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Thomas Hammarberg, Human Rigts Commissioner of the Council of Europe, yesterday released a call for more human rights education in schools. The call rests on the premise that human rights become more effective when people are actually aware of them. This seems a fair and perhaps rather evident idea. However, I am not sure Hammaberg [...]
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In another worrying judgment generated by the Israeli HCJ, the Court upholds that the occupying power can restrict the basic human right to leave one’s country and the freedom of movement (Article 12 of the UN Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, inter alia) of the occupied population by obliging persons seeking to leave their [...]
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Jess Bravin of the Wall Street Journal has a brief but very interesting and useful guide to what the US Supreme Court may look like following November’s presidential election. Interestingly, it is called into question whether it is a good idea to have a former constitutional scholar (Obama) to appoint justices to the Court.
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On Friday 3 October, the European Commission published a proposal on the extension and the improvement of the EU law framework on maternity leave (COM(2008) 600/4). The proposal forms part of a package of measures aimed at helping women to align their work with their family life. More specifically, according to Social Affairs Commissioner Vladimir [...]
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Although the current world-wide financial crisis is indeed a bad one, it could just be that it might lead to a few good outcomes. One such outcome could be, according to Tony Barber of the Financial Times’ Brussels Blog, further European integration. It certainly appears that the dismal economic situation in Iceland has lead to [...]
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