Local authorities, human rights and the reception and integration of forced migrants in Greece and Italy

10.33540/568 ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Tihomir Yonkov Sabchev
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Local Authorities ◽  
Forced Migrants

The new urban agenda and human rights cities: Interconnections between the global and the local

2018 ◽  
Vol 36 (4) ◽  
pp. 290-310 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karina Gomes da Silva
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Sustainable Urban Development ◽  
Local Authorities ◽  
International Commitments ◽  
Global Standards ◽  
Human Rights Based Approach ◽  
Implementation Gaps ◽  
Global And Local ◽  
The City ◽  
New Urban Agenda

As the level of governance closest to the city dwellers, local authorities have been called to play a protagonist role as implementers of global standards on human rights and sustainable development. The New Urban Agenda, a political declaration signed by all UN Member States, sets a human rights-based approach to policy-making and service delivery as a path towards inclusive and sustainable urban development. Remarkably, the document acknowledges that local authorities are responsible for protecting, respecting, fulfilling, and promoting the human rights of the inhabitants. However, gaps between the aspiring language of international commitments and their concrete impact on the ground have limited its potential to transform people’s lives. Nevertheless, all over the world human rights cities have pro-actively set the implementation of human rights as a core task in the municipality. By establishing practical links and synergies between human rights cities and the NUA, this paper suggests ways of filling implementation gaps, drawing a promising scenario for the realisation of both global and local agendas.

Environmentally Forced Migration and Human Rights

2019 ◽  
pp. 336-362
Author(s):  
J. M. M. van der Vliet-Bakker
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
International Law ◽  
Environmental Degradation ◽  
Forced Migration ◽  
Human Rights Law ◽  
Minimum Standards ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
Specific Category ◽  
Forced Migrants

In an era of accelerating environmental degradation, a growing number of people will be affected by its effects. Some of those people will be forced to migrate, both internally and cross-border. Under current international law, those people are not recognized as a specific category entitled to protection. Many protection gaps in international law can be identified for these ‘environmentally forced migrants'. Human rights law can fill some of those gaps by offering minimum standards of treatment, procedural protection or complementary protection. This chapter systematically assesses these possibilities.

18. Human Rights and Forced Migration

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gil Loescher
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Forced Migration ◽  
International Community ◽  
World Politics ◽  
Internal Displacement ◽  
High Commissioner ◽  
Forced Migrants ◽  
International Refugee Regime

This chapter examines the link between human rights and forced migration. It first considers the human rights problems confronting forced migrants both during their flight and during their time in exile before discussing the differing definitions accorded refugees today as well as the difficulty in coming up with a widely accepted definition. It then explores the roles and functions of the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees and the international refugee regime. It also uses the case study of Myanmar to illustrate many of the human rights features of a protracted refugee and internal displacement crisis. Finally, it describes how the international community might respond to new and emerging challenges in forced migration and world politics, and better adapt to the ongoing tension between the power and interests of states and upholding refugee rights.

Human Rights Abuses in Crimea under Russia’s Occupation

2014 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 328-340 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yulia Gorbunova
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
International Humanitarian Law ◽  
Humanitarian Law ◽  
Local Authorities ◽  
Human Rights Abuses ◽  
Human Rights Protection ◽  
Rights Protection ◽  
Law And Policy ◽  
Russian Law

Russian and local authorities have severely curtailed human rights protection in Crimea since Russia began its occupation of the peninsula in February 2014. This article describes the human rights consequences of the extension of Russian law and policy to Crimea since the occupation. Russia has violated multiple obligations which it has as an occupying power under international humanitarian law – in particular in relation to the protection of people’s rights.

scholarly journals PUBLIC AUTHORITIES AS “VICTIMS” UNDER THE HUMAN RIGHTS ACT

2005 ◽  
Vol 64 (2) ◽  
pp. 315-328
Author(s):  
Howard Davis
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Public Authority ◽  
Current Debate ◽  
Local Authorities ◽  
Public Authorities ◽  
House Of Lords ◽  
Human Rights Act ◽  
Human Rights Act 1998

ONE feature of the current debate concerning the term “public authority” in the Human Rights Act 1998 is a rule to the effect that public authorities are not themselves capable of having and enforcing Convention rights. In what follows this will be referred to as the “rights-restriction rule”. The position was confirmed by the House of Lords in Aston Cantlow and has been given effect by the courts in relation to English local authorities and to NHS Trusts in Scotland. Despite this, doubts have been expressed. In particular the parliamentary Joint Committee has suggested, though without argument, that the denial of Convention rights to public authorities may be wrong in principle and that there are “circumstances in which public authorities have Convention rights”.

8. Adoption

2020 ◽  
pp. 146-165
Author(s):  
Susan Heenan ◽  
Anna Heenan
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Parental Consent ◽  
Parental Responsibility ◽  
Local Authorities ◽  
Essential Information ◽  
Birth Parents ◽  
Legal Relationship ◽  
Adoption Agency ◽  
Different Types

Each Concentrate revision guide is packed with essential information, key cases, revision tips, exam Q&As, and more. Concentrates show you what to expect in a law exam, what examiners are looking for, and how to achieve extra marks. This chapter focuses on adoption as a means to terminate the legal relationship between a child and their birth parents. It considers the human rights aspects of adoption and different types of adoption and discusses adoption proceedings in England and Wales under the Adoption and Children Act 2002. The chapter then explains the role of local authorities and adoption agencies under section 2 of the Adoption and Children Act 2002, and placement for adoption, parental responsibility, and parental consent. It also highlights the welfare of children as considered by an adoption agency or a court when making a decision affecting the child. Finally, the chapter examines alternative orders: child arrangements order, parental responsibility, special guardianship order, and no order. This edition now includes reference to the Special Guardianship (Amendment) Regulations 2016.

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