Business’ responsibilities in relation to right to water

Posted on February 25, 2009 by Jernej Letnar Černič

Institute for Human Rights and Business has recently published the draft report on Business, Human Rights and the Right to Water: Challenges, Dilemmas and Opportunities, Roundtable Consultative Report. The Reports attempts to ‘summarise the points of view of a group of individuals representing business, international organisations, and civil society who have contributed to issues pertaining [...]

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Romania and Ukraine Maritime Boundary Case

Posted on February 25, 2009 by James Harrison

I wanted to follow up on Gentian’s post on recent activity at the ICJ with a more detailed consideration of the judgment in the Case Concerning Maritime Delimitation in the Black Sea delivered by the Court at the beginning of February. Although both Romania and Ukraine are a party to the 1982 United Nations Convention [...]

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Cultivating Peace and Security As A Means of Protecting Human Rights In Africa: Back to the Basics

Posted on February 25, 2009 by innomawire

Africa is a continent where conflict is rife. Peace and security is arguably absent in many African states and human rights are not protected. The responsibility for ensuring peace and stability lies with the African Union (AU), at least at the regional level. It is a good to reflect on the provisions within the AU [...]

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Gabor Rona on the definition of “enemy combatant”

Posted on February 25, 2009 by Dominik Zimmermann

Jurist has an interesting article on the need of the Obama Administration to redefine the concept of “enemy combatant”. The article picks up a discussion that has been going on for the last couple of years and which has been characterized by a clash of different schools of dealing with international terrorism from the perspective [...]

Filed under: Human Rights, International Humanitarian Law, International terrorism, Public International Law | Leave a Comment »

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