European human rights law as a multi-layered human rights regime: preserving diversity and promoting human rights: Marton Varju

Abstract This article discusses the idea of international human rights law as ‘constitutional law’. It applies the French concept of Le contrôle de conventionnalité des lois, to demonstrate the constitutional potentials of international human rights law in the domestic sphere. In most monist constitutional systems based on the French civilian model, international law takes precedence over acts of parliament and other domestic legislation. Due in part to that hierarchy, conventionnalité permits the courts to review domestic law for compatibility with international law. From that perspective, international human rights norms can be said to have assumed a ‘para-constitutional’ function. Using two case studies from francophone Africa, this article argues that conventionnalité has the potential to play a significant role in the domestic implementation of international human rights and ultimately contributing to a more comprehensive domestic human rights regime.

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MENUJU ASEAN POLITICAL AND SECURITY COMMUNITY : KRITIK DAN TANTANGAN POLITIK HUKUM HAM INDONESIA DALAM REGIONALISME HAM ASEAN

Jurnal Rechts Vinding: Media Pembinaan Hukum Nasional ◽

10.33331/rechtsvinding.v3i2.42 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 3 (2) ◽

pp. 237

Author(s):

Harison Citrawan

Keyword(s):

Human Rights ◽

International Human Rights Law ◽

Human Rights Law ◽

Legal Compliance ◽

Military Discourse ◽

Human Rights Regime ◽

National Human ◽

Challenges And Opportunities ◽

Human Rights Norms ◽

Domestic Level

Tulisan ini mencoba menganalisis regionalisme hak asasi manusia (HAM) di kawasan Asia Tenggara dari sudut pandang politik hukum HAM Indonesia. Secara khusus, analisis akan dilakukan pada bagaimana peluang dan tantangan politik hukum HAM nasional dalam mewujudkan mekanisme perlindungan HAM regional, serta bagaimana gambaran interaksi ideal antara mekanisme perlindungan HAM di tingkat regional dengan nasional. Menggunakan pendekatan analisis rezim dan dipadukan dengan konsep kepatuhan hukum, tulisan ini mengajukan proposisi bahwa regionalisme HAM dalam kerangka kerja ASEAN akan sia-sia apabila tidak diikuti dengan tingkat kepatuhan hukum ( legal compliance ) negara-negara anggota ASEAN terhadap norma dan prinsip HAM di tingkat domestik. Dalam konteks politik hukum HAM nasional, terdapat setidaknya tiga dimensi tantangan yang perlu diperhatikan dalam masa mendatang yang meliputi: desentralisasi, diskursus militer-HAM, dan skeptisisme terhadap hukum HAM internasional. Tulisan ini menyimpulkan bahwa terdapat kebutuhan akan harmoni dalam reposisi politik hukum HAM baik di tingkat nasional dan regional, agar norma yang telah disepakati pada tingkat internasional dapat diimplementasikan dan diterjemahkan di tingkat regional, dan yang lebih penting lagi ialah agar regionalisme HAM ASEAN dapat memberi pengaruh terhadap domestikasi nilai dan prinsip HAM di Indonesia.<p>This paper attempts to analyze human rights regionalism in ASEAN from Indonesia’s national human rights politics perspective. In particular, an analysis will be taken on challenges and opportunities of the national human rights politics in establishing a stronger regional human rights mechanism, and how an ideal interaction between regional and national human rights mechanisms should be drawn. Using regime analysis approach and combined with legal compliance concept, this paper proposes that ASEAN human rights regime would be superfluous if it is not followed by member states’ legal compliance upon human rights norms and principle in domestic level. In the context of national human rights politics, there are at least three challenging dimensions that ought to be considered in the future, namely: decentralization, human rights-military discourse, and international human rights law skepticism. This paper thus concludes that there is a need to harmonize the human rights politics in both national and regional level, so that any internationally accepted norms will be implemented and applied into ASEAN human rights regionalism, and equally important is to ensure that such a regionalism is capable in influencing human rights values and principles domestication in Indonesia.</p>

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The Incomplete Right to Freedom of Movement

AJIL Unbound ◽

10.1017/aju.2018.23 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 111 ◽

pp. 514-518

Author(s):

Moria Paz

Keyword(s):

Human Rights ◽

International Human Rights Law ◽

Human Rights Law ◽

Human Right ◽

International Human Rights ◽

Freedom Of Movement ◽

Territorial State ◽

Human Rights Regime ◽

The Face ◽

International Human

We live now in the midst of a massive global crisis of mobility. An ever-growing population finds itself refugees displaced from the legitimate jurisdiction of any territorial state. In the face of this pressing emergency, influential voices argue that international human rights law should be placed “at the center” of international efforts to meet this challenge. But today's calamity is set against the backdrop of a universal human rights regime that is not only thin but, more importantly, incomplete. When it comes to cross-border mobility, human rights law ensures that states allow individuals to leave their state, but alas does not require that any other state let them enter and remain. Such entry and residence rights are required only for a country's own nationals (however nationality is defined). And so, many refugees who have exercised their human right to exit come up against a functional block to mobility: they have no place to stop moving. Some of them may nonetheless find a state willing to take them in. In that case, they may enjoy meaningful protection, but this protection exists only by virtue of a state's domestic policies and has little to do with international human rights.

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Climate justice and human rights

International Relations ◽

10.1177/0047117818782595 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 32 (3) ◽

pp. 275-295 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Andrea Schapper

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Human Rights ◽

Analytical Framework ◽

Climate Justice ◽

Human Rights Law ◽

Climate Policies ◽

Law And Policy ◽

Human Rights Regime ◽

Policy Fields ◽

Enforcement Mechanisms

Climate change as well as climate policies can have adverse effects on the human rights of certain population groups – and can exacerbate situations of injustice. As it stands today, the human rights regime is not set to sufficiently address these situations of climate injustice. In this article, I suggest a systematization of the normative climate justice literature that can be used as an analytical framework to evaluate current developments in human rights law and policy, and their potential to diminish inter-national, intra-societal and inter-generational climate injustice. I argue that further advancing procedural and substantive human rights obligations and corresponding enforcement mechanisms constitute one important way of establishing climate justice practices. Moreover, I suggest that the normative climate justice literature can be fruitfully used in International Relations to evaluate policy developments at the intersection between climate change and other policy fields.

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Human Rights, the Laws of War, and Reciprocity

Law & Ethics of Human Rights ◽

10.1515/1938-2545.1071 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 6 (2) ◽

pp. 147-171 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Eric A. Posner

Keyword(s):

Human Rights ◽

Collective Action ◽

International Law ◽

Human Rights Law ◽

Laws Of War ◽

Human Rights Regime ◽

Collective Action Problems ◽

Patterns Of Behavior ◽

Self Enforcement ◽

The U.S

Abstract Human rights law does not appear to enjoy as high a level of compliance as the laws of war, yet is institutionalized to a greater degree. This Article argues that the reason for this difference is related to the strategic structure of international law. The laws of war are governed by a regime of reciprocity, which can produce selfenforcing patterns of behavior, whereas the human rights regime attempts to produce public goods and is thus subject to collective action problems. The more elaborate human rights institutions are designed to overcome these problems but fall prey to second-order collective action problems. The simple laws of war institutions have been successful because they can exploit the logic of reciprocity. The Article also suggests that limits on military reprisals are in tension with self-enforcement of the laws of war. The U.S. conflict with Al Qaeda is discussed.

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The Protection of Minorities and Indigenous Peoples in International Law: A Comparative Temporal Analysis

International Journal on Minority and Group Rights ◽

10.1163/157181110x512142 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 17 (3) ◽

pp. 393-422

Author(s):

Joshua Castellino

Keyword(s):

Human Rights ◽

International Law ◽

Indigenous Peoples ◽

Minority Rights ◽

Temporal Analysis ◽

International Human Rights Law ◽

Human Rights Law ◽

International Human Rights ◽

Human Rights Regime ◽

International Human

AbstractIt is easy to detect a sense of achievement with the extent to which the human rights regime has progressed 60 years after the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The relative international successes suggest a bright outlook for the future of the human rights regime. However, an important lacuna remains in the attention that ought to be paid to minorities, indigenous peoples and others in vulnerable situations, including in some instances, women. This paper argues that despite the creation of sophisticated systems of international human rights law, the regimes for the protection of minority rights were stronger before the United Nations (UN) era. In support of this argument it seeks to assess regimes that existed at three different times, attempting to extrapolate and analyse the snapshots presented by these through the lens of evolving human rights law.

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