scholarly journals New Zealand: Country Report on Human Rights

2009 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 57
Author(s):  
Natalie Baird ◽  
Susan Glazebrook ◽  
Sasha Holden
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Rule Of Law ◽  
Language Education ◽  
Indigenous Rights ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
Access To Justice ◽  
Country Report ◽  
The Rule Of Law ◽  
The Right

This article provides a country report on the status of human rights in New Zealand. The article covers New Zealand's adherence to the rule of law, culture and language, education system, health system and environmental rights. The authors draw conclusions from each section: New Zealand's commitment to the rule of law is generally strong, albeit with concerns regarding access to justice. Positive developments were undertaken regarding language but disappointing in its indigenous rights. The right to education is generally secure, but some vulnerabilities remain. New Zealand has a generally favourable health services system. Finally, although New Zealand's legal framework does not recognise the right to an environment of a particular quality, the Resource Management Act 1991 provides a strong participatory framework.  

New Zealand: Country Report on Human Rights

2009 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 57
Author(s):  
Natalie Baird ◽  
Susan Glazebrook ◽  
Sasha Holden
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Rule Of Law ◽  
Language Education ◽  
Indigenous Rights ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
Access To Justice ◽  
Country Report ◽  
The Rule Of Law ◽  
The Right

This article provides a country report on the status of human rights in New Zealand. The article covers New Zealand's adherence to the rule of law, culture and language, education system, health system and environmental rights. The authors draw conclusions from each section: New Zealand's commitment to the rule of law is generally strong, albeit with concerns regarding access to justice. Positive developments were undertaken regarding language but disappointing in its indigenous rights. The right to education is generally secure, but some vulnerabilities remain. New Zealand has a generally favourable health services system. Finally, although New Zealand's legal framework does not recognise the right to an environment of a particular quality, the Resource Management Act 1991 provides a strong participatory framework.  

scholarly journals Ensuring the exercise of the right to access to justice as a mandatory attribute of a constitutional state

2021 ◽  
pp. 311-316
Author(s):  
Y. І. Sverba
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Rule Of Law ◽  
Case Law ◽  
The State ◽  
European Convention ◽  
Access To Justice ◽  
Special Role ◽  
The Rule Of Law ◽  
Constitutional State ◽  
The Right

The article analyzes both the positive and negative obligations of the state regarding the right to access to justice. Based on the principle of separation of powers into legislative, executive and judicial, emphasis on the need for real justice in constitutional state, as well as ensuring its accessibility, is made. Some aspects of the European Court of Human Rights case-law in the field of access to justice are considered. It is also hypothesized that the ECtHR case-law ensures the dynamic development of the European Convention on Human Rights provisions. In particular, the article analyses several ECtHR decisions which explicitly state that the Convention is intended to guarantee not theoretical and illusory, but practical and effective rights («Matthews v. The United Kingdom», «Bellet v. France and others»). The decision of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine is studied, which, inter alia, reveals the special role of constitutional and administrative proceedings in ensuring the rule of law. The obligation of the state to ensure equal access to justice is stated, since the purpose of justice is to protect violated, disputed rights, freedoms that belong directly to the person applying to the court for their protection. Therefore, the exercise of the right guaranteed by part two of Article 55 of the Constitution of Ukraine to appeal court decisions, actions or omissions of subjects of power must be ensured in accordance with the stated purpose of justice. At the same time, this right connects to the opportunity of every person to justify before the court conviction in the illegality of interference by the subjects of power in rights and freedoms concerned. The article analyses the decision of the Grand Chamber of the Supreme Court, which reveals the legal nature of ensuring access to justice in criminal, or administrative offenses. It is stated that the attributes of the rule of law are not limited to the justice and access to it, and their autonomous existence is impossible in a society where other democratic institutions do not work. Keywords: the rule of law, justice, access to justice, constitutional state, human rights, legal aid.

scholarly journals Protection of Prisoner’s Human Rights in Prisons through the Guidelines of Rule of Law

2016 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 71
Author(s):  
Ebad Rouhi ◽  
Leila Raisi Dezaki ◽  
Mahmoud Jalali Karveh
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Rule Of Law ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
Fundamental Rights ◽  
Educational Management ◽  
The Rule Of Law ◽  
Prison Management ◽  
Fundamental Rights And Freedoms ◽  
The Right

Punishing the criminals is one of the criminal justice mechanisms to compensation and reparation for victims and society. In this regards some of the punishments are determined by criminal justice systems in every society. Imprisonment is one of these penalties which specified in this regard and through this punishment the convicted persons are detained in prison. However, the guilty is sentenced to prison and restriction of his or her liberties, but she or he has fundamental rights and freedoms that must be protected even if in prison and has the right to how to be punished. All of these rights and freedoms are protected by the rule of law. This issue means that how to be punished is restricted under the definite principles which have to be exercised when the retribution and punishment is ongoing. This matter of criminal law and criminal justice is considered as right on how to be punished. The area of this right and authority of prison’s heads and its personnel is determined by law. In order to do that and protection of prisoner’s human rights and regulating manner with them and also for prison management, the rule of law provided a set of guidelines. According to these guidelines prison is managed in the legal framework as well as in this context the prisoner’s rights are protected effectively. These guidelines are provided in some of international legal instruments. This article investigates these guidelines and in respect of their human rights aspects which related to the environmental, educational, management, health care, personnel and humanistic dimensions of imprisonment these guidelines and instructions are studied and analyzed.

scholarly journals Evaluating ‘Life Steeped in Power’: Non-Domination, the Rule of Law and Spatial Restrictions for Irregular Migrants

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lieneke Slingenberg
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Rule Of Law ◽  
Practical Relevance ◽  
Human Rights Law ◽  
The Rule Of Law ◽  
Irregular Migrants ◽  
Normative Framework ◽  
Protection Of Human Rights ◽  
State Coercion ◽  
The Right

Abstract Irregular migrants in Europe are increasingly subjected to state coercion, surveillance and spatial restrictions, such as containment, dispersal and forced transfers. Lawyers usually evaluate such practices in the light of human rights law, which only provides limited protection. For this reason, I propose an alternative normative framework to evaluate and assess coercive state practices towards irregular migrants: the concept of freedom as non-domination. In this article, I conceptualize non-domination from a rule of law perspective. To this end, I start from Lovett’s procedural account of arbitrariness; and complement this with Benton’s focus on unaccountable power and Palombella’s argument for ‘duality of law’. In the second part of this article, I apply this normative framework to coercive practices in shelters for irregular migrants in the Netherlands. This allows me to demonstrate the practical relevance and consequences of the theory. It discloses how the protection of freedom as non-domination, conceptualized from a rule of law perspective, sets more demanding criteria for the (courts of) law than the protection of human rights. At the same time, it does not require non-interference or elaborate positive obligations from the state. For irregular migrants, who do not have the right to reside in the territory, but who are entirely under the control of state power, non-domination as conceptualized in this paper provides, in my view, a necessary framework of review that ensures a kind of protection that is currently lacking.

scholarly journals A Judicial Review of the De Facto Detention of Foreigners in Turkey

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 143-153
Author(s):  
Gamze Ovacik
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Rule Of Law ◽  
Judicial Review ◽  
Case Law ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
Court Decisions ◽  
Administrative Practices ◽  
The Rule Of Law ◽  
European Court ◽  
Domestic Law

The term, de facto detention, refers to instances in which foreigners are held or deprived of their liberty usually with a view to preventing their entry into a country or expelling them from a country, but without implementing a legally prescribed detention regime that satisfies the criteria of the rule of law. The first type of de facto detention occurs when provisions regulating detention are absent or deficient in the legal framework. The second type takes place when domestic law sufficiently regulates detention regimes; however, the law is not duly implemented in practice. This article examines judicial practices in Turkey in both categories of de facto detention, analysing 37 Turkish court decisions with supporting case law from the European Court of Human Rights. Focusing on case law makes it possible both to track deficiencies in administrative practices and to analyse judicial response as a tool for rectifying unlawful administrative practices.

scholarly journals Rule of Law

2015 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 38-50 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gopala Anjinappa
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Rule Of Law ◽  
Good Governance ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
Global Dimension ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
The Rule Of Law ◽  
Primary Means ◽  
Economic Imbalances

The world as a whole has developed in the global dimension and has flourished with prosperity. But still one can see the hurdles in the development process. One of such impediments is poverty and the other is the environmental problems. Poverty results in violation of human rights. The rule of law is crucial and is one of the means to strengthen these hurdles. One of such escalation is on the environmental development wherein it strives for achieving sustainable development and eradication of poverty. The rule of law plays a vital role in reducing extreme poverty with emphasizing on human rights. It is the very essence and the core of Good Governance. Without the principles of the rule of law, it will not be enough to achieve sustainable development and eradication of poverty. The rule of law strengthens to provide intense legal framework. It works as an effective mechanism for the enforcement of law. Innovative methods are undertaken to aim in the enforcement of sustainable development and eradication of poverty. The paper implies on effectiveness of the rule of law in providing sustainable development policies. It analyses the legal framework in India that contributes in maintaining economic imbalances. The paper explores the role of Indian Judiciary and the classic Judgments of Supreme Court of India. Keeping in view the importance of sustainable development and eradication of poverty, the paper contributes to explore the significance of the rule of law in achieving the objective of the nation. “Development is one of the primary means of improving the environment for living, or providing food, water, sanitation and shelter, of making the deserts green and the mountains habitable” (Indira Gandhi, 1972).

Conclusions on Good Governance

2019 ◽  
pp. 270-280
Author(s):  
Henk Addink
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Rule Of Law ◽  
Legal Theory ◽  
Good Governance ◽  
Building Blocks ◽  
Theory Approach ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Legal Concept ◽  
The Rule Of Law ◽  
The Right

Good governance is a legal concept and a cornerstone of the modern state and presented in the book as the third cornerstone of a modern stone (alongside the rule of law and democracy). We concluded in relation to the development of the concept of good governance in part I that principles of good governance can only be legal principles when they have been somehow codified legal effect. The good governance principles became more concrete by enumerating six groups of principles (properness, transparency, participation, effectiveness, accountability, and human rights) which are found in many documents of national, regional, and international context. From the legal theory approach on good governance we discussed the character of these principles. In part II we specified the principles of good governance and starting with the principle of properness, which has also been developed under the name of the principle of natural justice. The second, the principle of transparency, is connected to the principle of participation which both have roots in the concept of democracy. The principles of effectiveness and accountability both have a relationship to the institutional structure and functioning. The last principle is the human rights principle which is linked to the rule of law but also to democracy. Several principles of good governance were already developed in regulations and in codes which are the building blocks for the development of the right to good governance. The implementation of good governance and the comparison between countries were explained in Part III. After that, the regional level was discussed—the European Union and the Council of Europe were chosen as models as far as it was comparable. The last chapter was about the implementation on the international level.

Ensuring Human Rights in Criminal Proceedings in the Context of a Pandemic

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
pp. 99-104
Author(s):  
O. V. Kachalova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Rule Of Law ◽  
Access To Justice ◽  
Criminal Proceedings ◽  
Public Interests ◽  
The Rule Of Law ◽  
Emergency Situations ◽  
General Terms ◽  
Private And Public

The coronavirus pandemic has put a number of legal issues on the agenda of the world community – how to ensure the rule of law in the face of the need to save the lives and health of many people, how to achieve a reasonable balance in the ratio of various human rights in a pandemic situation, how to determine the criteria for proportionality of restrictions on essential human rights. The criminal justice authorities and courts have a serious task to ensure human rights, achieve the effectiveness of criminal proceedings and access to justice in the context of the coronavirus pandemic, on the one hand, and take the necessary measures to ensure the safety of persons involved in criminal proceedings, including their own, from the threat of COVID-19 infection, on the other. Measures that restrict human rights in the context of a pandemic must be implemented in accordance with the principles of the rule of law, respect for human rights, the rule of law, legal certainty and proportionality. Proportionality can be established by determining a reasonable balance of private and public interests in each particular situation, through an assessment of the affected interests in terms of their significance. In General terms, the rights and freedoms that provide the most significant benefits are given priority. The criteria for determining a reasonable balance between private and public interests and for resolving an emerging conflict of human rights are determined taking into account the immediate circumstances of the case (the epidemiological situation, the state of health of participants in the process, the urgency and significance of the proceedings for participants in criminal proceedings and the interests of justice, the ability to ensure the necessary sanitary and epidemiological requirements). The coronavirus pandemic has put on the agenda the issue of creating a strategy for the transformation of criminal justice institutions in emergency situations, when the normal mode of criminal proceedings is impossible due to objective reasons.

Particularitățile procedurii de contestare a actelor executorului judecătoresc în legislația din Republica Moldova

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (2021) ◽  
pp. 101-111
Author(s):  
Igor COBAN ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Rule Of Law ◽  
European Convention ◽  
The Rule Of Law ◽  
Republic Of Moldova ◽  
Civil Court ◽  
Procedural Law ◽  
The Republic ◽  
The Right

Enforcement is a fundamental institution of civil procedural law and an essential component of justice in a state governed by the rule of law. Enforcement in the light of the European Convention on Human Rights is an integral part of the „right to a fair trial”. The mere recognition of the right or the obligation of the debtor to restore the violated or contested right is often not enough. The legislator of the Republic of Moldova modernized the enforcement system by reforming it to the private system of enforcement of civil court documents. The object of this study is the particularities of the procedure for contesting the acts of the bailiff according to the legislation of the Republic of Moldova.

The Legacy of Colonialism on the Rule of Law in Sub Saharan Africa

2019 ◽  
Vol 113 ◽  
pp. 63-65
Author(s):  
Joel Samuels
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Rule Of Law ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
Access To Justice ◽  
The Rule Of Law ◽  
Colonial Legacy ◽  
Sub Saharan ◽  
The Impact

The impact of the colonial legacy and the decolonization process on the rule of law in sub-Saharan Africa encompasses virtually every component of the rule of law—governance, accountability, transparency, corruption, human rights, gender rights, access to justice, and the assurance of clear, publicized, stable, and just laws. These remarks are intended to provide an overview of some of the consequences of that legacy on the slow and delicate march toward a future where states and their leaders across the region embrace and abide by the rule of law.

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