International human rights law Part 17

 

International human rights law and the Administration of Justice through Military Tribunals: Preserving Utility while Precluding Impunity
Michael R. Gibson
Journal of International Law and International Relations
Volume 4, Number 1, Winter 2008 p.1

THE PROTECTION OF HUMAN RIGHTS UNDER INTERNATIONAL LAW: WILL THE U.N. HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL AND THE EMERGING NEW NORM “RESPONSIBILITY TO PROTECT”MAKE A DIFFERENCE?
Ved P. Nanda
Denver Journal of International Law and Policy
Volume 35, Number 3/4, Summer/Fall 2007 p.353

The case against corporal punishment of children: Converging evidence from social science research and international human rights law and implications for U.S. public policy
Gershoff, Elizabeth T.; Bitensky, Susan H.
Psychology, Public Policy, and Law
Volume 13, Number 4, November 2007 p.231-272

IMPACT OF INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS LAW ON INTERNALLY DISPLACED GULF COAST CITIZENS
John S. Williams & Kristy Bennett
Mississippi Law Journal
Volume 77, Number 3, Spring 2008 p.853

Mental health and human rights: The role of the law in developing a right to enjoy the highest attainable standard of mental health in Australia
Bernadette McSherry
Journal of Law and Medicine
Volume 15, Number 5, May 2008 p.773

Article 12(1) of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights requires governments to recognise “the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health”. However, the traditional focus of mental health laws on the treatment and detention of those with low-prevalence serious mental illnesses may have skewed resources such that the development of a right to mental health for all individuals with mental illnesses has been stymied. In Australia, a number of inquiries and reports have found that while legislation has been changed to comply with human rights principles, access to mental health care and follow-up post-hospitalisation need critical attention. This article outlines a five-year project aimed at exploring how mental health laws can help develop and support a right to enjoy the highest attainable standard of mental health.

Health and human rights: Challenges of implementation and cultural change
Ian Freckelton
Journal of Law and Medicine
Volume 15, Number 5, May 2008 p.794

The author identifies the evolution of discourse about human rights to health in medical law, health law and public health law, as well as in major international instruments. He emphasises the importance of General Comment No 14 on Art 12 of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights . He argues that its breadth but also its specificity in terms of accountable benchmarks and measures of health service provision are likely to frame discourse on “rights to health”in the succeeding years. He identifies the need for translation of the rhetoric in such instruments into meaningful and patient-informed data so that it becomes possible to compare and contrast advances (or otherwise) in rights to health within and among different countries.

Eighth Annual Gender, Sexuality & the Law Symposium and International Women’s Human Rights Clinic Report
Georgetown Journal of Gender and the Law
Volume 8, Number 3, 2007

UN Peace Operations and Security Council Resolutions: A Tool for Measuring the Status of International Human Rights Law?
KATARINA MANSSON
Journal of Forensic Economics
Volume 20, Number 1, Winter 2007 p.79

What is International Human Rights Law? Three Applications of a Distributive Account
Patrick Macklem
McGill Law Journal
Volume 52, Number 3, Autumn 2007 p.575

The Role of International Human Rights Law in the American Decision to Abolish the Juvenile Death Penalty
William Feldman
Appalachian Journal of Law
Volume 7, Issue 1, Winter 2007 p.89

Plomer, Aurora. The Law and Ethics of Medical Research: International Bioethics and Human Rights (Cavendish Publishing, 2005)
Kevin Wm. Wildes
Human Rights Review
Volume 9, Number 1, March 2008 p.155-156

 

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International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, International human rights law.