scholarly journals More Venezuelans in Trinidad in the 21st century

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Chinyere Herbert
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Forced Migration ◽  
International Human Rights ◽  
Human Rights Organizations ◽  
Large Numbers ◽  
Present Context ◽  
Displaced People ◽  
International Human ◽  
Government Authority

AbstractVenezuelan 'asylum seekers' arriving at the coast of Trinidad enter a new reality and become a part of a world of politics and processing like most migrants do. By no fault of their own, they embody local and global tensions concerning migration policies, border control, government authority, and international human rights and protection. This paper raises questions about the complex status and identity of Venezuelan migrants in Trinidad who came seeking asylum in recent years. The results demonstrate that internationally accepted “refugee” and “asylum seeker” categorization is highly unstable in the present context due to the core economic issues underlying forced migration. In line with previous anthropological research, the study highlights the ways in which labels do not encapsulate the local and global causes underlying forced migration and displacement. While international law is well-meaning, there remains a lot to be desired in the long-term protection of displaced people. There are also geographic and economic limits of small islands to absorb large numbers of displaced persons which, to date, has not been recognized by international human rights organizations.

The role of international human rights organisations in the context of the conflict in Eastern Ukraine

2021 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 24-31
Author(s):  
Nina I. Karpachova
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Human Rights Violations ◽  
International Human Rights ◽  
Quantitative And Qualitative Research ◽  
Human Rights Organizations ◽  
High Commissioner ◽  
Protection Of Human Rights ◽  
International Human

The task of this paper is to study the role of international human rights organizations in response to the conflict taking place in eastern Ukraine. The study is based on recent reports from the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and the OSCE on Ukraine. The relevance of the stated topic is determined by the situation with human rights violations in the armed conflict in Ukraine and the significant role of international human rights organizations, making active efforts to resolve it. The purpose of this study is to determine the main aspects of the role that international organizations play in resolving this range of issues. This will help to identify potential opportunities to tackle the problem with human rights violations in the Ukrainian territories. The study combines quantitative and qualitative research of the entire spectrum of issues brought into the subject. The main results obtained are: analysis of the role and place of international human rights organizations in assessing the situation with the conflict in the Ukrainian territories and obtaining statistical information on the current status of human rights violations in these territories. The value of this paper lies in obtaining practical recommendations for finding ways to peacefully resolve the conflict in the East of Ukraine and implementing comprehensive measures to create conditions for the protection of human rights in this region

Conclusion: An Intersectional Future for Human Rights

2021 ◽  
pp. 245-250
Author(s):  
Johanna Bond
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Human Rights Violations ◽  
International Human Rights ◽  
Human Rights Organizations ◽  
International Human ◽  
Rights Discourse ◽  
Human Rights Discourse ◽  
The Way

Intersectionality has changed the way we think about human rights. It offers a complex, comprehensive, and nuanced approach that redounds to the benefit of victims seeking redress. It allows victims to articulate the multiple and intersecting forms of subordination that have negatively affected their lives. Intersectionality rejects the anemic and siloed approach to human rights that invariably fails to capture and remedy the complex, intersectional violations that characterize the lived experience of subordination for many people. Intersectionality has positively influenced human rights discourse ranging from the UN human rights treaty bodies to local human rights organizations that have incorporated the theory into their organizational missions. The theory is gaining ground in international human rights discourse, and it will continue to transform and expand our vision of appropriate remedies for human rights violations. Only by more accurately conceiving of intersectional human rights violations can we hope to provide meaningful and comprehensive remedies to those who have experienced violations of their rights.

Nongovernmental International Human Rights Organizations: The Case of Hong Kong

2014 ◽  
Vol 47 (03) ◽  
pp. 642-653
Author(s):  
Wai-man Lam
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Hong Kong ◽  
Final Analysis ◽  
Fund Raising ◽  
Hybrid Regimes ◽  
International Human Rights ◽  
Amnesty International ◽  
Human Rights Organizations ◽  
International Human ◽  
Developed World

ABSTRACTThis article examines the contributions of nongovernmental international human rights organizations (NGIHRO) in promoting a broad sense of human rights in hybrid regimes using the cases of Amnesty International Hong Kong (AIHK), Green Peace Hong Kong (GPHK), and Oxfam Hong Kong (OHK). It contends that NGIHROs have made significant contributions to public education and fund-raising in Hong Kong. However, with regard to the human rights conditions, it is erroneous to consider Hong Kong as part of the developed world. Together with other probable political considerations, doing so may have led to gaps in the organizations’ roles and functions as advocates for human rights in Hong Kong. In the final analysis, this article uses the political protests in Hong Kong to illustrate the importance of addressing the implications of demands for preserving the local identity and alternative lifestyles in the broader understanding of human rights.

scholarly journals Advocating Abortion Rights in Northern Ireland

2016 ◽  
Vol 25 (6) ◽  
pp. 716-740 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catherine O’Rourke
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Northern Ireland ◽  
International Human Rights Law ◽  
International Human Rights ◽  
Optional Protocol ◽  
Human Rights Organizations ◽  
The Family ◽  
Human Rights Advocacy ◽  
The Subject ◽  
International Human

It is frequently claimed that the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) is more significant for the cultural, rather than legal, work that it does in reframing locally contested gender issues as the subject of international human rights. While this argument is well developed in respect of violence against women, CEDAW’s cultural traction is less clear in respect of women’s right to access safe and legal abortion. This article examines the request made jointly by Alliance for Choice, the Family Planning Association Northern Ireland and the Northern Ireland Women’s European Platform to the CEDAW Committee to request an inquiry under the CEDAW Optional Protocol into access to abortion in the jurisdiction. The study found that the CEDAW framework was useful in underpinning alliances between diverse pro-choice organizations but less effective in securing the support of ‘mainstream’ human rights organizations in the jurisdiction. The article argues that the local cultural possibilities of CEDAW must be understood as embedded within both the broader structural gendered limitations of international human rights law and persistent regressive gendered sub-themes within mainstream human rights advocacy.

The Unintended Consequences of the Goldstone Commission of Inquiry on Human Rights Organizations in Israel

2019 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 877-901
Author(s):  
Hala Khoury-Bisharat
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Unintended Consequences ◽  
International Human Rights ◽  
Human Rights Organizations ◽  
Legal Literature ◽  
Human Rights Advocacy ◽  
Commissions Of Inquiry ◽  
International Human ◽  
Fact Finding

Abstract Scholarly writings on internationally constituted commissions of inquiry (COIs), as outlined in the introduction to this symposium, give inadequate attention to the effects that they might have on local disputes that these bodies are often created to address. The United Nations Fact-Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict (2009), popularly known as the Goldstone Commission, had unintended and unforeseen consequences at the domestic level. Specifically, the Commission caused a severe backlash against human rights organizations in Israel (IsHROs). This article analyses the backlash against the Commission and the effect of that backlash on human rights organizations and human rights advocacy in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory in the first few years after the release of the Goldstone report. This case study reveals how a government can use a COI intervention in an ongoing conflict to deflect criticism against it and to delegitimize local human rights organizations and, as a result, to intensify enemy–friend dynamics within a conflict. The findings of this case study thus challenge the assumption of much of the socio-legal literature that the interaction of international human rights institutions with domestic actors leads to positive human rights change. But the case study also adds a new dimension to the academic and policy literature that has been critical of the international human rights enterprise in recent years. Despite delegitimization campaigns, international funding has increased for many IsHROs, and, eventually, some groups have become even more visible and have enjoyed, internationally, a higher reputation and greater credibility. The Commission’s experience thus demonstrates that the establishment of COIs in deeply divided conflict societies can have negative, as well as positive, implications on human rights.

International Human Rights Organizations and the Palestine Question

1988 ◽  
pp. 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nabeel Abraham ◽  
Janice Terry ◽  
Cheryl Rubenberg ◽  
Lisa Hajjar ◽  
Hilary Shadroui
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
International Human Rights ◽  
Human Rights Organizations ◽  
International Human

scholarly journals DIGITAL RIGHTS OF CITIZENS AND THEIR PROTECTION IN A POST-COVID 19 SOCIETY

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 20-37
Author(s):  
Olga V. Eparkhina ◽  
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Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Personal Data ◽  
International Standards ◽  
European Countries ◽  
International Human Rights ◽  
Digital Society ◽  
Digital Rights ◽  
Human Rights Organizations ◽  
Data Policy ◽  
International Human

In article research intention of digital rights of sitizen and some problems of it perception and protection during the pandemic 2020. Weakness of low base in this sphere and actualization of right’s protection during fast digitalization of society lead us to research international standards of right’s protection and to research some possibilities of different international human rights organizations. The author presents brief field of privacy data threats in digital society in pandemic situation. There’s analyzed the experience of different countries with digital personal data and some problems in this work. There’re some differences in digital personal data policy in different countries. As a base of creation a future low about work with digital personal data and digital rights of sitizen, european countries use GDPR. But regulation of this field is take-off now, the most important role have an active public organizations and international human rights organizations.

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