scholarly journals Article 9: The Right Not to Be Separated from Parents

Author(s):  
Christian Whalen

AbstractThe Travaux Préparatoires insist upon the close nexus between Articles 9, 10, and 11 along with the several other provisions of the UNCRC that protect the close bond between child and parent. This chapter analyses the content of Article 9 in relation to the general principles of Child rights, related provisions in other international human rights treaties and materials, and sets out four main attributes of the right, as a child, to not be separated from one’s parents against one’s will. These four attributes are: (1) no separation from parents unless necessary for the child’s best interests; (2) no separation from one’s parents without due process before competent authorities; (3) the right to maintain relations and personal contact with both parents, if separated; and (4) the right to be informed of the whereabouts of one’s parent or child, if detained.

Author(s):  
Clooney Amal ◽  
Webb Philippa

This chapter focuses on the right to be presumed innocent, one of the most ancient and important principles of criminal justice, and a prerequisite for any system based on the rule of law. The right is absolute and non-derogable and, at its core, prohibits convictions that are predetermined or based on flimsy grounds. International human rights bodies have therefore found that where a conviction is based on non-existent, insufficient, or unreliable evidence, the presumption has been violated and a miscarriage of justice has occurred. More frequently, international human rights bodies have applied the presumption to require specific procedural protections during a trial. These include guarantees that the prosecution bears the burden of proving a defendant’s guilt beyond reasonable doubt, and that the defendant should not be presented or described as a criminal before he has been proved to be one. The chapter concludes that the presumption is protected in similar terms in international human rights treaties, but also highlights divergences in international jurisprudence relating to the standard for finding that a court’s assessment of evidence violates the presumption, the permissibility of reversing the burden of proof, and the extent to which the presumption applies after a trial has been completed.


Author(s):  
d’Argent Pierre ◽  
de Ghellinck Isabelle

Principle 32 deals with the procedural aspect of the right to reparation, that is, the right for victims of human right violations to access remedial procedures. It addresses three issues: the right to access remedial procedures, procedural requirements of national reparation programmes, and regional and international procedures. While the obligation of states to provide effective remedies is enshrined in most of, if not all, the key international human rights treaties, Principle 32 provides for a right to all victims to access remedies. ‘Reparation’ and ‘remedies’ are both envisioned as victims’ rights, but the distinction between them is vague. After providing a contextual and historical background on Principle 32, this chapter discusses its theoretical framework and how the reparation procedure, judicial or administrative, dealing with gross violations of human rights at national or international level has been implemented.


2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Diane F Frey

<p>The existence of a right to strike under international law has been challenged by the International Organization of Employers since the late 1980s. The employer group claims that no such right exists under international law and has been moving to undermine recognition of the right at the International Labour Organisation (ILO). This article examines the right to strike in international human rights law. It considers specifically the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) and finds that the right to strike exists in both of these treaties. Further, the article demonstrates that while the ILO employers group may challenge the existence of the right to strike, its government members have overwhelmingly ratified international human rights treaties contradicting the employer group's position that there is no such right.</p>


2015 ◽  
Vol 12 (5) ◽  
pp. 198
Author(s):  
Luís Renato Vedovato ◽  
Samyra Haydêe Dal Farra Naspolini

International human mobility and human rights can be linked by the dinamogenesis theory. The State sovereignty isn’t the same it was in the past. The State can’t decide about the right to entry without consider international human rights treaties. The nationality has an important row in finding how dinamogenesis can modify the interpretation of the State sovereignty. The right to entry is built in the evolution of human rights. Now State has no more the discretion to decide who can enter its territory, due to dinamogenesis and human rights.


Author(s):  
María Florencia Blanco Pighi

Los derechos humanos de los pueblos originarios, entre ellos, el derecho a la salud, son reconocidos por la Constitución Argentina, por tratados internacionales ratificados por nuestro país, por la normativa interna y por las constituciones provinciales. La Corte Suprema de Justicia de la Nación, mediante el fallo en análisis, establece que la protección de estos derechos debe asegurarse por la vía más idónea, y que, al existir una acción de amparo en curso, la medida cautelar de interposición más reciente, debe ser rechazada.   The Argentinian Constitution, the international human rights treaties ratified by Argentina, the argentine internal regulations and the constitution of several provinces, recognize the aboriginal´s human rights, including the right to health. In the judgment in analysis, the Argentinian Supreme Court of Justice, states that the protection of those rights needs to be accomplish by the most suitable way. When a legal protection action is in curse, the most recently filed action must be rejected.


2010 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 407-434 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcelle Reneman

AbstractDoes EU law provide for a right to interim protection in asylum cases and if so under what circumstances and in what form? These questions are addressed in this article on the basis of relevant EU legislation, the EU principle of effectiveness and the right to effective judicial protection, and finally international human rights law, which serves as a source of inspiration for these principles. It is argued that Article 39 of the Procedures Directive, interpreted in the light of the EU principle of effectiveness and the EU right to effective judicial protection, requires a remedy with automatic suspensive effect in all asylum cases, regardless of their arguability. It is therefore conceivable that this provision offers broader protection than the right to an effective remedy, laid down in international human rights treaties, such as Article 13 ECHR.


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