Browsing Irish Centre for Human Rights (Scholarly Articles) by Issue Date
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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 ... -
Israeli Action in Jenin far from a Proportionate Response
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Selective Conscientious Objection in International Law: Refusing to Participate in a Specific Armed Conflict
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EU Bewildered by Ireland's Attitude to Peacekeeping Force for Macedonia
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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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Introduction to Post-Conflict Rebuilding and International Law
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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 ...