Protecting Children’s Rights in Asian Tourism

2014 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 581-617 ◽  
Author(s):  
Afrooz Kaviani Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
East Asia ◽  
Children's Rights ◽  
Children’S Rights ◽  
South East Asia ◽  
International Human Rights Law ◽  
Human Rights Law ◽  
International Attention ◽  
Opportune Time ◽  
Protection Of Human Rights

International attention was first drawn to horrifying accounts of children being sexually exploited by foreign tourists in South East Asia in the early 1990s. This article reviews progress over the last two decades to combat this crime. With tourism reaching record levels and the relative vulnerability of children in South East Asia, I contend it is an opportune time to re-examine the response. Moving forwards, prevention initiatives must better address underlying vulnerabilities and acknowledge the indivisibility and interrelationship of children’s rights granted under international human rights law. This means broadening the response to address other disturbing violations of children’s rights in the tourism context, such as child labour and ‘orphanage tourism’. Those with the potential positively to influence the tourism environment must also be engaged in ‘child safe tourism’ as part of the wider commitment to responsible tourism and the protection of human rights.

International Human Rights Law

2018 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Children's Rights ◽  
Children’S Rights ◽  
International Human Rights Law ◽  
Human Rights Law ◽  
International Human Rights ◽  
Respective Field ◽  
Protection Of Human Rights ◽  
International Human ◽  
The Ideal

Written by leading experts in the field, International Human Rights Law explores the essentials of international human rights law, from foundational issues to substantive rights and systems of protection. It also addresses contemporary challenges, such as terrorism and poverty, ensuring students are aware of the current and future importance of these issues. A variety of perspectives bring this multifaceted and sometimes contentious subject to life, making the book the ideal companion for students and practitioners of human rights. Breadth and depth of coverage provide a thorough and complete guide for students of international human rights law. Each chapter is written by an expert in their respective field. The book includes useful features such as chapter summaries, charts, and suggestions for further reading. New to this third edition are chapters on children’s rights and the regional protection of human rights.

Using international human rights law to mobilize for children’s rights and reproductive rights in Ireland

2021 ◽  
pp. 131-182
Author(s):  
Gráinne de Búrca
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Reproductive Rights ◽  
Children's Rights ◽  
Children’S Rights ◽  
International Human Rights Law ◽  
Human Rights Law ◽  
International Human Rights ◽  
Rights Of The Child ◽  
International Human ◽  
The Government

This chapter uses the experimentalist framework to examine two processes of social change in Ireland in recent decades—children’s rights reform and reproductive rights reform—which included the engagement of domestic advocacy groups with international human rights law as a key element of those campaigns. In the case of child rights, a coalition of hitherto separate organizations and groups came together following Ireland’s ratification of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, and re-oriented their work and advocacy around the idea of children’s rights. By bringing issues before the Committee on the Rights of the Child, and requiring the government to engage repeatedly with the Committee and with the meaning and consequences in practice of the obligations taken on under the Convention, they injected fresh impetus into existing campaigns, opened a public conversation about children’s rights, and placed Ireland’s practices and attitudes towards children and the family in the context of international standards. In the case of abortion law reform which was a bitterly divisive and difficult issue in Ireland, domestic activists drew upon and engaged with a variety of international human rights institutions and laws over decades to keep pressure on the government and the state to introduce change, as well as to create public awareness of the suffering of specific women and to highlight existing and emerging international norms on reproductive rights. Both campaigns ultimately succeeded in pressing for the adoption of a range of important legislative and policy reforms.

scholarly journals Children’s Rights Are Human Rights and Why Canadian Implementation Lags Behind

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 24-47 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mona Pare
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Children's Rights ◽  
Children’S Rights ◽  
International Human Rights Law ◽  
Human Rights Law ◽  
Legal Concept ◽  
Child Rights ◽  
Legal Norms ◽  
Critical Studies ◽  
Rights Of The Child

Child rights scholarship is increasingly calling for further theorization of children’s rights, and research using the Convention on the Rights of the Child as a framework is being criticized. This paper discusses children’s rights as a legal concept that is part of wider international human rights law. It recognizes the importance of critical studies and the contribution of other disciplines, but it makes a plea for not rejecting a legal reality. Children do have rights, and these are legal norms. The paper refers to Canadian practice as an example of how the lack of recognition of children’s rights as human rights can adversely affect the place of children in a country that is known for its respect for human rights.

Part III Structural Principles, Ch.20 Democracy and the Rule of Law

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tomuschat Christian
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Rule Of Law ◽  
International Human Rights Law ◽  
Human Rights Law ◽  
The Rule Of Law ◽  
Legal Nature ◽  
Protection Of Human Rights ◽  
Structural Principles ◽  
International Instruments

This article examines the role of the rule of law and democracy in international human rights law. It discusses the legal nature and the formal recognition of the rule of law and democracy. It explains that that rule of law and democracy are elements that constitute essential pillars promoting real enjoyment of human rights but they are dependent on the general conditions prevailing within society. This article highlights the importance of the supervisory roles of international bodies in ensuring the effectiveness of the guarantees set forth in international instruments for the protection of human rights.

1. Introduction

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rhona K. M. Smith
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
International Human Rights Law ◽  
Bill Of Rights ◽  
Human Rights Law ◽  
Right To Life ◽  
International Human Rights ◽  
Human Rights Organizations ◽  
Protection Of Human Rights ◽  
The Right

This introductory chapter introduces the theme of this book, which is modern international human rights law. The book traces the unprecedented expansion in the internationally recognized rights of all people with acceptance of a human rights dimension to the quest for international peace and security following the formation of the United Nations in 1945. It examines the International Bill of Rights and the regional protection of human rights, and describes several human rights organizations including the Organization of American States and the African Union. The book discusses different types of rights, including the right to life, the right of liberty to persons, and the right to work, and also evaluates the monitoring, implementation, and enforcement of human rights laws.

scholarly journals Jusnaturalism as the foundation of the concept of international protection of human rights in H. Lauterpacht’s works

2021 ◽  
pp. 392-396
Author(s):  
O. M. Sheredʹko
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
International Law ◽  
Natural Law ◽  
International Human Rights Law ◽  
Human Rights Law ◽  
International Human Rights ◽  
Protection Of Human Rights ◽  
International Human ◽  
International Document

Prominent international law scholar H. Lauterpacht devoted most of his exploratory work to the issue of human rights in international law.This article reveals H. Lauterpacht’s views on the role of international law in the recognition and consolidation of human rights and the role of jusnaturalism as the basis of international human rights law. Analyzing the works by H. Lauterpacht, we can say that the scholar was the founder of international human rights law. Natural law and natural human rights, according to H. Lauterpacht, have been the unchanging basis of human rights of all times.The origins and periodization of jusnaturalism in the works of leading international law scholar are considered. The main statements of the representatives of the natural law concept of different times, in particular, the basic ideas in the works of Socrates, Aulis Aarnio, Francisco de Vitoria, Francisco Suarez, Alberico Gentili, Thomas Hobbes, Samuel von Pufendorf, Hugo Grotius are outlined.The views of prominent philosophers are the foundation of the concept of jusnaturalism.  Numerous supporters of the concept of natural law in different periods of history testify to its importance at every stage of human rights development.International law in this matter is a kind of second stage of recognition and protection of human rights, after recognition in the national law of states.International law is designed to consolidate the rights granted by nature to the human in the international arena.H. Lauterpacht saw the real recognition and protection of human rights by enshrining them in an international document signed by all countries of the world.The scientist proposed a draft international document on the recognition of human rights at the international level called International Bill of the Rights of Man. The provisions proposed in this document were later enshrined in international instruments such as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948, the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights of 1966 and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights of 1966.

9. International human rights law

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anders Henriksen
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Primary Sources ◽  
International Human Rights Law ◽  
Human Rights Law ◽  
Human Rights Protection ◽  
Rights Protection ◽  
Human Rights Treaties ◽  
Protection Of Human Rights ◽  
Enforcement Mechanisms ◽  
Second World

This chapter discusses the system of human rights protection that has emerged since the end of the Second World War. It begins in Section 9.2 with the primary sources of human rights law before Section 9.3 discusses the different categories of human rights. Section 9.4 discusses the obligation on states to offer protection to individuals from the acts of other private individuals. Section 9.5 provides an overview of the enforcement mechanisms in the UN and Section 9.6 focuses on the regional protection of human rights. Section 9.7 discusses the territorial scope of human rights treaties and Section 9.8 concerns the application of human rights in times of public emergency.

Part III Structural Principles, Ch.15 Subsidiarity

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Neuman Gerald L
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
International Institutions ◽  
International Human Rights Law ◽  
Human Rights Law ◽  
International Human Rights ◽  
International Protection ◽  
Protection Of Human Rights ◽  
Structural Principles ◽  
International Human

This article examines the role of the principle of subsidiarity in international human rights law. It explains the concept and the procedural doctrines of subsidiarity and considers subsidiarity of international institutions as a structural fact and the substantive subsidiarity within the state. It contends that international protection of human rights is subsidiary to national protection and that subsidiarity plays important roles in international human rights law. This article also predicts the future expansion and evolution of the role of subsidiarity in international human rights law.

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