Browsing Irish Centre for Human Rights (Scholarly Articles) by Issue Date
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Truth commissions, the European Union and reparations from business
(British Institute of International and Comparative Law, 2012-01)Truth and reconciliation commissions are an increasingly common mechanism used in post-conflict or transitional societies. These commissions might act as means of accountability, establish a record of past events, help ... -
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 ... -
The "Reservations Dialogue" as a constitution-making process
(Brill Academic Publishers, 2013)The article proposes a new reading of the reservations regime to human rights treaties. The practice developed by states in relation to the reservations regime is analysed and presented as a constitution-making process. ... -
Is the pursuit of international justice flawed? The Irish Times, 6 June 2013, p. 14.
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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 ... -
Burial of a child's remains: Resolving parental disputes
(Law Week Limited, 2013-02-28)A dispute between parents as to where or how to dispose of their child's remains may seem too tragic to countenance. However, it can occur, understandably, where two parents live far apart (in different countries even), ... -
Rethinking human rights and culture through female genital surgeries
(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015-02)The article revisits the relationship between culture and human rights through the analysis of one traditionally condemned cultural practice known in human rights law as female genital mutilation. The analysis draws on ... -
Retaliation and Reprisal, forthcoming in Marc Weller (ed.), Oxford Handbook on the Use of Force, Oxford University Press (2013)
(2015-04-17)This book chapter explores the evolution of the law on the use of force as it relates to armed reprisals and retaliation, particularly since the adoption of the Charter of the United Nations in 1945. While the preponderance ... -
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’, ... -
Considering time in migration and border control practices
(Inderscience, 2016-10)Practices within the area of migration and border control are often analysed through a spatial lens. This is understandable: migration studies deal with movement of people across different places and spaces. Internatio ... -
UN peacekeeping mission to Haiti leaves controversial legacy
(RTE Brainstorm, 2017-09-12)UN military peacekeepers are withdrawing from Haiti after 13 years. The mission (known as MINUSTAH) has been marred by controversy involving allegations of sexual abuse and human rights violations. Operations began in ... -
Mladic trial marks end of an era
(RTE Brainstorm, 2017-11-21)The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia will this week deliver its judgment in what is the Tribunal s last big trial. Although the world has grown weary of the trials arising from the 1992-95 war in ... -
Mladic is convicted but jury is still out on Yugoslav tribunal
(The Irish Times, 2017-11-24)General Mladic, the former Bosnian Serb commander, has been found guilty of war crimes and other serious violations of international law. This was the last trial judgment to be delivered by the International Criminal ... -
State must allow institutionalised people access to personal files
(Irish Times, 2019-01-08)his year, politicians must do what is right by survivors and family members of deceased victims of all forms of so-called historical abuse in Ireland. It is a milestone year. The Mother and Baby Homes Commission of ... -
Prolonged impunity as a continuing situation of torture or ill-treatment? Applying a dignity lens to so-called historical cases
(Springer and T.M.C Asser Press, 2019-03-28)Around the world many survivors of so-called historical abuses persist in seeking truth and justice decades after rights violations have been perpetrated. Recognising that prolonged impunity may cause victims suffering ... -
10 ways institutional abuse details are still being kept secret
(RTÉ Brainstorm, 2019-09-05)The Taoiseach has tonight issued an apology on behalf of the State and its citizens to the victims of child abuse. Mr. Ahern made the apology as he announced a package of measures to tackle such abuse. These include the ... -
Suu Kyi has made herself the face of a murderous regime
(Business Post, 2019-12-15)The Gambia is bringing the case to the International Court of Justice to stop what it sees as genocide and to get a preliminary finding on the issue. The case is the first international attempt to make Myanmar accountable ...