Browsing Irish Centre for Human Rights (Scholarly Articles) by Title
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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 ... -
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, 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 ... -
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 ... -
Israeli Action in Jenin far from a Proportionate Response
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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 ... -
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 ... -
Muslim women's claims to refugee status within the context of child custody upon divorce under Islamic law
(Oxford University Press, 2010)This article analyses case law from the UK, New Zealand, and Canada relating to claims for recognition of refugee status presented by divorced Muslim women, revolving around the issue of child custody after divorce under ... -
Post-UN Withdrawal: An Assessment of Peacekeeping in Chad
(2011)The primary task of the parallel UN and European Union peace operations to Chad and the Central African Republic s (CAR) borders with Sudan in 2008 was protection of civilians and humanitarian workers. Delays in deployment ... -
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 ... -
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. ... -
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 ... -
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 ...