THE RIGHT TO FAMILY LIFE: THE EUROPEAN AND INTER-AMERICAN PERSPECTIVES. THE PROHIBITION OF DISCRIMINATION

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (XX) ◽  
pp. 77-88
Author(s):  
Małgorzata Myl
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Family Life ◽  
International Human Rights Law ◽  
Human Rights Law ◽  
International Human Rights ◽  
Traditional Concept ◽  
Natural Group ◽  
The Family ◽  
International Human ◽  
The Right

Family, as a fundamental and natural group unity of society, has a special status both under a national law and under international regulations. The right to family life has been recognized as one of the basic human rights. States are obliged to respect the family life and to refrain from an arbitrary or unlawful interference in the life. In addition, States have obligations to adopt appropriate legal measures aimed at protecting everyone’s private and family life. Social changes should be taken into account during the implementation of States’ obligations (including changes in the family life model, eg. moving away from the ‘traditional’ concept of family as marriage of woman and man and their children). In the text it is presented an overview of how the concepts of family and family life are understood under the international human rights law. Then, the practice of the European and Inter-American human rights bodies was analyzed in relation to the protection of family life. The text is also an attempt to address the question whether people remaining in family models other than ‘traditional’ create the family life and whether the life in protected under the international human rights law.

Art.23 Respect for Home and the Family

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fiala-Butora János
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Family Life ◽  
Intimate Relationships ◽  
International Human Rights Law ◽  
Human Rights Law ◽  
International Human Rights ◽  
Persons With Disabilities ◽  
The Family ◽  
United Nations Convention ◽  
The Right

This chapter examines Article 23 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. The right to family life and its various components have long been recognized by international human rights law and in regional human rights instruments. Despite this long tradition of protecting the family in human rights law, persons with disabilities have long been subject to serious violations of their right to family life. The prevailing stereotype has considered persons with disabilities asexual, which has led to the denial of their sexual autonomy. The right to family life also encompasses all forms of relationships and parenthood. To be truly equal members of society, persons with disabilities must achieve equality of opportunity in these areas as well. This requires significant attitudinal change, empowerment, dismantling of barriers, and support to experience intimate relationships.

Legal Pluralism, Human Rights and the Right to Vote: The Case of the Noken System in Papua

2021 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 255-286
Author(s):  
Ignatius Yordan Nugraha
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Local Population ◽  
Constitutional Court ◽  
International Human Rights Law ◽  
Human Rights Law ◽  
International Human Rights ◽  
International Human ◽  
Right To Vote ◽  
The Right ◽  
Legal Pluralist

Abstract The goal of this article is to explore the clash between international human rights law and a legal pluralist framework in the case of the noken system and also to investigate potential solutions to the clash. Elections in Indonesia are generally founded on the principle of direct, universal, free, secret, honest and fair voting. There is a notable exception in the Province of Papua, where tribes in the Central Mountains area are following the noken system. Under this system, votes are allocated to the candidate(s) based on the decision of the big man or the consensus of the tribe. The Indonesian Constitutional Court has accepted this practice as reflecting the customs of the local population. However, this form of voting seems to be contrary to the right to vote under international human rights law, since article 25(b) of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights stipulates that elections shall be held genuinely by universal suffrage and secret ballot to guarantee the free will of the electors. Consequently, the case of the noken system in Papua reflects an uneasy clash between a legal pluralist approach and universal human rights.

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