Special Issue Human Rights: New Possibilities/New Problems

PurposeThis “thought paper” is written by the special issue editors as a part of the five papers accepted and published in response to the special issue call for papers on logistics and SCM in the context of relief for refugees and internally displaced persons (IDPs) in theJournal of Humanitarian Logistics and Supply Chain Management. The purpose of this paper is to introduce the special issue on “refugee logistics” and analyse the nature and challenges of displacement from a displaced person’s perspective. The paper also argues for a more critical appreciation of the role and value that research in logistics, operations and supply chain management (LOSCM) can play in the delivery of services and care for refugees and IDPs from the perspective of preparedness and logistics planning of humanitarian organisations. The paper further outlines basic challenges to undertaking innovative, boundary pushing valuable and impactful research on “refugee logistics” given the difficult ideological, political and policy context in which “refugee logistics research” will be undertaken. The paper also advocates for more critical research in humanitarian logistics (HL), that explicitly acknowledges its ontological, epistemological and methodological limitations even when ethically sound. The paper concludes by suggesting a future research agenda for this new sub-field of humanitarian logistics research.Design/methodology/approachConceptual paper utilising viewpoints, literature reviews as well as original ideas and thoughts of the authors.FindingsThe new field of “refugee logistics research” is important. It has been neglected in humanitarian logistics research for too long. Hence, there needs to be more research in this sub-field of humanitarian logistics.Research limitations/implicationsThis is a “thought paper”. It is the basic conceptual ideas of the authors. While it is not based on empirical work or data collection, it is based on a comprehensive literature research and analysis.Social implicationsThis paper advocates for the universal human rights of IDPs and refugees and their dignity, and how LOSCM can contribute to upholding such dignity.Originality/valueIt contributes indirectly to logistics policy and refugee policy as well as logistics service quality and advocacy for human rights and human dignity.

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Extraterritoriality of EU law and human rights after Lisbon: The case of trade and public procurement

Europe and the World A law review ◽

10.14324/111.444.ewlj.2018.10 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Samantha Velluti ◽

Vassilis P. Tzevelekos

Keyword(s):

Human Rights ◽

Public Procurement ◽

Legal Order ◽

International Human Rights Law ◽

Eu Law ◽

Human Rights Law ◽

Special Issue ◽

International Human Rights ◽

International Human ◽

The Eu

The paper introduces the theme and topics of this Special Issue on the extraterritoriality of EU law and human rights in the fields of trade and public procurement since the entry into force of the 2009 Treaty of Lisbon. It briefly explores the meaning of extraterritoriality in international (human rights) law and the EU legal order highlighting the complexity of such notion in both legal systems. In so doing, it provides the context and focus of analysis of the collection of papers that make up this Special Issue, which addresses a number of topical questions concerning the extraterritorial conduct of the EU, as well as the extraterritorial effects of EU law in those specific fields, from the perspective of human rights.

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Addressing the Implementation Crisis: Securing Reparation and Righting Wrongs

Journal of Human Rights Practice ◽

10.1093/jhuman/huaa005 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 12 (1) ◽

pp. 1-21

Author(s):

Rachel Murray

Keyword(s):

Human Rights ◽

Civil Society ◽

Research Council ◽

Social Research ◽

Multidimensional Approach ◽

Special Issue ◽

Specific Approach ◽

Context Specific ◽

Supranational Institutions ◽

State Context

Abstract There has been increasing attention to the implementation of decisions of human rights bodies by scholars and by supranational institutions, states, litigants, and civil society. A project funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) tracked the implementation by nine states of decisions adopted by human rights courts and commissions in the European, African and Inter-American systems and by select UN treaty bodies. This article summarizes the methodology and findings of the Project and in so doing forms an introduction to a series of articles and practice notes published in this special issue. A range of factors are identified from the research which influence implementation and stress the importance of a multifaceted, multidimensional approach to the issues. Implementation is not automatic and requires mechanisms, processes, and the involvement of actors (national and supranational) for states to comply with the reparations ordered in the decision. A case-by-case, state-by-state, context-specific approach is needed, tailored to the circumstances. This has implications for the manner in which litigants present their submissions, engage with state and supranational bodies and for the latter in terms of their roles and relationships with the various actors.

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Introduction to the special issue on human rights in higher education

Journal of Human Rights ◽

10.1080/14754835.2019.1617122 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 18 (3) ◽

pp. 275-279

Author(s):

Sarita Cargas ◽

Glenn Mitoma

Keyword(s):

Higher Education ◽

Human Rights ◽

Special Issue

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Introduction toAsian Ethnicity’s special issue on ethnicities, governance, and human rights

Asian Ethnicity ◽

10.1080/14631369.2014.880586 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 15 (2) ◽

pp. 148-156 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Steve On ◽

Chih-yu Shih

Keyword(s):

Human Rights ◽

Special Issue

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Journal of the International Commission of Jurists. December 1967, Vol. VIII, No. 2. International Year for Human Rights, 1968, special issue, part one

International Affairs ◽

10.1093/ia/44.2.317 ◽

1968 ◽

Vol 44 (2) ◽

pp. 317-317

Keyword(s):

Human Rights ◽

International Commission ◽

Special Issue

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The Pervasive Constitution: The Constitution Outside of the Courts

Federal Law Review ◽

10.1177/0067205x20955064 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 48 (4) ◽

pp. 437-454

Author(s):

Gabrielle Appleby ◽

Vanessa MacDonnell ◽

Eddie Synot

Keyword(s):

Human Rights ◽

Indigenous Peoples ◽

Power Dynamics ◽

Constitutional Change ◽

Special Issue ◽

Complex Dynamic ◽

Governance Practices ◽

Political Dimensions

The constitution pervades the governance practices of a state, far beyond its application and interpretation in the courts. This Special Issue draws together a field of scholarship that considers these extrajudicial dimensions of constitutional practice to reveal a very different constitution to the juridified version. It is a more complex, dynamic and pervasive vision of the constitution, focused on the ongoing relationships of a broader set of constitutional institutions and actors. These relationships are mediated by the legal and political dimensions of the constitution and by the narratives and symbolism that grow up around it. In this introduction, we explore three themes of the pervasive constitution: the importance of constitutional narratives and symbols, the multiplicity of constitutional actors and the relational nature of constitutionalism. This recalibrated understanding of the constitution reveals constitutional actors and power dynamics that are often invisible in more traditional accounts of constitutionalism. This recalibration is particularly important in addressing contemporary constitutional challenges. In settler systems hoping to decolonise, courts have proven important but insufficient sites of constitutional change, and it is in political spaces that new constitutional stories can be told, stories which acknowledge the full sovereignty of Indigenous peoples and their claim to territory. In countries experiencing democratic backsliding, extrajudicial actors have been championed as the backstops to democracy and human rights. We argue that only by understanding the space outside the courts will we appreciate the breadth of new constitutional possibilities.

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