Do Religion and Human Rights Interact?

2008 ◽  
Vol 15 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 403-411
Author(s):  
Natan Lerner
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
International Law ◽  
Significant Contribution ◽  
Critical Examination ◽  
Islamic State ◽  
World War ◽  
Considerable Part ◽  
Individual Contributions ◽  
The Subject

AbstractThe two reviewed books belong to a series of “Studies in Religion, Secular Beliefs and Human Rights” published by Martinus Nijhoff. Both constitute a significant contribution to the literature on religion and human rights that developed in the last decade, after many years of neglect of the subject. Both are collective books and the outcome of international conferences. They deal with diverse aspects of the interaction between religion and human rights and international law. A recurrent question is to what extent has religion influenced human rights or if these are a post World War II and post-Holocaust phenomenon, strictly secular. Does God Believe in Human Rights? contains an introduction and 14 essays. The volume Religion, Human Rights and International Law is subtitled A Critical Examination of Islamic State Practices, a subject to which a considerable part of the volume is devoted. It contains 18 individual contributions, in addition to introductory reflections by the editors.

Introduction: Trumping International Law?

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harold Hongju Koh
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
International Law ◽  
Global Governance ◽  
Islamic State ◽  
World War ◽  
Legal Process ◽  
Spheres Of Influence ◽  
Transnational Legal Process

How to resist President Donald Trump’s assault on international law? This introduction sketches the tripartite plan of this book. First, it discusses a counterstrategy of resistance based on transnational legal process. Second, it illustrates that counterstrategy with respect to immigration and refugees, and human rights; the Paris Climate Change Agreement, the Iran Nuclear Deal, and trade diplomacy; with countries of concern such as North Korea, Russia, and Ukraine; and with respect to America’s wars: Al Qaeda, Islamic State, Afghanistan, and Syria. Third, it reviews what broader issues are at stake in the looming battle between maintaining the post-World War II framework of Kantian global governance versus shifting to an Orwellian system of authoritarian spheres of influence.

“The heart above the ruins”: Miriam Waddington’s Poetry, the Spanish Civil War, and Jewish Canadian Literature

1969 ◽  
Vol 26 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emily Robins Sharpe
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
Civil War ◽  
Spanish Civil War ◽  
World War ◽  
Canadian Literature ◽  
The Earth ◽  
The Holocaust ◽  
The Subject ◽  
War Consequences

The Jewish Canadian writer Miriam Waddington returned repeatedly to the subject of the Spanish Civil War, searching for hope amid the ruins of Spanish democracy. The conflict, a prelude to World War II, inspired an outpouring of literature and volunteerism. My paper argues for Waddington’s unique poetic perspective, in which she represents the Holocaust as the Spanish Civil War’s outgrowth while highlighting the deeply personal repercussions of the war – consequences for women, for the earth, and for community. Waddington’s poetry connects women’s rights to human rights, Canadian peace to European war, and Jewish persecution to Spanish carnage.

The Evolving International Human Rights System

2006 ◽  
Vol 100 (4) ◽  
pp. 783-807 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Buergenthal
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
World War I ◽  
International Law ◽  
Humanitarian Law ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
World War ◽  
International Human Rights ◽  
International Human ◽  
American Society

Few, if any, branches of international law have undergone such dramatic growth and evolution as international human rights in the one hundred years since the founding of the American Society of International Law. This branch of international law did not really come into its own until after World War II. Before then, what today we would broadly characterize as human rights law consisted of diffuse or unrelated legal principles and institutional arrangements that were in one way or another designed to protect certain categories or groups of human beings. Included in this mix prior to World War I were state responsibility for injuries to aliens, international humanitarian law (as we know it today), the protection of minorities, and humanitarian intervention.

scholarly journals The International Law of Terrorist Financing

2003 ◽  
Vol 97 (2) ◽  
pp. 315-333 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ilias Bantekas
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
International Law ◽  
Hague Convention ◽  
League Of Nations ◽  
Civil Aviation ◽  
World War ◽  
Terrorist Financing ◽  
The Subject

The international dimensions of terrorism had been identified prior to World War II. Nonetheless, no agreement could be reached on an acceptable definition, or appropriate action, and the 1937 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Terrorism, adopted by the League of Nations, was ratified by a single country. The issue resurfaced in the late 1950s when private individuals perpetrated an alarming number of incidents endangering civil aviation during transnational flights. These incidents led to the adoption of three distinct conventions on the subject, namely the 1963 Tokyo Convention on Offenses and Certain Other Acts Committed on Board Aircraft, the 1970 Hague Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Seizure of Aircraft, and the 1971 Montreal Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts Against the Safety of Civil Aviation.

Individual Patrimonial Rights Under the European Human Rights System: Some Reflections on the Concepts of Possession and Dispossession of Property

1997 ◽  
Vol 25 (1-3) ◽  
pp. 87-104
Author(s):  
Alberto M. Aronovitz
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Soviet Union ◽  
Eastern Europe ◽  
International Law ◽  
Former Soviet Union ◽  
Second World War ◽  
European Countries ◽  
World War ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Second World

Both in general and in regional international law, the subject of private patrimonial rights presents a spectrum of interesting points for discussion. Amid the most notorious issues that have loomed in recent times in relation to this topic, one could refer to the dispute over the dormant accounts of Holocaust victims in Switzerland and other European countries (or, more widely, to the entire question of gold and other property stolen by the Nazis during the Second World War), to the problem of reprivatization of property in Eastern Europe, or to the issue of restitution of property taken in pursuance of communist reforms in the former Soviet Union and its former satellite countries.

scholarly journals Reconciling State Immunity with Remedies for War Victims in a Legal Pluriverse

2021 ◽  
pp. 3-35
Author(s):  
Anne Peters ◽  
Valentina Volpe
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
International Law ◽  
Human Rights Violations ◽  
World War ◽  
State Immunity ◽  
Modest Proposal ◽  
War Victims ◽  
Domestic Law

AbstractThe chapter explains the threefold aspiration of the book as an academic, societal, and diplomatic project. It introduces the three interwoven themes of international law arising in the German-Italian saga: state immunity, reparation for serious human rights violations committed during World War II, and the interplay between international and domestic law, notably the role of courts therein. The chapter proposes an approach of ‘ordered pluralism’ to coordinate this interplay, and finally tables a ‘modest proposal’ for a way out of the current impasse.

scholarly journals WATER FOR ALL? DEVELOPING A HUMAN RIGHT TO WATER IN NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL LAW

2016 ◽  
Vol 65 (4) ◽  
pp. 771-789 ◽  
Author(s):  
The Rt Hon Lady Justice Arden
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
International Law ◽  
Universal Declaration ◽  
European Convention ◽  
World War ◽  
Human Right ◽  
The World ◽  
The Way

Human rights are one of the great ideas of the twentieth century. After World War II, first Eleanor Roosevelt in relation to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (‘the Universal Declaration’), and then later the drafters of the European Convention on Human Rights (‘the European Convention’) saw human rights as the way to make the world fairer and safer.

scholarly journals Self-Determination in Regional Human Rights Law: From Kosovo to Cameroon

2011 ◽  
Vol 105 (1) ◽  
pp. 60-81 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dinah Shelton
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
International Law ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Former Yugoslavia ◽  
Human Rights Law ◽  
World War ◽  
Territorial Integrity ◽  
The Right ◽  
Right Of Self Determination

The right of self-determination has long been celebrated for bringing independence and self-government to oppressed groups, yet it remains a highly controversial norm of international law. From the breakup of the Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman Empires after World WarI to the struggle of colonial territories for independence following World War II and the later dissolution of the former Yugoslavia, there has been an unavoidable conflict between the efforts of peoples to achieve independence and the demands of existing states to preserve their territorial integrity.

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