scholarly journals Saying NO To Biometrics

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guru Dev Teeluckdharry
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
National Identity ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Biometric Data ◽  
The Uk

This paper has been prepared to challenge the MNIS (Mauritius National Identity Scheme) in Mauritius. In the UK, the biometric national ID scheme was junked in 2010. Should Mauritius learn from the UK? A number of courts' decisions with respect to biometric data schemes have been analysed in depth. The dangers and risks of biometric technologies have been exposed. Even if the so called judgemental interferences of biometric technologies especially biometric IDs and databases with the human life (in the presence of adequate legal safeguards) could exceptionally be justified legally, there are ethical and social ramifications which illustrate that this is also an intrusion on human rights and should not be permissible at all.

scholarly journals Saying NO To Biometrics

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guru Dev Teeluckdharry
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
National Identity ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Biometric Data ◽  
The Uk

This paper has been prepared to challenge the MNIS (Mauritius National Identity Scheme) in Mauritius. In the UK, the biometric national ID scheme was junked in 2010. Should Mauritius learn from the UK? A number of courts' decisions with respect to biometric data schemes have been analysed in depth. The dangers and risks of biometric technologies have been exposed. Even if the so called judgemental interferences of biometric technologies especially biometric IDs and databases with the human life (in the presence of adequate legal safeguards) could exceptionally be justified legally, there are ethical and social ramifications which illustrate that this is also an intrusion on human rights and should not be permissible at all.

TO THE QUESTION OF RESPONSIBILITY FOR TORTURE IN THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 103-106
Author(s):  
ASTEMIR ZHURTOV ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Russian Federation ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Human Life ◽  
International Standards ◽  
World Community ◽  
The World ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Protection Of Human Rights ◽  
The Russian Federation

Cruel and inhumane acts that harm human life and health, as well as humiliate the dignity, are prohibited in most countries of the world, and Russia is no exception in this issue. The article presents an analysis of the institution of responsibility for torture in the Russian Federation. The author comes to the conclusion that the current criminal law of Russia superficially and fragmentally regulates liability for torture, in connection with which the author formulated the proposals to define such act as an independent crime. In the frame of modern globalization, the world community pays special attention to the protection of human rights, in connection with which large-scale international standards have been created a long time ago. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other international acts enshrine prohibitions of cruel and inhumane acts that harm human life and health, as well as degrade the dignity.Considering the historical experience of the past, these standards focus on the prohibition of any kind of torture, regardless of the purpose of their implementation.

Identity Politics and Migration

2008 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 155-158
Author(s):  
Vytis Čiubrinskas
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Identity Politics ◽  
Host Country ◽  
Social Anthropology ◽  
The Us ◽  
And Migration ◽  
The Uk ◽  
A Current ◽  
Respective Host

The Centre of Social Anthropology (CSA) at Vytautas Magnus University (VMU) in Kaunas has coordinated projects on this, including a current project on 'Retention of Lithuanian Identity under Conditions of Europeanisation and Globalisation: Patterns of Lithuanian-ness in Response to Identity Politics in Ireland, Norway, Spain, the UK and the US'. This has been designed as a multidisciplinary project. The actual expressions of identity politics of migrant, 'diasporic' or displaced identity of Lithuanian immigrants in their respective host country are being examined alongside with the national identity politics of those countries.

Towards the New Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Maruma Mrema
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Biological Diversity ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Global Pandemic ◽  
The World ◽  
Global Biodiversity

While 2020 –dubbed the “Super Year for Nature –has seen the world battling an unforeseen global pandemic, this article comes back on the Convention of Biological Diversity and its regime, studies the aim of the negotiations of the post-2020 global biodiversity framework and the relevance of this framework for the planet, considering that the protection of biological diversity impacts all aspects of human life, including the full enjoying of human rights and protection against future pandemics.

The Journalist—Source Relationship in Context: A Comparative Review of US and English Law

2009 ◽  
Vol 38 (3) ◽  
pp. 268-294
Author(s):  
Stuart Wallace
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Legal Protection ◽  
State Level ◽  
Potential Threat ◽  
Shield Law ◽  
Special Procedure ◽  
European Court ◽  
Comparative Review ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Impact

This paper analyses the legal protection of the journalist–source relationship from both sides and the underlying interests involved. The paper begins by analysing why the relationship deserves protection. The position of journalists at common law is analysed with a discussion of the application of the principle established in Norwich Pharmacal v Customs and Excise to journalists. The development of immunity from contempt in s. 10 of the Contempt of Court Act 1981 is examined to illustrate the ideological clash between the judiciary and journalists. The impact of the Human Rights Act and decisions of the European Court of Human Rights are analysed to assess whether this will lead to a change in attitudes in the UK. Finally, the potential threat to journalists posed by compelled evidentiary disclosure in criminal cases is reviewed, with a particular look at ‘special procedure’ material. The US section begins with an analysis of the law at federal level, the decisions of the Supreme Court, including the leading decision of Branzburg v Hayes, as well as the role the legislature has played. The paper then analyses protections provided at state level, with a case study of the California shield law and a review of Californian jurisprudence.

Ruth Davidson's Conservatives: The Scottish Tory Party, 2011-19

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Retrospective Study ◽  
Northern Ireland ◽  
Conservative Party ◽  
Academic Discourse ◽  
Point Of No Return ◽  
Lgbt Politics ◽  
The Uk

Examines the startling revival of the Scottish Conservative Party under Ruth Davidson’s leadership: A very timely retrospective study of the Scottish Conservative Party's revival under Ruth Davidson's leadership (November 2011–August 2019). Analyses the Scottish Conservative Party under Ruth Davidson’s in the context of gender and LGBT politics; its relationships with the SNP, Northern Ireland, the Scottish media and the UK Tory Party; and its use of Scottish national identity. Helps inform Scottish political and academic discourse ahead of the 2021 Holyrood elections. When Ruth Davidson was elected leader of the Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party in 2011, it was considered something of a joke: in electoral decline for decades, politically irrelevant and seemingly past the point of no return. But by 2017, ‘Ruth Davidson’s Conservatives’ had become Scotland’s second party at Holyrood and Westminster, and its leader spoken of as a future leader of the UK Conservative Party, if not the next Scottish First Minister. Then, in August 2019, Ruth Davidson resigned.

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