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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 ...
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. ...
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 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 ...
Challenges in Applying Human Rights Law to Armed Conflict
(International Review of the Red Cross, 2005-12)
The debates over the relationship between International Humanitarian Law and International Human Rights Law, have often focused on the question of whether human rights law continues to apply during armed conflict, and if ...
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 ...