to promote respect for human rights. The book was edited by the two rapporteurs, together with their main advisors during their tenure as mandate holders, Sarah Knuckey and Thomas Probert.
Report of the Human Rights Council on Its Eleventh Session
Author: United Nations. General AssemblyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Human rights
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Media, Central American Refugees, and the U.S. Border Crisis
Author: Robin AndersenPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 042957651X
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 111
Book Description
This book identifies the history, conventions, and uses of security discourses, and argues that such language and media frames distort information and mislead the public, misidentify the focus of concern, and omit narratives able to recognize the causes and solutions to humanitarian crises. What has been identified as a crisis at the border is better understood as an on-going crisis of violence, building over decades, that has forced migrants from their homes in the countries of the Northern Triangle. Authors Robin Andersen and Adrian Bergmann look back to U.S. military policies in the region and connect this legacy to the cross-border development of transnational gangs, government corruption, and on-going violence that often targets environmental and legal defenders. They argue that the discourses of demonization and securitization only help perpetuate brutality in both Central America and the United States, especially in the desert borderlands of the southwest. They offer ways in which stories of migrants can be reframed within the language of justice, empathy, and humanitarianism. A compelling examination of language, media, and politics, this book is both highly contemporary and widely applicable, perfect for students and scholars of global media, political communications, and their many intersections.
Human Rights and Personal Self-defense in International Law
Author: Jan Arno HessbrueggePublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019065502X
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
While an abundance of literature covers the right of states to defend themselves against external aggression, this is the first book dedicated to the right to personal self-defense in international law. Dr. Hessbruegge sets out in careful detail the strict requirements that human rights impose on defensive force by law enforcement authorities, especially police killings in self-defense. The book also discusses the exceptional application of the right to personal self-defense in military-led operations, notably to contain violent civilians who do not directly participate in hostilities. The author establishes that international law gives individuals the right to forcibly resist human rights violations that pose a serious risk of significant and irreparable harm. At the same time, he calls into question prevailing state practice, which fails to recognize any collective right to organized armed resistance even when it constitutes the last resort to defend against genocide or other mass atrocities.