Monitoring of simulated clandestine graves of dismembered victims using UAVs, electrical tomography, and GPR over one year to aid investigations of human rights violations in Colombia, South America

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carlos Martín Molina ◽  
Kristopher Wisniewski ◽  
Vivienne Heaton ◽  
Jamie K. Pringle ◽  
Edier Fernando Avila ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
South America ◽  
Human Rights Violations ◽  
Electrical Tomography ◽  
Clandestine Graves ◽  
One Year

How the Victims in Baluchistan Conflict were reported? Comparison of News Reports of Dawn and News International (2016)

2020 ◽  
Vol 03 (02) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hamid Ullah Khan
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Print Media ◽  
Human Rights Violations ◽  
News Reports ◽  
Analysis Technique ◽  
One Year ◽  
Rights Issues

The Baluchistan conflict has affected the whole province in all respects. The effects of the massive human loss reached to nearly all the families; the sky also did see the human rights violations and the collateral damages affected the economy as well. The study investigates the Baluchistan conflict through content analysis technique from the perspective of human rights journalism model developed by Shaw and framed the study by applying HRJ and HWJ. The two widely read English dailies Dawn and the News International were analyzed for one year from January 2016 to December 2016. The English Print media in Pakistan usually projects the basic human rights issues and so has projected violation of victims’ rights in Baluchistan as well as provided platforms for solution of such issues. The English print media also played its due role from the perspective of human rights journalism and human wrong journalism in Baluchistan conflict. The Dawn covered more victims’ stories but framed them in less HRJ perspectives highlighted the victims, provided the solutions while the News International covered less victims’ stories but framed them in more HRJ perspectives, reported the victims’ issues and provided solutions..

Social representations of human rights violations: Further evidence

2001 ◽  
Vol 60 (2) ◽  
pp. 89-98 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alain Clémence ◽  
Thierry Devos ◽  
Willem Doise
Keyword(s):  
Cluster Analysis ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Costa Rica ◽  
Young People ◽  
Social Representations ◽  
Social Reality ◽  
Questionnaire Study ◽  
Human Rights Violations ◽  
High Tolerance ◽  
Individual Actions

Social representations of human rights violations were investigated in a questionnaire study conducted in five countries (Costa Rica, France, Italy, Romania, and Switzerland) (N = 1239 young people). We were able to show that respondents organize their understanding of human rights violations in similar ways across nations. At the same time, systematic variations characterized opinions about human rights violations, and the structure of these variations was similar across national contexts. Differences in definitions of human rights violations were identified by a cluster analysis. A broader definition was related to critical attitudes toward governmental and institutional abuses of power, whereas a more restricted definition was rooted in a fatalistic conception of social reality, approval of social regulations, and greater tolerance for institutional infringements of privacy. An atypical definition was anchored either in a strong rejection of social regulations or in a strong condemnation of immoral individual actions linked with a high tolerance for governmental interference. These findings support the idea that contrasting definitions of human rights coexist and that these definitions are underpinned by a set of beliefs regarding the relationships between individuals and institutions.

American and Canadian Civil Actions Alleging Human Rights Violations Abroad by Oil and Gas Companies

2008 ◽  
Vol 45 (3) ◽  
pp. 653 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan Horlick ◽  
Joe Cyr ◽  
Scott Reynolds ◽  
Andrew Behrman
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
The United States ◽  
Human Rights Violations ◽  
Law Of Nations ◽  
Forum Non Conveniens ◽  
The Government ◽  
Oil And Gas Companies ◽  
Political Question ◽  
The U.S

Under the United States Alien Tort Statute, which permits non-U.S. citizens to bring lawsuits in U.S. courts for human rights violations that are violations of the law of nations, plaintiffs have filed claims against multinational oil and gas corporations for the direct or complicit commission of such violations carried out by the government of the country in which the corporation operated. In addition to exercising jurisdiction over U.S. corporations, U.S. courts have exercised jurisdiction in cases involving non-U.S. defendants for alleged wrongful conduct against non-U.S. plaintiffs committed outside the U.S.The exercise of jurisdiction by U.S. courts over non-U.S. defendants for alleged wrongful conduct against non-U.S. plaintiffs committed outside of the U.S. raises serious questions as to the jurisdictional foundation on which the power of U.S. courts to adjudicate them rests. Defences that foreign defendants can raise against the exercise of jurisdiction by the U.S. courts are an objection to the extraterritorial assertion of jurisdiction, the act of state doctrine, the political question doctrine, forum non conveniens, and the principle of comity. These defences are bolstered by the support of the defendant’s home government and other governments.

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