1. | Discrimination on grounds of sexual orientation and gender identity in Europe, 2011 |
BIBLIOGRAPHIC LEVEL: monograph Discrimination on grounds of sexual orientation and gender identity in Europe /. - 2. ed.., 132 p.. - Strasbourg : Council of Europe, 2011. ISBN 978-92-871-7257-0 LANGUAGE: ENG ABSTRACT: Introduction. 1. Attitudes and perceptions: 1.1. Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender persons. 1.2. Criminalisation and medical classifications. 1.3. Attitudes towards LGBT persons. 1.4. Perceptions of the nation, religion and traditional values. 1.5. Perceptions of LGBT persons' visibility and use of public space. 1.6. Media. 2. Legal standards and their implementation:. 2.1. Introduction. 2.2. International and European standards. 2.3. National standards. 2.4. National structures for promoting equality. 2.5. National policy initiatives. 3. Protection: violence and asylum:. 3.1. Introduction. 3.2. Violence against LGBT persons. 3.3. Asylum on the grounds of sexual orientation and gender identity. 4. Participation: freedoms of assembly, expression and association:. 4.1. Introduction. 4.2. International and European standards. 4.3. Situation in the member states. 5. Privacy: gender recognition and family life:. 5.1. Introduction. 5.2. Recognition of transgender persons' new gender and name. 5.3. The right to marry and legally contract a partnership. 5.4. Parenting and children. 6. Access to health care, education and employment:. 6.1. Introduction. 6.2. Health. 6.3. Education. 6.4. Employment. INDEX WORDS:
NOTE (GENERAL): ECHRP-12; UDHR; ICCPR-2; ICESCR-2; CEDAW; CRC; TEU; Treaty of Lisbon; EU charter of fundamental rights; European convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence; LIBRARY LOCATION: CoE-2011
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2. | Benedek, Wolfgang ... [et al.] : European yearbook on human rights 2012, 2012 |
BIBLIOGRAPHIC LEVEL: monograph European yearbook on human rights 2012 / Benedek, Wolfgang ... [et al.], 467 p.. - Antwerp : Intersentia, 2012. ISBN 978-3-7083-0844-9 LANGUAGE: ENG ABSTRACT: I : Topics of the Year:. 1. Mohsine EL AHMADI and Abdelaziz RADI: Arab Spring and Human Rights. 2. Andreas ACCARDO, Jonas GRIMHEDEN and Klaus STARL: The Case for Human Rights at the Local Level: More than an Obligation?. II European Union:. 1. Wolfgang BENEDEK: EU Action on Human and Fundamental Rights in 2011. 1. Theodor RATHGEBER: The EU’s Performance in the UN Human Rights Council in 2011 in Light of the Review Process and its Main Outcomes. 3. Jeff KENNER: The Court of Justice of the European Union and Human Rights in 2011. 4. Daniel AUGENSTEIN and Christian BEHRMANN: Partnering with Civil Society: The EU’s Approach to Promoting Human Rights and Decent Work in Bangladesh. 5. Gosia GORSKA: Mutual Influence: The Case of the EU and the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights. 6. Paul GRAGL: The Shortcomings of Dublin II: Strasbourg’s M.S.S. Judgment and its Implications for the European Union’s Legal Order. 7. Rachel TOWERS: Recasting the Dublin II Regulation: Do the Draft Provisions on Appeal Rights, Detention and Access to Asylum Procedures Sufficiently Protect Asylum-Seekers’ Fundamental Rights?. 8. Lidia Isabel ESTEVEZ PICON: Criminalizing Irregular Immigrants in the EU: A Human Rights Issue. 9. Paolo BIONDI: The Externalization of the EU’s Southern Border in Light of the EU/Libya Framework Agreement: A Lawful Alternative or a Neo-Refoulement Strategy?. 10. Birgit Angela WEIXELBAUMER, Maria HADJIPAVLOU and Kalliope AGAPIOU-JOSEPHIDES: The EU Facing the Human Trafficking Challenge: Reintegration as a Possible Shift Towards a Victim-Centred Approach. 11. Sara DE VIDO: The European Contribution to the Recognition of the Human Right to Water. III Council of Europe:. 1. Tatjana CARDONA, Elisabeth HANDL-PETZ, Eva LECHNER and Brigitte OHMS: ECtHR Jurisprudence in 2011: An Overview. 2. Tatiana MARTYNOVA: Implementation of European Court of Human Rights Judgments in the Russian Legal Order: 3. Violeta BEŠIREVIÆ: A Short Guide to Militant Democracy: Some Remarks on the Strasbourg Jurisprudence. 4. Pierre THIELBÖRGER: Positive Obligations in the ECHR after the Stoicescu Case: A Concept in Search of Content?. 5. Agnieszka SZKLANNA: The Standing of Applicants and NGOs in the Process of Supervision of ECtHR Judgments by the Committee of Ministers. 6. Lando KIRCHMAIR: The Right to Judicial Protection under the ECHR: A Yardstick for the Individual Action for Annulment after Lisbon?. 7. Michaela POVOLNÁ: Protection of Medical Data in the Scope of Article 8 ECHR: An Analysis of the European Data Protection Safeguards. 7. Markus MÖSTL: Monitoring Human Rights by Council of Europe Bodies: Quo Vadis?. IV OSCE:. 1. Manfred NOWAK and Karolina JANUSZEWSKI: Criminal Justice and Prison Standards in the OSCE Area. 2. Hans-Joachim HEINTZE: The Unique Contribution of the OSCE in the Field of Minority Protection. V Civil society/NGOs/cross-cutting issues:. 1. Gabor Halmai: From the “Rule of Law Revolution” to the Constitutional Counter-Revolution in Hungary. 2. Enver HASANI, Dren DOLI and Fisnik KORENICA: Individual Complaint Mechanism as a Means to Protecting Fundamental Human Rights and Freedoms: The Case of the Constitutional Court of Kosovo. 3. Vedrana SPAJIÆ VRKAŠ and Mitja ŽAGAR: Civic Education in South-Eastern Europe: Education and Training for Human Rights and Active Democratic Citizenship. 4. Kira PRECKEL and Rosalind WILLI: The Role of Civil Society in the Universal Periodic Review: Human Dignity, in Your Hands?. 5. Mirt KOMEL: Statelessness and the Right to Have Rights: Universalism of Human Rights within the Context of the UN and EU. INDEX WORDS:
NOTE (GENERAL): CAT; ICCPR; European charter for regional or minority languages; ICESCR; EU charter of fundamental rights; ECHR; ESC; CERD; UDHR; TEU; TFEU; European charter of local self-government; ECPT; ECRI; LIBRARY LOCATION: S European yb... |
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3. | Namwase, Sylvie (ed.) : Protecting the human rights of sexual minorities in contemporary Africa, 2017 |
BIBLIOGRAPHIC LEVEL: monograph Protecting the human rights of sexual minorities in contemporary Africa / Namwase, Sylvie (ed.) ; Jjuuko, Adrian (ed.), 323 p. - Pretoria : Pretoria University Law Press, 2017. ISBN 978-1-920538-60-6 LANGUAGE: ENG ABSTRACT: CONTENTS:. 1. Sylvie Namwase, Adrian Jjuuko and Ivy Nyarango: Sexual minorities' rights in Africa: what does it mean to be human; and who gets to decide?. 2. John Osogo Ambani: A triple heritage of sexuality? Regulation of sexual orientation in Africa in historical perspective. 3. Sylvie Namwase: Culture versus homosexuality: can a right 'from' culture be claimed in Ugandan courts?. 4. Seth Muchuma Wekesa: Decriminalisation of homosexuality in Kenya: the prospects and challenges. 5. Ella Scheepers and Ishtar Lakhani: Somewhere over the rainbow: the continued struggle for the realisation of lesbian and gay rights in South Africa. 6. Busisiwe Deyi: First class constitution, second class citizen: exploring the adoption of third-gender gategory in South Africa. 7. Esau Mandipa: The suppression of sexual minority rights: a case study of Zimbabwe. 8. Roopanand Amar Mahadew and Darsheene Singh Raumnauth: A psycho-legal reflection on issues surrounding the LGBTI community in Mauritius. 9. Emerson Lopes: The legal status of sexual minorities in Mozambique. 10. Lame Charmaine Olebile: The status of LGBTI rights in Botswana and its implications for social justice. 11. Victor Oluwasina Ayeni: Human rights and the criminalisation of same-sex relationships in Nigeria: a critique of the Same-Sex Marriage (Prohibition) Act. 12. Azubike Chinwuba Onuora-Oguno: Protecting same-sex rights in Nigeria: case note on Teriah Joseph Ebah v Federal Government of Nigeria. 13. Michel Togue: The status of sexual minority rights in Cameroon. 14. Adrian Jjuuko: The protection and promotion of LGBTI rights in the African regional human rights system: opportunities and challenges. INDEX WORDS:
GEOGRAPHICAL TERMS: Botswana / Cameroon / Kenya / Mauritius / Mozambique / Nigeria / South Africa / Uganda / Zimbabwe NOTE (MEETINGS): Colloquium on sexual minority rights in Africa, Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria, December 2014 |
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4. | Brems, Eva (ed.) : Children's rights law in the global human rights landscape, 2017 |
BIBLIOGRAPHIC LEVEL: monograph Children's rights law in the global human rights landscape : isolation, inspiration, integration? / Brems, Eva (ed.) ; Desmet, Ellen (ed.) ; Vandenhole, Wouter (ed.), 312 p. - London : Routledge, 2017. ISBN 978-1-138-63901-0 LANGUAGE: ENG ABSTRACT: CONTENTS:. Eva Brems, Ellen Desmet and Wouter Vandenhole: Children's rights law and human rights law: analysing present and possible future interactions. PART I: THE BROADER RELEVANCE OF FEATURES OF CHILDREN'S RIGHTS LAW. 1. Wouter Vandenhole: Distinctive characteristics of children's human rights law. 2. Helen Stalford: The broader relevance of features of children's rights law: the 'best interests of the child' principle. 3. Laura Lundy and Bronagh Byrne: The four general principles of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child: the potential value of the approach in other areas of human rights law. 4. Roberta Ruggiero, Diana Volonakis and Karl Hanson: The inclusion of 'third parties': the status of parenthood in the Convention on the Rights of the Child. PART II: INSPIRATION FOR CHILDREN'S RIGHTS FROM CATEGORICAL HUMAN RIGHTS. 5. Eva Brems: Lessons for children's rights from women's rights? Emancipation rights as a distinct category of human rights. 6. Ralph Sandland: Lessons for children's rights from disability rights?. 7. Ellen Desmet: Inspiration for children's rights from indigenous peoples' rights. 8. Ann-Katrin Habbig, Alexander Hoefmans and Paul De Hert: What young and old can learn from each other: cross-fertilization between existing human rights law for children and developing human rights law for older persons. PART III: THE INTERPLAY BETWEEN CHILDREN'S RIGHTS LAW AND HUMAN RIGHTS LAW IN THEMATIC AREAS. 9. Titia Loenen: Towards an integrated approach to intra-family relations under the CRC and CEDAW: some reflections. 10. Ivana Isailovic: Children's rights and LGBTI persons' rights: some thoughts on their 'integration'. 11. Julie Ryngaert and Wouter Vandenhole: Undocumented migration: integrating the children's rights concept of nuanced vulnerability in human rights law. 12. Eva Lievens: Children's rights and media: imperfect but inspirational. 13. Danielle van Kalmthout: Out of isolation: a claim for explicit attention for children in the movement towards recognition of an environmental right. 14. Gamze Erdem Türkelli: Children's rights in business and human rights: from the sidelines to the centre field? INDEX WORDS:
NOTE (GENERAL): CRC: CRPD; CEDAW |
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5. | Muiznieks, Nils : Human rights in Europe, 2017 |
BIBLIOGRAPHIC LEVEL: monograph Human rights in Europe : from crisis to renewal? / Muiznieks, Nils, 249 p. - Strasbourg : Council of Europe, 2017. LANGUAGE: ENG ABSTRACT: CONTENTS:. 1. Social rights, austerity and preserving Europe's acquis. 2. Migration and human rights. 3. Freedom of expression and media freedom. 4. Human rights defenders. 5. Children's rights. 6. Women's rights and gender equality. 7. Human rights of Roma and travellers. 8. Human rights of LGBTI people. 9. Intolerance. 10. Transitional justice and human rights. 11. Counter-terrorism and human rights. 12. Law enforcement, the judiciary and human rights INDEX WORDS:
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