International human rights law

Human Rights and Gender Violence: Translating International Law into Local Justice by Sally Eagle Merry observes and scrutinizes the burden between global law and local injustices. She argues that human rights law must be embedded in a local society in order to be recognized as influential social constructs. She then specifically speaks of gender violence and how this injustice is ingrained through cultural and religious traditions, and transformations are usually resisted within a culture through

Declaration of Human Rights was proclaimed on 10 December 1948, but it still did not include the rights of persons with disabilities. In other words, in many countries, people with disability did not have their rights guaranteed by law. So, soon organizations began to emerge to fight, represent and guarantee the rights of all people with disabilities. Today there are hundreds of them representing all types of disabilities, for example Autistic Minority International and The Center for the Human Rights of Users

I. Background to International Investment Protection During industrialisation, Western European Countries and United States, which has huge capital surplus, started investing massively in less developed countries in the form of Foreign Direct Investment. There was obviously an imbalance of power between the investing countries and the host countries at that time. The investing countries expected that their investment and property be protected and in case they suffered any injury or incurred any

the promotion of economic growth as a constructive consequence of their operations; while on the negative side, he accuses MNCs, particularly those in the extractive industries of colluding with the governments of their host countries, to inflict human rights abuses, damage the environment and consequently, destroying the way of life of local communities . The Niger Delta region of Nigeria, with a land mass of 17,900 square meters, comprises of Akwa-Ibom, Bayelsa, Cross-River, Edo, Rivers and Ondo

Human Rights The basic tenet of Human Rights is the understanding that all humans share universal aspirations and have inherent rights to security, dignity, freedom of expression, equality and economic, social and cultural protection regardless of geographic boundaries, nationality, gender, ethnic origin, language, religion or any other status. Human rights also include group rights such as self-determination and economic development. These rights are interrelated, interdependent and indivisible

Critical Assessment of the International Alliance of Women The International Alliance of Women (IAW) is an international non-governmental organization that works to promote women 's human rights around the world, focusing particularly on empowerment of women and development issues and more broadly on gender equality. The basic principle of the IAW is that the full and equal enjoyment of human rights is due to all women and girls. Founded in 1904 and based in Geneva, it is one of the oldest, largest

measures previously taken by the International Law community that attempt to put and end to child marriages an effective measure to stop this violation of human rights? I argue that, although there are substantial International Law actions already attempted at ending this barbarism, I do not believe that they are enough to prevent the circumstances that child marriages spring from, including

The European Convention of Human Rights (ECHR) can be defined as an international agreement initiated within the Council of Europe, which was established in 1949 in Strasbourg in France in order to unify Europe after the Second World War (Harries et al., 2014; O 'Boyle, 2014). According to Donald et al., (2012), United Kingdom was among the first countries to adopt and has played an important role in ECHR creation at that time. In 1966, the petition and jurisdiction of UK’s citizens was voluntary

Public Law 2200 Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered Individual: An Unaccepted Facet of all of the World’s Societies Society is shaped through the furtherance of two genders, male and female, and most countries rely on the heterosexual tradition for defining society. There are many countries that to this day still disregard any other points of view that may nullify their habits, in the midst of the concept of outside-the-box action would be homosexuality, or as the Charter of Rights and Freedoms

The doctrine of the Responsibility to Protect emerged during the mid-90s following the International Communities failure to respond to the genocides in Rwanda and Bosnia. It is an emerging principle which has been increasingly grounded in international law over the past decade, it dictates that national sovereignty is not a right and holds governments accountable to protect their citizens. Many had adverse reactions to this breach of state sovereignty, which is outlined in the Charter of the United