Human Rights in the South Pacific

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sue Farran
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
South Pacific ◽  
The South

Nuclear Testing and Human Rights

1996 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 389-400 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefan Kadelbach
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
European Commission ◽  
South Pacific ◽  
French Polynesia ◽  
General Interest ◽  
Human Rights Law ◽  
Nuclear Testing ◽  
The South ◽  
Procedural Law ◽  
Underground Nuclear Testing

On 4 December 1995, the European Commission of Human Rights dismissed a complaint filed by inhabitants of French Polynesia against the decision of the President of the French Republic to resume underground nuclear testing in the South Pacific. The case raises a series of issues regarding both substantive human rights law and procedural law which are of general interest for human rights litigation in cases of degradation of the environment. The decision misses the opportunity to elaborate on how to protect human fights against potentially harmful activities when the risk incurred is in dispute. Thus, it raises more questions than it answers.

A New Challenge to International Law: The Disappearance of the Entire Territory of a State

2009 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 209-243 ◽  
Author(s):  
Selma Oliver
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
International Law ◽  
Sea Level Rise ◽  
Sea Level ◽  
South Pacific ◽  
The South ◽  
Nation States ◽  
The World

AbstractThe physical disappearance of a state's entire territory is an event forecasted to happen as a result of sea-level rise, affecting some of the smallest nation states in the world, primarily islands in the South Pacific. The focus of this article is on the human rights of the inhabitants of the disappearing states when they are forced to relocate.

scholarly journals Noted: Horror stories confront journalists

2008 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 233-234
Author(s):  
David Robie
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
South Pacific ◽  
Ordinary People ◽  
The South ◽  
Border Town ◽  
The Right ◽  
The University

Phil Thornton specialises in documenting the lives of opressed ordinary people. Eight years ago he was attached to the University of the South Pacific programme during the George Speight 'coup' doing human rights stories that few other journalists were touching.  In Restless Souls, Thornton provides colourful, evocative and tragic insights into the Karen people's struggle for freedom and the right to exist. He is based in part in the border town of Mae Sot—a bizarre community featuring aid peddlers, drug dealers, mercenaries, prostitutes, gem smugglers and freelance journalists. 

scholarly journals Book Review: Human Rights in the South Pacific – Challenges and Changes

2009 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 403
Author(s):  
Catherine Harwood
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
South Pacific ◽  
The South ◽  
Pacific People ◽  
Raising Awareness ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Definitive Solution ◽  
Legal Frameworks ◽  
Rights Issues

This article is a book review of Sue Farran Human Rights in the South Pacific Challenges and Changes (Routledge-Cavendish, United States and Canada, 2009). Recent events in the Pacific highlighted the potentially precarious existence of human rights in some Pacific states and showed that a vigorous human rights debate is needed to further realise human rights. Farran's book in the South Pacific examines themes and tensions raised by rights in Pacific states that have common law as part of their legal frameworks. Farran ponders the notion of human rights with a view to increase awareness of their value and establish workable mechanisms to bolster human rights in the Pacific. While the text offers no definitive solution, it provides a platform of ideas from which meaningful discourse on human rights can spring. Not only is the book accessible and informative, it is also an important contribution to the continuing rights debate in the Pacific by raising awareness of human rights issues for and by Pacific people and providing tangible suggestions for change. 

scholarly journals Land as a Fundamental Right: a Cautionary Tale

2009 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 387
Author(s):  
Sue Farran
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Natural Resources ◽  
South Pacific ◽  
Land Rights ◽  
Social Rights ◽  
Cautionary Tale ◽  
The South ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Political Economic

The article discusses the importance of land rights in the South Pacific for securing the enjoyment of other civil, political, economic, and social rights in the Pacific focusing especially on Vanuatu as a paradigm. The infringement of land rights and the abuse of natural resources in the Pacific have a long history and the consequences on human rights on the whole are severe.  The article argues that current constitutional provisions do not go far enough to ensure that land rights are protected and consequently to ensure the enjoyment human rights as a whole.

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