The fundamental principles of the Red Cross, peace and human rights

1980 ◽  
Vol 20 (217) ◽  
pp. 171-183 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacques Moreillon
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Common Factor ◽  
The Other ◽  
Red Cross ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The One

The theme of this paper is not an easy one. The difficulty of our subject is twofold: on the one hand, two of its three facets (peace and human rights) raise conceptual and interpretative problems; on the other hand, to deal with them together would involve finding a common factor, something which is not obvious even—perhaps especially—within the limited framework of the Red Cross movement.

USSR

1990 ◽  
Vol 30 (S1) ◽  
pp. 71-72
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Soviet Union ◽  
The Other ◽  
Red Cross ◽  
International Humanitarian Law ◽  
Humanitarian Law ◽  
Government Officials ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
The One

The ICRC travelled to the Soviet Union on several occasions, in particular to Moscow, Vilnius, Minsk, Kiev, Tashkent and Boukhara. The aim of the visits was, on the one hand, to develop contacts with Red Cross and Red Crescent representatives and government officials, and on the other hand, to participate in seminars on international humanitarian law and human rights.

scholarly journals Dilemmas about the scope of the Act on Prevention of Domestic Violence from a human rights perspective

2020 ◽  
Vol 66 (4/2019) ◽  
pp. 193-206
Author(s):  
Darko Simović
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Legal System ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
The Other ◽  
Effective Prevention ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
International Obligations ◽  
The Republic ◽  
The One

The adoption of the Act on Prevention of Domestic Violence was driven by the creation of a more effective legal framework for the protection of victims of domestic violence, and, therefore, also by the alignment of the legal system of the Republic of Serbia with international obligations. The main novelties include multi-sectoral cooperation and primarily preventive nature of the law. However, from its very adoption, it has been pointed to its noticeably repressive character, as well as to provisions with potentially harmful impacts. Hence, this paper represents a contribution to the discussion on the importance and scope of the solutions provided for in the Act on Prevention of Domestic Violence. On the one hand, it points to major novelties intended to contribute to a more effective prevention of domestic violence. On the other hand, it questions the constitutionality and appropriateness of some of the legal solutions, arguing that, in particular respects, the lawmaker had to use a wiser and more subtle approach to conceptualising the provisions of this law.

Droits de l’homme, droits de Dieu : Une inévitable tension ?

2018 ◽  
Vol 65 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Silvio Ferrari
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
The Other ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The Will ◽  
The One ◽  
International Conventions ◽  
Religious Obligation ◽  
Will Of God

The conflicts between rights of God and human rights are on the rise. On the one hand, there are some rights that are qualified as human rights in the most important international conventions and in many national constitutions. As such, they are to be respected always and everywhere. On the other hand, there are rights that are directly or indirectly attributed to the will of God. Their respect is regarded as a religious obligation to be upheld even when it implies the violation of human rights. These are the terms of the conflict and the fact that they sink their roots in non-negotiable beliefs – rights related to the very nature of man vs. rights dependent on the will of God–makes this conflict particularly serious and complex. This article discusses the structural and historical causes of this conflict and proposes a few strategies to reduce the tensions between these two sets of rights.

Instrumentalism and Human Rights

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erasmus Mayr
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Moral Rights ◽  
The Other ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The One ◽  
The Impact

This comment examines the impact of Buchanan’s and Sreenivasan’s critique of the mirroring view on some established theories of human rights, in particular on ‘political’ accounts like Joseph Raz’s, which consider human rights to be a subclass of moral rights. It is argued that, on the one hand, such theories are not best understood as relying on the mirroring view, and, on the other hand, that they have resources to defend the mirroring view against Buchanan’s and Sreenivasan’s criticisms.

Statecraft, Witchcraft, God’s Craft: Religious Diversity and the Forces of Law in South Africa

2017 ◽  
Vol 47 (2) ◽  
pp. 257-284
Author(s):  
Marian Burchardt
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Religious Diversity ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
The Other ◽  
Power Struggles ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The Law ◽  
The One

AbstractLegal anthropologists and sociologists of religion increasingly recognize the importance of law in current controversies over religious diversity. Drawing on the case of South Africa, this article explores how such controversies are shaped by contestations over what counts as ‘religion’. Analyzing the historical context and emergent forms of institutional secularity from which contemporary contestations over religious diversity draw, the article explores debates and practices of classification around religion, tradition, and culture, and the ways in which these domains are co-constituted through their claims on the law: on the one hand through an analysis of religion-related jurisprudence; on the other hand through an examination of the debates on witchcraft, law, and religion. I argue that the production of judicial knowledge of ‘religion’, ‘culture’, and ‘tradition’ is tied up with contestations over the power to define the meaning of the domains. In fact, contrary to notions of constitutionality in which rights seem to exist prior to the claims made on their basis, in a fundamental sense rights struggles help to constitute the contemporary human rights dispensation. Against the Comaroffs’ claim that judicialization depoliticizes power struggles, I show that legal claims making remains vibrantly political.

scholarly journals Cheating in chess: a call for an integrated disciplinary regulation

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
pp. 57-83
Author(s):  
Salomėja Zaksaitė
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
The Other ◽  
Computer Assisted ◽  
Sports Law ◽  
Legal Research ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Broad Concept ◽  
The One

This article examines recent regulation in the sport of chess with a focus on cheating. On the one hand, disciplinary law in chess could be considered relatively underdeveloped compared with other sports. On the other hand, however, this kind of ‘underdevelopment’ might be appropriate since chess governing bodies have not yet introduced interventionist rules. These two interacting perspectives shape the aim and the objectives of legal research designed to protect the chess community from cheating by suggesting adequate disciplinary measures. The analysis focuses mainly on two forms of cheating: computer-assisted cheating and match-fixing. The broad concept of cheating and relatively young legal regulation in an under-researched sport call for interdisciplinary analysis, therefore, knowledge of sports law, human rights as well as criminology is applied.

scholarly journals Rights of Man, Rights of God: An Unavoidable Tension?

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 241-255
Author(s):  
Silvio Ferrari
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
The Other ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The Will ◽  
The One ◽  
International Conventions ◽  
Religious Obligation ◽  
Will Of God

Abstract The conflicts between rights of God and rights of man are on the rise. On the one hand, there are some rights that are qualified as human rights in the most important international conventions and in many national constitutions. As such, they are to be respected always and everywhere. On the other hand, there are rights that are directly or indirectly attributed to the will of God. Their respect is regarded as a religious obligation to be upheld even when it implies the violation of human rights. These are the terms of the conflict and the fact that they sink their roots in non-negotiable beliefs—rights related to the very nature of man versus rights dependent on the will of God—makes this conflict particularly serious and complex. This article discusses the structural and historical causes of this conflict and proposes a few strategies to reduce the tensions between these two sets of rights.

The Religion/Secularism Debate in Human Rights Literature

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Haskell
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
The Other ◽  
Constitutive Relationship ◽  
Legal Scholarship ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The One ◽  
Aesthetic Sensibility

The tension between religion and secularism within the field of human rights is a popular topic in contemporary international legal scholarship. In the first section of the chapter, I map the arguments between Christianity, Islam, and liberal secular perspectives: on the one hand, exploring the different styles of treatment available within scholarship, and on the other hand, demonstrating how they bear a constitutive relationship to each other that reveals a common aesthetic sensibility and set of disciplinary assumptions among concerned scholars. Whatever differences exist in the texts, the paper seeks to show that authors only tend to produce four varieties of argument around the rhetorical trope law/religion/secularism, and that each of these four varieties are dependent upon their seemingly antagonistic counterparts.

Schutz und Gefährdung von Rechten durch die staatliche Kriminalstrafe

1981 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Elke Kliemt ◽  
Hartmut Kliemt
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Moral Theory ◽  
The Other ◽  
Criminal Sanction ◽  
Legal Punishment ◽  
Institutional Settings ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The One ◽  
Main Criticism

AbstractUtilitarianism has been widely accused of inadequately treating the problem of human rights. One main criticism has been, that it could not account for acceptable institutions of legal punishment. Though the utilitarian position seems to be untenable it contains some sound points - above all its consequentialist metaethics. The central weakness of “rightbased” justifications of the criminal sanction on the other hand seems to be that they do not give due place to the consequences of alternative institutional settings. But it seems to be possible to establish a right-based and consequentialist moral theory of legal punishment leading to an acceptable practice of punishment - though not necessarily the one we are acquainted with.

scholarly journals Agama di Ruang Publik Politik

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 95
Author(s):  
Muhammad Dawam Rahardjo
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Civil Rights ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
Political Ideology ◽  
The State ◽  
The Other ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The One ◽  
Role Of Religion

ABSTRACT: The question of the role of religion in the public sphere of politics is because of its history, the three monotheist religions, which is also called the Abrahamic religions. Judaism, Christianity and Islam, and even Hinduism and Buddhism, in maintaining their existences and developments, always get into and even form their own power in a country. Indonesia is a secular nation state, which is not based on any particular religion as a political ideology, and yet its people are multi-religious. Even though the country is not based on religion, but religion has become a source of inspiration in its constitution, namely UUD (Undang Undang Dasar) 1945. On the one hand, people and the state are in unity for mutual support or mutual need. The state cannot be formed without people as its base. On the other hand, people need the state to protect the society. Constitution is needed to control the state and its leader. On the one hand this constitution curbs the power of its leader; and on the other hand it guarantees the fulfillment and the protection of civil rights that stem from human rights. The triangle of these institutions is a reality in the current modern world, especially in Indonesia, where religion has an important role, even though in Europe the stand and the role of religion is in the declining stage due to secularization and secularism principle. Yet the relationship of these three institutions in the current modern context cause a complex issues related to the boundaries of these three institutions. What are the principles that can continuously connects these three so that justice as the main principle can be uphold between the triangle of society, state and religion?KEY WORDS: religion, public sphere, nation, civil rights, human rights

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