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Lobbying, Access Points, and the Protection of Human Rights in Democracies.
Publication Type: Academic Journal
Source(s): International Interactions. Sep2023, p1-27. 27p. 3 Illustrations, 2 Charts.
Abstract: Abstract Why do some democracies better protect human rights than other democracies? Although research shows that democracies engage in fewer human rights abuses than nondemocracies, we know less about what explains the variation in respect for right...
Freedom on the offensive: human rights, democracy promotion, and US interventionism in the late Cold War.
Publication Type: Academic Journal
Source(s): International Affairs. Jul2023, Vol. 99 Issue 4, p1828-1830. 3p.
Abstract: By the late 1970s, there was a market for a new US foreign policy that might halt the communist advance abroad and - Reagan hoped - to drown out the post-Vietnam foreign policy cacophony with a new bipartisan consensus. Michael Schmidli finds the answe...
Arms Transfers and Human Rights: Assessing the Impact and Enforcement of the EU Common Position on Arms Exports in a Multilevel Analysis.
Publication Type: Academic Journal
Source(s): European Foreign Affairs Review. 2022, Vol. 27 Issue 4, p463-484. 22p.
Abstract: Arms export control measures are an important tool to defend the universality of human rights, democracy and to prevent conflicts. The European Union (EU) has a long tradition of striving towards these goals. One of the most important outcomes regardin...
Business and Human Rights in Latin America: An Introduction to the Special Issue.
Publication Type: Academic Journal
Source(s): Business & Human Rights Journal. Oct2022, Vol. 7 Issue 3, p335-341. 7p.
Abstract: In his landmark 1967 novel One Hundred Years of Solitude , Gabriel García Márquez wrote about the 'Banana Massacre', where plantation workers that had been striking against the United Fruit Company to improve their working conditions were killed by the...
Heritage from below in Latin America: Urban protests and the struggle for Human Rights.
Publication Type: Academic Journal
Source(s): European Review of Latin American & Caribbean Studies. Jan-Jun2022, Issue 113, p89-102. 14p.
Abstract: The article focuses on the end of Latin American dictatorships, scholars analyzed the relationship between violence, memory and democracy. Topics include examines these societies have continued to grapple not only with the legacy of authoritarian gover...
Facial recognition technology, democracy and human rights.
Publication Type: Academic Journal
Source(s): Computer Law & Security Review. Jul2023, Vol. 49, pN.PAG-N.PAG. 1p.
Abstract: On 4 July 2023, the Third Section of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) delivered the first judgment on the compatibility of facial recognition technology with human rights in Glukhin v. Russia. The case concerned the use of facial recognition ...
TOWARDS A GREATER UNDERSTANDING OF GUARANTEES OF NON-REPETITION (GNR) OR NON-RECURRENCE OF HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS: HOW GNR INTERSECTS TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE WITH PROCESSES OF STATE (RE)BUILDING, THE RULE OF LAW, DEMOCRATIC GOVERNANCE, RECONCILIATION, NATION BUILDING, SOCIAL COHESION AND HUMAN RIGHTS PROTECTION.
Publication Type: Academic Journal
Source(s): Stanford Journal of International Law. Fall2021, Vol. 57 Issue 2, p191-229. 39p.
Abstract: States that enter periods of peace often revert back into conflict within a short period of time. In fact, some states go through ongoing cycles of peace and conflict. Against this context, it is important to find ways to ensure states remain peaceful ...
Applying Harold Koh's Transnational Legal Model to Current Human Rights Challenges.
Publication Type: Academic Journal
Source(s): University of Chicago Law Review. Nov2021, Vol. 88 Issue 7, p1767-1773. 7p.
Abstract: The article focuses on Harold Koh which has been a pivotal figure in the evolving human rights movement and assistant secretary of state for democracy, human rights, and labor. It mentions lawyers and legal experts have commented on the visa ban and su...
Human Rights: What Does the Future Hold?
Publication Type: Academic Journal
Source(s): International Studies Review. Sep2021, Vol. 23 Issue 3, p1164-1178. 15p.
Abstract: There is no shortage of bad human rights news around the world. Human rights are threatened in dictatorships to consolidated democracies. The rise of nationalist demagoguery within countries and the rise of China as a potential hegemon in the internati...
HUMAN RIGHTS IN SOUTHEAST ASIA: A REGIONAL OUTLOOK.
Publication Type: Academic Journal
Source(s): Current Politics & Economics of South, Southeastern & Central Asia. 2021, Vol. 30 Issue 2/3, p133-172. 40p.