When aid NGOs embrace the human rights-based approach: human rights norms, religiosity, and civic culture

Recently, the discourse on the relation between local wisdom and human rights shows its relevance. This article describes and critically examines the human rights norms and procedures with regards to common local wisdoms to remedy and redress human rights problems in South East Asian countries. It takes an example of redressing problem in rights to development and also focuses on the application of the ASEAN agreement on Disaster Management Response to contextualize role and influence of local wisdoms to manage and to mitigate disaster response within the ASEAN human rights protection. This writing also highlights that human rights based approach is needed in the implementation of the ASEAN human rights norms and mechanisms in accordance to local wisdoms of respective countries where disaster occurs.

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Refugees and Algorithmic Humanitarianism: Applying Artificial Intelligence to RSD Procedures and Immigration Decisions and Making Global Human Rights Obligations Relevant to AI Governance

International Journal on Minority and Group Rights ◽

10.1163/15718115-bja10007 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 1-69

Author(s):

Nafees Ahmad

Keyword(s):

Artificial Intelligence ◽

Human Rights ◽

Critical Thinking ◽

Asylum Seekers ◽

Data Privacy ◽

International Organisations ◽

Refugee Status ◽

Human Rights Norms ◽

Human Rights Based Approach ◽

Privacy And Confidentiality

Artificial intelligence (ai) has created algorithmic-driven humanitarianism without ethics, justice, and morality. Current ai dynamics do not protect humanity and mitigate its sufferings in refugee status determination procedures and immigration decisions, raising a host of data privacy and confidentiality issues. Data from refugees, asylum–seekers and migrants and the stateless might be deployed and manipulated for geostrategic, geopolitical, geo-engineering, medico-research, socio-economic, and demographical purposes by international organisations and governments. ai lacks anthropogenic sensitivity, critical thinking, and human traits of subjectivity and objectivity. The author ruminates on these issues by examining the application of ai and assessing its impact on the global human rights norms. The author adopts a human rights-based approach while espousing the reprogramming of algorithmic humanitarianism within new ai technologies for sustainable artificial intelligence.

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Theoretical Approaches to Higher Education

10.1093/oso/9780190863494.003.0003 ◽

2018 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Jane Kotzmann

Keyword(s):

Higher Education ◽

Human Rights ◽

Cultural Sensitivity ◽

Higher Education Policy ◽

Teaching And Learning ◽

Free Market ◽

Theoretical Models ◽

Theoretical Approaches ◽

Human Rights Norms ◽

Human Rights Based Approach

This chapter explores two general theoretical models that are used to frame higher education policy. Under the market-based approach to higher education teaching and learning, higher education is provided through the free market. This approach is based on the principles of competition, privitisation, and absence of government intervention. In contrast, a human rights-based approach to higher education seeks to translate the human right to higher education and operationalise it. The principles of a human rights-based approach include integration and mainstreaming of human rights norms, accountability, non-discrimination and equality, participation, dignity, interdependence and indivisibility, and cultural sensitivity. The chapter evaluates the theoretical effectiveness of these two models.

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A Human Rights-Based Approach to Foreign Agricultural Investment in Uganda

African Journal of International and Comparative Law ◽

10.3366/ajicl.2019.0272 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 27 (2) ◽

pp. 268-291 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Jean-Claude N. Ashukem

Keyword(s):

Human Rights ◽

Legal Framework ◽

Local Communities ◽

Agricultural Investment ◽

Foreign Agricultural ◽

The Government ◽

Human Rights Norms ◽

Human Rights Based Approach

The use of human rights approaches in the context of development-related activities appears to be the most appropriate means to observe respect for and the protection of people's rights as states are required to adhere to human rights norms and standards. This article argues for the adoption of a rights-based approach within the framework of foreign agricultural investment activities in Uganda in order to ensure respect for, the protection of and the fulfilment of the fundamental human rights of local communities. It provides an exposition of the procedural and substantive rights which are contained in the relevant international and regional legal instruments and which need to be taken into account in such a rights-based approach. It also distils the relevant benchmarks to be used by the government of Uganda as the standards to be achieved in order to ensure the observance and protection of people's rights, especially with regard to the negotiation and implementation of foreign agricultural investment land deals in Uganda. It then compares the Ugandan legal framework against the distilled benchmarks to ascertain if and to what extent the legal framework conforms to these requirements with regard to regulating foreign agricultural investment activities. Based on the distilled minimum human rights requirements and the obligation they bestow on states, the article concludes that in order for the government of Uganda to properly and effectively respect, protect and fulfil local communities' human rights, it is crucially important that it should consider these requirements and fulfil them during the regulation and implementation of foreign agricultural investment land deals in the country.

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A Human-Rights Based Approach to the Economic Security of Older People in Moldova

10.1596/26039 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

María Eugenia Dávalos ◽

Bethany Brown ◽

Alaka Holla ◽

Tu Chi Nguyen ◽

William Seitz ◽

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Keyword(s):

Human Rights ◽

Older People ◽

Economic Security ◽

Human Rights Based Approach

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Reconciling Rights and Obligations

American Journal of Islam and Society ◽

10.35632/ajis.v20i3-4.528 ◽

2003 ◽

Vol 20 (3-4) ◽

pp. 140-172

Author(s):

Pernille Ironside

Keyword(s):

Human Rights ◽

Due Process ◽

Common Law ◽

International Standards ◽

Freedom Of Religion ◽

Northern Nigeria ◽

Law System ◽

Constitutional Legality ◽

Human Rights Norms ◽

Criminal Matters

This article examines the debate concerning the recent reinstatement of Shari`ah law with respect to criminal matters in Northern Nigeria. The discussion explores the inherent challenges in reconciling the equally entrenched and passionate views of pro-Shari`ah supporters on their right to freedom of religion with those that question its application in terms of human rights norms and obligations, and its constitutional legality. The analysis concludes that Shari`ah laws can coexist with Nigeria’s common law system and remain relevant in the context of Islam, provided that its principles are adapted and modernized to comport with international standards for due process and are interpreted and applied consistently.

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