Clemens N. Nathan has devoted a lifetime to the pursuit of Human Rights to understanding and reflecting upon the concept of Human Rights; to participating in, and sometimes helping to create, organisations and mechanisms for the protection and promotion of Human Rights; to helping those who have been denied their Human Rights and to encouraging and supporting research into and scholarship on Human Rights. All this has been achieved by a man who has had no formal training in the field, but who has become a recognised expert through his extensive reading, through working with leading exponents, and by drawing upon his lively intellect, his wealth of culture and his knowledge of history, philosophy and religions. This volume, published under the auspices of the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, offers insight into the challenging relationship between religion and human rights.
Two things in particular are critical for understanding religious human rights in
Nigeria: corruption and religious pluralism. It is no secret that corruption has
permeated the fabric of ... They are key players in the fight against corruption,
which necessarily denies some people their human dignity. It follows that the right and freedom to live one's religion is ... Religious Human Rights in the World
Today. 329 Shari'ah is the Arabic word for Islamic law, also know as the law of Allah. 330 Ibid.
The author offers an overview of the most important topics and developments in international criminal law, which are essential to everyone studying and practicing ICL.
followed the “suspicious” 17 year old Trayvon Martin, who he subsequently shot
to death.168 Mr. Zimmerman had to face trial for second degree murder, and a
discussion arose as to the legitimacy of the U.S. “Stand your Ground” laws, which
rescinds the duty to retreat in self-defense situations where this would have been
possible.169 Under this law, it is “easier to prevail under selfdefense theory.”170
However, recourse to self-defense before icts is not frequently made. However,
the ...
Samuel L. Leiter's Kabuki at the Crossroads is a thorough account of Japan's most famous traditional theatre as it struggled to survive in the maelstrom of post-Occupation Japan's rapidly changing entertainment world.
Even though he himself was born in Tokyo, he was determined to keep the
Kansai flame alive. ... When I hear such crazy ideas I have to warn you because I
have your best interests at heart.69 Nizaemon and Shirai saw things from
different ...
Most conspicuously the requisite financial statements prepared for, say, a
German company such as Daimler Benz would not fully comply with generally
accepted accounting practices as understood in the UNITED STATES, and the
SEC has ...
This volume offers an evaluation of the Schengen Information System and border control co-operation from a transparency and proportionality perspective. It also incorporates a legal descriptive analysis of the co-operation in order to accommodate the changes and developments that occurred during the writing period. The transparency and proportionality perspectives are developed from human rights and data protection criteria. Transparency is understood as knowledge and accessibility to legal information as well as openness and accountability. On the other hand, proportionality is a requirement for guidance, balance and justification as well as a need to avoid excessiveness and arbitrariness in border control work. The final findings reveal that the Schengen co-operation suffers from a deficiency of transparency and proportionality. Consequently, measures are proposed to augment the deficiency. Even as this study was reaching its conclusion, fundamental legislative changes, closely similar to some of the arguments and recommendations projected in this study, took place. The efficacy of these changes is yet to be discerned.
The problem that may arise, where many systems exist, is the overlapping of
purpose, tasks and competence which may occasion ambiguity. This may be true
as re- gards the SIS and Interpol, which are databases with similar objectives.111
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