The drone imprint: literature in the age of UAVs

Race & Class ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 60 (3) ◽  
pp. 59-72
Author(s):  
Barbara Harlow
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Due Process ◽  
International Human Rights Law ◽  
Habeas Corpus ◽  
University Of Texas ◽  
South Asian Literature ◽  
Dialectical Relationship ◽  
Drone Warfare ◽  
The University ◽  
Relationship Of

This article is composed of the schema of Barbara Harlow’s final but unfinished book project, The Drone Imprint: literature in the age of UAVs. Harlow had drafted a proposal, given a version of it as the keynote address at the South Asian Literature Association meeting at the University of Texas, Austin in 2016, and taught many of the materials in it as an undergraduate studies signature course. This piece draws on her proposal, expands it with notes she made and parts of composed text for the talks, and attempts to flesh out and complete the citations. It reveals Harlow’s ongoing commitment to thinking through the dialectical relationship of literary and cultural studies to both the political exigencies of the present and the long histories of Empire. The project is instructive in the ways that it concatenates an interdisciplinary archive – human rights reports, novels, films, diaries, law cases, journalism – to elucidate both what drone warfare is doing to problems of literary and cultural representation and how literary modes are being redeployed in the understanding of the phenomenology of the drone. The project explores with some alarm and outrage what drone warfare is doing to questions of accountability and impunity in international human rights law, ‘kill lists’ as part of US foreign policy, questions of citizenship, habeas corpus and due process in the compressions and attenuations of sovereignty that UAVs accentuate.

scholarly journals The Role of Customary International Law in Regulating the Activities of Armed Groups in the Field of Human Rights

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (5) ◽  
pp. 195-204
Author(s):  
R. I. Sharipov
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
International Law ◽  
Armed Conflicts ◽  
International Human Rights Law ◽  
Armed Groups ◽  
Customary International Law ◽  
Protection Of Human Rights ◽  
Jus Cogens ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
Peremptory Norms

Over the past decades, there has been a significant increase in the number of armed groups involved in armed conflicts around the world, as well as in their impact on the rights and freedoms of the population under their control. Facing various situations of systematic violations of human rights by non-state actors, experts in the field of international human rights law began to consider the theoretical justification for the mandatory nature of the provisions on the observance and protection of human rights for armed groups. In this regard, a number of scholars have turned to the theory of customary international law, the acceptability of which is being investigated by the author of this paper. The author examines the provisions underlying this theory and the persuasiveness of the argumentation used by its supporters. Based on an analysis of the nature of customary international law, its structural elements, their interpretation by the UN International Court of Justice in its decisions and the relationship of customary international law with peremptory norms of jus cogens, the author concludes that the theory under consideration is currently unable to explain the existence of obligations of armed groups in the field of human rights.

Title to Territory and JurisdictionThree and a Half Models

2020 ◽  
pp. 159-181
Author(s):  
Lea Raible
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
International Law ◽  
Political Power ◽  
International Human Rights Law ◽  
Human Rights Law ◽  
International Human Rights ◽  
International Human ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

The very term ‘extraterritoriality’ implies that territory is significant. So far, however, my argument focuses on jurisdiction rather than territory. This chapter adds clarifications in this area. It examines the relationship of jurisdiction in international human rights law, whether understood as political power or not, and title to territory in international law. To this end, I start by looking at what international law has to say about jurisdiction as understood in international human rights law, and territory, respectively. The conclusion of the survey is that the two concepts serve different normative purposes, are underpinned by different values, and that they are thus not the same. Accordingly, an account of their relationship should be approached with conceptual care.

The Cultural Affiliations and Chronological Position of the Clear Fork Focus

1947 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 97-109 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Charles Kelley
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Temporal Distribution ◽  
University Of Texas ◽  
Projectile Points ◽  
Additional Information ◽  
Central Texas ◽  
The University ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
Archaeological Cultures ◽  
The Relationship

The importance of the Clear Fork Focus as a pre-pottery archaeological complex of north-central Texas has become generally known to archaeologists through the industry of its discoverer and principal proponent, Dr. Cyrus N. Ray, of Abilene, Texas. Unfortunately, the relationship of this complex to other and comparable archaeological cultures of Texas has been largely neglected and some regrettable misinformation in regard to its chronological position has been widely disseminated. In this paper the cultural affiliations and age of the Clear Fork Focus will be discussed in terms of the evidence presented by its discoverers and from the standpoint of new data derived from large scale excavations completed by the University of Texas in the terraces of the Colorado River near Austin, Texas. Additional information obtained by the writer through study of some twelve thousand projectile points from central, south, and western Texas, and their geographic and temporal distribution also is used.

A Need for Transnational Non Bis in Idem Protection in International Human Rights Law

2005 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 329-347 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander Poels
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Due Process ◽  
International Human Rights Law ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Human Rights Law ◽  
Human Right ◽  
International Human Rights ◽  
International Human ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Domestic Law

Although safeguards for the individual human right guarantees for protection against double jeopardy are strongly entrenched in international and domestic law as well as widely reflected in State practice, such protection is generally limited in scope and applicability to surrender or extradition procedures. Where criminal offenders face courts of a State after having been prosecuted and punished or acquitted by a court of another State, the absence of transnational non bis in idem protection constitutes a serious lacuna in international human rights law. Although legislative and judicial initiatives are being undertaken – notably under the aegis of the European Union – to remedy this lacuna, the international community must incontestably act upon this need for individuals' protection against abuses of power and breaches of due process through the amendment or complementing of the classical international human rights conventions.

12. Education and work

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Coomans Fons
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
International Human Rights Law ◽  
Human Rights Law ◽  
Right To Education ◽  
International Human Rights ◽  
Cultural Rights ◽  
Right To Work ◽  
The Right ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter discusses two human rights that belong to the category of economic, social, and cultural rights: the right to education and the right to work. It explains how the modern view of the nature of economic, social, and cultural rights can be applied to these rights. The chapter discusses the sources of the rights under international human rights law, their main features, and components; the obligations resulting from each right; and the relationship of each right with other human rights. Both rights are crucial for the ability to live a life in dignity and develop one’s personality.

scholarly journals DERECHOS DE LA PERSONA HUMANA: EL DERECHO DEL EXTRANJERO PRIVADO DE LIBERTAD A LA ASISTENCIA CONSULAR

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (55) ◽  
pp. 53
Author(s):  
Vera Lúcia VIEGAS-LIQUIDATO
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
International Law ◽  
Due Process ◽  
Human Person ◽  
Fundamental Rights ◽  
Advisory Opinion ◽  
International Human Rights Law ◽  
Derechos Humanos ◽  
Palabras Clave ◽  
Due Process Of Law

RESUMENEn este trabajo se hará inicialmente una evolución histórica del Derecho Internacional de los Derechos Humanos, tomando el marco teórico referencial de Karel Vasak, Norberto Bobbio y Antonio Augusto Cançado Trindade, para abordar la discusión del derecho internacional de los derechos humanos en generaciones / dimensiones. A continuación se abordarán el estado de arte, límites y desafíos del derecho fundamental del extranjero privado de la libertad a la asistencia consular. Se plantearán cuestiones como, si al privado de la libertad no se le ofreció asistencia consular, qué implicaciones generaría para la garantía del debido proceso legal e incluso la posibilidad de la nulidad de una sentencia penal condenatoria. Se analizará jurisprudencia internacional al respecto, incluida la opinión consultiva de la Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos. PALABRAS-CLAVE: Derecho Internacional de los Derechos Humanos; Derechos Fundamentales de la Persona Humana; Derecho a la asistencia consular; Garantías del debido proceso legal. RESUMONeste trabalho far-se-á, inicialmente, uma evolução histórica do direito internacional dos direitos humanos, utilizando-se o referencial teórico de Karel Vasak, Norberto Bobbio e Antonio Augusto Cançado Trindade, para pautar a discussão do direito internacional dos direitos humanos em gerações/dimensões. Em seguida, analisar-seão os desafios, limites, estado de arte, do direito fundamental do preso estrangeiro à assistência consular. Levantar-se-ão questões como, caso ao preso estrangeiro não lhe tenha sido oferecida a assistência consular, as implicações que isso geraria para as garantias do devido processo legal e até mesmo para a nulidade de uma sentença penal condenatória. Considerar-se-á jurisprudência internacional a respeito, incluindo a opinião Consultiva da Corte Interamericana de Direitos Humanos. PALAVRAS-CHAVE: Direito Internacional dos Direitos Humanos; Direitos Fundamentais da Pessoa Humana; Direito à assistência consular; Garantias do devido processo legal. ABSTRACTIn this work, initially, a historical evolution of the international law of the human rights will be made, using the theoretical reference of Karel Vasak, Norberto Bobbio and Antonio Augusto Cançado Trindade, to guide the discussion of international law of the human rights in generations / dimensions. Afterwards, will be analyzed the challenges, limits, state of art, the fundamental right of the foreign detainee to consular assistance. Questions will arise as, if the detainee has not been notified of his right to consular assistance, the implications that this would generate for the guarantees of the due process of law. International law cases will be considered, including the Advisory Opinion of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. KEYWORDS: International Human Rights Law; Fundamental Rights of the Human Person; Right to consular assistance; Guarantees of the due process of law.

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