Human Rights and Social Policy: Challenges and Opportunities for Social Research and Its Use as Evidence in the Protection and Promotion of Human Rights in Scotland

2012 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 191-203 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alison Hosie ◽  
Michele Lamb
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Social Policy ◽  
Social Research ◽  
Action Plan ◽  
Joint Project ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Protection Of Human Rights ◽  
Collection Phase ◽  
Conceptual Relationship

This article is the result of a joint project conducted by University of Roehampton and the Scottish Human Rights Commission, undertaken between March 2010 and April 2011. The article describes the methodological challenges encountered in the data collection phase of the project and addresses the conceptual relationship between social science and human rights research. It argues that social policy and social sciences research has an important contribution to make in the promotion and protection of human rights and demonstrates the use of the Research in Scotland's National Action Plan for Human Rights, being prepared by the Commission during 2012–13.

scholarly journals Corporate social responsibility and protection of workers’ human rights: the case of Germany

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 253-270
Author(s):  
Achim Seifert
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Supply Chain ◽  
Supply Chains ◽  
Public Procurement ◽  
Action Plan ◽  
German Law ◽  
Human Rights Violations ◽  
Current Debate ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Protection Of Human Rights

The following Article analyzes recent developments of German law regarding CSR and the protection of human rights in the production sites of foreign subsidiaries and suppliers of German companies. It gives a brief overview on the National Action Plan of the Federal Government, adopted in 2016, analyzes possibilities of a direct enforcement of human rights violations before German courts and gives a survey on some relevant instruments German law uses to promote the respect of human rights by German companies (e.g. CSR transparency and public procurement law). Finally, the current debate on the adoption of a “Supply Chains Act” is briefly assessed. The author argues that the CSR debate in Germany has reached a crossroad with the Federal Government’s initiative for a “Supply Chains Act” since such Act would probably establish a supply chain due diligence and also a delictual liability of German companies for human rights violations caused by a non-compliance with its statutory duties to control its supply chain. However, the outcome of this ongoing debate still is unclear.

New Technologies, New Challenges for Human Rights? The Work of the Council of Europe

2020 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 335-344
Author(s):  
Laurence Lwoff
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Human Health ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Action Plan ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Council Of Europe ◽  
Strategic Action ◽  
Protective Mechanisms ◽  
Protection Of Human Rights ◽  
Fit For Purpose

Abstract Convergence of emerging technologies (e.g. biotechnologies, information and cognitive technologies) has opened new perspectives for progress with regard to human health. However, these technologies also open new possibilities for interventions on human beings, which may be more invasive, and possibly affect and modify individuals. Established practices in the field of biomedicine are also evolving in a way that exerts pressure on existing protective mechanisms. Thus, consideration is required as to whether existing human rights provisions are still fit for purpose or whether there is a need to re-examine, clarify or re-enforce them or even a need to identify new human rights and protective measures. This article gives an overview of the main issues considered by the Committee on Bioethics of the Council of Europe to develop a Strategic Action Plan aimed at ensuring appropriate protection of human rights in the developments in biomedicine, promoting thereby progress for human health.

The Socialization of Human Rights and The African Human Rights Action Plan: Issues, Challenges and Opportunities

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-28
Author(s):  
Ibironke T. Odumosu-Ayanu ◽  
Obiora C. Okafor ◽  
Sylvia Bawa
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Action Plan ◽  
Multiple Roles ◽  
African Union ◽  
Socialization Processes ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Key Issues

Abstract This article critically analyzes human rights socialization in Africa through the lens of the draft African Human Rights Action Plan (AHRAP). It argues that the AHRAP presents a framework for human rights socialization, and it speaks to human rights socialization in distinctive ways. The article demonstrates that the AHRAP relies on African and international influences and seeks to propagate norms inspired by these influences. It analyzes three key issues from the AHRAP and discusses how those issues shape understanding of continental human rights socialization in Africa. These issues are the multiple roles and positions of the African Union, the identity of actors to whom socialization processes apply or ought to apply, and the nature of norms which are the focus of socialization efforts. The article’s analysis of these issues along with the AHRAP’s reliance on African and other influences reveal a path for human rights socialization in Africa that is both challenging and promising.

Policy Studies and Social Policy in Britain

1979 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 311-334
Author(s):  
Stuart S. Blume
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Social Policy ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Social Research ◽  
Policy Planning ◽  
Policy Studies ◽  
The Social ◽  
Policy Making Process ◽  
Recent Debate ◽  
The Relationship

ABSTRACTThe recent debate about the establishment of a ‘British Brookings’ involved a number of fundamental issues which were not brought out. In fact the idea that the British policy-making process should be made more ‘rational’ through the development of what are sometimes called policy studies is not new. It has roots in the Heyworth Report on social studies, which recommended greater use of social research in policy-making, and in the Fulton Report on the civil service, which argued for more policy-planning. These two approaches may now be seen as basically the same, and the problem as one of changing the relationship between social science and (social) policy. However, past analyses of this relationship attribute difficulties to quite different causes and hence yield a variety of prescriptions for reform. It is argued here that the policy studies which are needed must avoid the disciplinary fragmentation of the social sciences as well as that of the current administrative structure, that they must encompass research both for policy and on policy, and that they must seek their own conceptual structure, and in addition that certain organizational requirements follow from this.

scholarly journals Juventud e investigaciones sociales en Cuba

2017 ◽  
pp. 241
Author(s):  
María Isabel Domínguez
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Social Policy ◽  
Social Integration ◽  
Social Research ◽  
Treatment Area ◽  
The Social ◽  
Concrete Problem ◽  
Generational Identity ◽  
Last Stage ◽  
The Impact

ResumenLos estudios sobre Juventud han constituido una de las áreas de tratamiento más sistemático y estructurado por parte de las Ciencias Sociales en Cuba. El siguiente artículo hará referencia al recorrido de dichos estudios por más de cuatro décadas y centrará la atención en el tratamiento de un problema concreto investigado en la última etapa: la integración social de la juventud en el país y el impacto de los resultados de esos estudios en los cambios en las políticas sociales dirigidas a este sector.Palabras clave: Juventud, Investigaciones Sociales, Integración Social, Política Social, Subjetividad, Identidad Generacional.AbstractThe studies about Youth have constituted one of the more systematic and structured treatment area for Social Sciences in Cuba. The present paper makes reference to the journey of these studies for more than four decades. Also it pays attention to the treatment of a concrete problem researched in the last stage: the youth’s social integration in the country and the impact of the results of those studies in the social policies to this sector and its transformations.Key words: Youth, Social Research, Social Integration, Social Policy, Subjectivity, Generational Identity.

scholarly journals Juventud e investigaciones sociales en Cuba

2017 ◽  
pp. 241
Author(s):  
María Isabel Domínguez
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Social Policy ◽  
Social Integration ◽  
Social Research ◽  
Treatment Area ◽  
The Social ◽  
Concrete Problem ◽  
Generational Identity ◽  
Last Stage ◽  
The Impact

ResumenLos estudios sobre Juventud han constituido una de las áreas de tratamiento más sistemático y estructurado por parte de las Ciencias Sociales en Cuba. El siguiente artículo hará referencia al recorrido de dichos estudios por más de cuatro décadas y centrará la atención en el tratamiento de un problema concreto investigado en la última etapa: la integración social de la juventud en el país y el impacto de los resultados de esos estudios en los cambios en las políticas sociales dirigidas a este sector.Palabras clave: Juventud, Investigaciones Sociales, Integración Social, Política Social, Subjetividad, Identidad Generacional.AbstractThe studies about Youth have constituted one of the more systematic and structured treatment area for Social Sciences in Cuba. The present paper makes reference to the journey of these studies for more than four decades. Also it pays attention to the treatment of a concrete problem researched in the last stage: the youth’s social integration in the country and the impact of the results of those studies in the social policies to this sector and its transformations.Key words: Youth, Social Research, Social Integration, Social Policy, Subjectivity, Generational Identity.

scholarly journals Genetics and social sciences: common research challenges and opportunities for «convergence»

2020 ◽  
pp. 75-76
Author(s):  
А.Ю. Долгов
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Social Research ◽  
Genetic Research ◽  
Social Changes ◽  
Research Challenges ◽  
The Social ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Genetic Technologies

В статье рассматриваются социальные изменения, к которым приводит применение генетических технологий, обсуждается, как результаты генетических исследований влияют на язык социальных наук. Показываются «точки пересечения» генетических и социальных исследований. The article discusses the social changes resulting from the application of genetic technologies and examines how the genetic research affect the language of social sciences. The «meeting points» between genetic and social research are shown.

The Kenya National Commission on Human Rights under the 2010 Constitutional Dispensation

2018 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 205-226
Author(s):  
Bonolo Ramadi Dinokopila ◽  
Rhoda Igweta Murangiri
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Transitional Justice ◽  
National Commission ◽  
Bill Of Rights ◽  
Institutional Perspective ◽  
Post Conflict ◽  
National Human ◽  
The Status ◽  
Protection Of Human Rights

This article examines the transformation of the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights (KNCHR) and discusses the implications of such transformation on the promotion and protection of human rights in Kenya. The article is an exposition of the powers of the Commission and their importance to the realisation of the Bill of Rights under the 2010 Kenyan Constitution. This is done from a normative and institutional perspective with particular emphasis on the extent to which the UN Principles Relating to the Status of National Institutions for the promotion and protection of human rights (the Paris Principles, 1993) have been complied with. The article highlights the role of national human rights commissions in transformative and/or transitional justice in post-conflict Kenya. It also explores the possible complementary relationship(s) between the KNCHR and other Article 59 Commissions for the better enforcement of the bill of rights.

TO THE QUESTION OF RESPONSIBILITY FOR TORTURE IN THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 103-106
Author(s):  
ASTEMIR ZHURTOV ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Russian Federation ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Human Life ◽  
International Standards ◽  
World Community ◽  
The World ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Protection Of Human Rights ◽  
The Russian Federation

Cruel and inhumane acts that harm human life and health, as well as humiliate the dignity, are prohibited in most countries of the world, and Russia is no exception in this issue. The article presents an analysis of the institution of responsibility for torture in the Russian Federation. The author comes to the conclusion that the current criminal law of Russia superficially and fragmentally regulates liability for torture, in connection with which the author formulated the proposals to define such act as an independent crime. In the frame of modern globalization, the world community pays special attention to the protection of human rights, in connection with which large-scale international standards have been created a long time ago. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other international acts enshrine prohibitions of cruel and inhumane acts that harm human life and health, as well as degrade the dignity.Considering the historical experience of the past, these standards focus on the prohibition of any kind of torture, regardless of the purpose of their implementation.

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