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Feminism, modern philosophy and the future of legitimacy of international constitutionalism
(Brill Academic Publishers, 2009)International constitutionalism relates to processes of limiting traditionally unrestricted powers of states as ultimate subjects, law-makers and law-enforcers of international law. Human rights occupy a central, but ... -
Freedom of artistic expression and the referendum on the 8th Amendment
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Hospitality and sovereignty: what can we learn from the Canadian private sponsorship of refugees program?
(Oxford University Press, 2012-09-10)This article addresses the tension between state sovereignty and refugee protection. The application of refugee law is often harshly criticized with such modern tendencies as increased border controls ... -
Human rights and smart economics: Mainstreaming gender in international trade policy
(UCD Law Review, 2009)At the time, the 1995 Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing was applauded as a massive turning point for the status of women's human rights worldwide. Gender mainstreaming, established in the Beijing Platform for ... -
A human rights framework: Background Research for the Truth Recovery Design Process
(Truth Recovery Design Panel, 2021-09-27)[No abstract available] -
ICCL follow-up report to the United Nations Committee against torture: NGO submission to the United Nations Committee against Torture: Follow-up to the 2017 concluding observations of the committee against torture
(Irish Council for Civil Liberties, 2018-11-23)This report by the Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL) to the United Nations Committee Against Torture (CAT) forms part of the process of ‘follow-up’ to the CAT’s second set of Concluding Observations on Ireland, ... -
ICCL submission to the Department of Health on the deprivation of liberty safeguard proposals
(Irish Council for Civil Liberties, 2018-03-16)The ICCL welcomes the State’s long-overdue effort to establish legal safeguards to protect the rights of individuals who are or may be deprived of their liberty in care settings. Ireland has a long history of failing to ... -
ICCL/ICHR submission to Oireachtas Justice Committee consultation on direct provision in Ireland
(Irish Council for Civil Liberties, 2019-05-31)This is a joint submission by the Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL) and Dr Maeve O’Rourke of the Irish Centre for Human Rights, NUI Galway. -
Imputed Criminal Liability and the Goals of International Justice
(Leiden Journal of International Law, 2007)This article considers the suitability of employing particular modes of imputed criminal liability in trials before international criminal tribunals. It focuses specifically on the doctrines of joint criminal enterprise ... -
International law, literature and interdisciplinarity
(Taylor & Francis, 2015-07-03)This article analyses the relationship between international law and literature from the point of view of its form of expression. Using insights from Deleuze and Guattari's analysis of Kafka's oeuvre as a ‘minor literature’, ... -
International players fiddle while Syria burns
(The Irish Times, 2013)The UN Human Rights office estimated that more than 60,000 people have died in Syria's bloody civil war, surpassing the Syrian opposition's estimates by one-third. UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay faulted ... -
Introduction to Post-Conflict Rebuilding and International Law
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Ireland's Magdalene Laundries and the state's duty to protect
(Law Society of Ireland, 2011)Irish society has recently begun to come to terms with a legacy of systemic physical, sexual and emotional maltreatment of children from the 1930s to the 1970s in State-funded, Catholic Church-run Industrial and ... -
Ireland's Magdalene laundries: Confronting a history not yet in the past
(Arlen House, 2016)On 19th February 2013, the Taoiseach and Tánaiste offered an emotional apology to women who had survived Ireland’s Magdalene Laundries – the infamous convents where over 10,000 girls and women were imprisoned and forced ... -
Ireland, peacekeeping and policing the 'new world order'.
(Centre for Research and Documentation, 1997)The collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the 'Cold War' has given rise to a situation where there is in effect one world 'superpower', the United States of America (US). The so called 'new world order' was intended ... -
Ireland’s experience of memorialisation in the context of serious violations of human rights and humanitarian law: A submission to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the promotion of truth, justice, reparations and guarantees of non-recurrence
(Justice for Magdalenes Research, 2020-01-24)Background The systematic sexual, physical and emotional abuses which children experienced in Ireland’s Industrial and Reformatory Schools during the 20th century are discussed in the official report of the Commission ... -
Is the pursuit of international justice flawed? The Irish Times, 6 June 2013, p. 14.
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The Islamic veil and its discontents: how do they undermine gender equality
(Brill Academic Publishers, 2012)The article addresses the use of notions of gender equality and non-discrimination in the discussions concerning the practice of Islamic veiling by the European Court of Human Rights as well as by French authorities ...