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Can international housing rights based on public international law really impact on contemporary housing systems?
(Ashgate, 2010-12)
The concept of home advances a new basis for evaluating housing rights,
emphasising their human and personal benefits. Housing rights address, at a
national, regional and global level, displacement and dispossession, as ...
Irish and UN forces faced with dilemma in Lebanon
(The Irish Times, 2010)
Housing and human rights
(Elsevier, 2011)
Housing meets a primary human need and housing rights are now enshrined housing rights within international human rights law, regional and constitutional legal instruments. These rights extend beyond shelter, and encompass ...
Local authorities and the European Convention on Human Rights Act 2003
(Clarus Press, 2010)
This article discusses the impact of the European Convention on Human Rights Act
2003 (ECHR Act) on local authorities in Ireland. The Act creates a new framework
for the representative, regulatory, agency and service ...
International instruments on housing rights
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2010)
Housing rights can act to guarantee minimum housing provision for poor and deprived persons, based on respect for human
dignity. These rights are now established within many international public law instruments and treaties, ...
The Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2009.
(Roundhall Sweet & Maxwell, 2010-06)
The Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2009 (the 2009 Act)has updated and expanded many areas of social housing law. This takes place as the significance of social housing rises immeasurably within the financial rescue ...
Defences to international crimes
(Routledge, 2011)
The label 'defences' can be used to describe a range of excusing or justificatory answers to a criminal charge, or as 'grounds for excluding criminal responsibility',
according to Article 31 of the Rome Statute of the ...
Regulating Marine Scientific Research in the European Union: It Takes More Than Two to Tango
(Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2012)
The EU and the Member States are party to the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea. The EU has been a long-standing
proponent of the conceptual underpinnings of the 1982 Convention as a package
deal ...