Download or read book Healing France Restoring the Universal Declaration of Human Rights UDHR in the French Republic written by Mark O'Doherty and published by . This book was released on 2021-05-08 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A French pilot has filed a legal complaint after being subjected to a hazing ritual in which he was tied to a target and had fighter jets open fire around him, his lawyer has said. The young man had just been posted to an airbase in the south of the island of Corsica in March 2019 when he was grabbed by colleagues and tied up with adhesive tape, his lawyer said, confirming details first published in La Provence newspaper. After having a bag put over his head, the recruit in his 30s was transported to a live-fire target range, tied to a target, and then heard fighter jets open fire and drop munitions around him for 20 minutes, the newspaper reported. The man's lawyer, Frederic Berna, told AFP he had lodged a legal complaint over the incident at a court in the city of Marseille "in the middle of the week" which could lead to charges of deliberately endangering someone's life and aggravated violence. Video and pictures of the hooded and motionless victim, in which the perpetrators are clearly visible, have been handed over to prosecutors. The revelations come just months after the conviction of three French soldiers over a brutal initiation ceremony at the country's most prestigious military academy. The men were found guilty of manslaughter over the death of a young recruit who drowned at the Saint-Cyr academy in 2012. Asked about the allegations in Corsica, a spokesman for the French air force told AFP that an investigation had been launched once the chief of staff learned about the incident in May 2019. "Strong sanctions" had been decided against the perpetrators, the spokesman said, without specifying the punishment or the ranks of those implicated. "The air force condemns any activity that could cause physical or psychological damage to its personnel," he said. Bullying and humiliating initiation ceremonies, known as hazing, are common in armed forces around the world and have been linked to mental health problems, suicides and sometimes murder. A Russian soldier was handed a 24-year prison term in January this earlier after gunning down eight of his colleagues in 2019 who he said had made his life "hell". Therefore it is imperative that all armed forces in the International Community immediately put an end to activities that could cause physical or psychological damage to their personnel - in particular hazing and humiliating initiation ceremonies - so that the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) can be upheld in the International Community.
Download or read book Healing France Relighting the Flame of Freedom in the French Republic written by Mark O'Doherty and published by . This book was released on 2021-07-31 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In France, a new law could seriously restrict women's rights to wear headscarves in public, and there are fears that it will entrench Islamophobia. In October 2020, President Emmanuel Macron laid out the vision behind a new, deeply controversial bill. The government claimed a minority of France's estimated 6 million Muslims were at risk of forming a "counter-society" and the bill was designed to tackle the dangers of this "Islamist separatism". It is meant to safeguard republican values, but critics, including Amnesty International, have pointed out that it will gravely inhibit freedom of association and expression, and increase discrimination. The new law will severely affect the construction of mosques, and give more discretion to local authorities to close local associations deemed in conflict with "Republican principles", a term often wielded against Muslims specifically. But one of the most controversial points is extending the ban on women wearing headscarves in public sector roles, to private organisations that provide a public service. Further amendments were tabled prohibiting full-length swimsuits ("burkinis"), girls under 18 from wearing the hijab in public, and mothers from wearing hijabs on their children's school trips. These were subsequently overturned, but the stigma they legitimise lives on. On 30th July 2021 the bill was passed by the National Assembly of the French parliament. Its effects have already been felt by an embattled minority of French women who have voiced their experiences of institutional Islamophobia, and their fears for the future. [...] "We have been forced into an enclave and the only way we can challenge things domestically is through international support. In France, anyone who speaks up for Muslim rights is labelled an 'islamo-leftist' and undermined. Even the government commission on laïcité [secularism] was dismantled because it objected to the way laïcité was being wielded. We are told we don't integrate, but we are gradually being pushed out of public life completely." Hence this is a very bad law, since it restricts women's rights to wear headscarves in public, and would entrench Islamophobia and gravely violate freedom of religion, association and expression - as well as marginalize and discriminate women in France who are of Muslim faith. Therefore the French government should revoke this very bad law, so that the flame of freedom and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) can be upheld in France.
Download or read book The Universal Declaration of Human Rights written by William A. Schabas and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-04-18 with total page 4171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of United Nations documents associated with the drafting of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, these volumes facilitate research into the scope of, meaning of and intent behind the instrument's provisions. It permits an examination of the various drafts of what became the thirty articles of the Declaration, including one of the earliest documents – a compilation of human rights provisions from national constitutions, organised thematically. The documents are organised chronologically and thorough thematic indexing facilitates research into the origins of specific rights and norms. It is also annotated in order to provide information relating to names, places, events and concepts that might have been familiar in the late 1940s but are today more obscure.
Download or read book The Last Utopia written by Samuel Moyn and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2012-03-05 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Human rights offer a vision of international justice that today’s idealistic millions hold dear. Yet the very concept on which the movement is based became familiar only a few decades ago when it profoundly reshaped our hopes for an improved humanity. In this pioneering book, Samuel Moyn elevates that extraordinary transformation to center stage and asks what it reveals about the ideal’s troubled present and uncertain future. For some, human rights stretch back to the dawn of Western civilization, the age of the American and French Revolutions, or the post–World War II moment when the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was framed. Revisiting these episodes in a dramatic tour of humanity’s moral history, The Last Utopia shows that it was in the decade after 1968 that human rights began to make sense to broad communities of people as the proper cause of justice. Across eastern and western Europe, as well as throughout the United States and Latin America, human rights crystallized in a few short years as social activism and political rhetoric moved it from the hallways of the United Nations to the global forefront. It was on the ruins of earlier political utopias, Moyn argues, that human rights achieved contemporary prominence. The morality of individual rights substituted for the soiled political dreams of revolutionary communism and nationalism as international law became an alternative to popular struggle and bloody violence. But as the ideal of human rights enters into rival political agendas, it requires more vigilance and scrutiny than when it became the watchword of our hopes.
Download or read book The Universal Declaration of Human Rights written by M. Glen Johnson and published by Unesco. This book was released on 1998 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Download or read book Human Rights Translated written by Castan Centre for Human Rights Law and published by United Nations Publications. This book was released on 2008 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The purpose of this publication is to contribute to [the] process of clarification by explaining universally recognised human rights in a way that makes sense to business. The publication also aims to illustrate, through the use of case studies and actions, how human rights are relevant in a corporate context and how human rights issues can be managed."--Introduction, p. vii.
Download or read book The right to a remedy and to reparation for gross human rights violations a practitioners guide written by Cordula Dröge and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Realizing the Right to Development written by United Nations. Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is devoted to the 25th anniversary of the United Nations Declaration on the Right to Development. It contains a collection of analytical studies of various aspects of the right to development, which include the rule of law and good governance, aid, trade, debt, technology transfer, intellectual property, access to medicines and climate change in the context of an enabling environment at the local, regional and international levels. It also explores the issues of poverty, women and indigenous peoples within the theme of social justice and equity. The book considers the strides that have been made over the years in measuring progress in implementing the right to development and possible ways forward to make the right to development a reality for all in an increasingly fragile, interdependent and ever-changing world.
Download or read book Making the Declaration Work written by Claire Charters and published by International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs. This book was released on 2009 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples is a culmination of a centuries-long struggle by indigenous peoples for justice. It is an important new addition to UN human rights instruments in that it promotes equality for the world's indigenous peoples and recognizes their collective rights."--Back cover.
Download or read book International Human Rights Law in a Global Context written by Felipe Gómez Isa and published by Universidad de Deusto. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 974 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The international human rights system remains as dynamic as ever. If at the end of the last century there was a sense that the normative and institutional development of the system had been completed and that the emphasis should shift to issues of implementation, nothing of the sort occurred. Even over the last few years significant changes happened, as this book amply demonstrates. We hope that this Manual makes a contribution to the development of International Human Rights Law and is of interest for those working in the field of promotion and protection of human rights. The book is the result of a joint project under the auspices of HumanitarianNet, a Thematic Network led by the University of Deusto, and the European Inter-University Centre for Human Rights and Democratisation (EIUC, Venice).
Download or read book A World Made New written by Mary Ann Glendon and published by Random House Trade Paperbacks. This book was released on 2002-06-11 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unafraid to speak her mind and famously tenacious in her convictions, Eleanor Roosevelt was still mourning the death of FDR when she was asked by President Truman to lead a controversial commission, under the auspices of the newly formed United Nations, to forge the world’s first international bill of rights. A World Made New is the dramatic and inspiring story of the remarkable group of men and women from around the world who participated in this historic achievement and gave us the founding document of the modern human rights movement. Spurred on by the horrors of the Second World War and working against the clock in the brief window of hope between the armistice and the Cold War, they grappled together to articulate a new vision of the rights that every man and woman in every country around the world should share, regardless of their culture or religion. A landmark work of narrative history based in part on diaries and letters to which Mary Ann Glendon, an award-winning professor of law at Harvard University, was given exclusive access, A World Made New is the first book devoted to this crucial turning point in Eleanor Roosevelt’s life, and in world history. Finalist for the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award
Download or read book International Protection of Human Rights Achievements and Challenges written by Felipe Gómez Isa and published by Universidad de Deusto. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the beginning of the nineties, there was an expectation within the human rights community that the next decade would be a period of consolidation for the international human rights regime. This did not happen. In fact, the human rights regime underwent dramatic changes in response to new circumstances. We have tried to highlight both the achievements and the challenges ahead in this Manual, the result of a joint project under the auspices of HumanitarianNet, a Thematic Network on Humanitarian Development Studies leaded by the University of Deusto (Bilbao, the Basque Country, Spain), and the European Inter-University Centre for Human Rights and Democratisation (EIUC, Venice, Italy).
Download or read book The Globalization of Human Rights written by Jean-Marc Coicaud and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: International efforts to construct a set of standardised human rights guidelines are based upon the identification of agreed key values regarding the relationships between individuals and the institutions governing them, which are viewed as critical to the well-being of humanity and the character of being human. This publication considers these issues of justice at the national, regional, and international levels by analysing civil, political, economic and social rights aspects.
Download or read book Revolution of the Right to Education written by A. Reis Monteiro and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-07-19 with total page 817 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Revolution of the Right to Education, A. Reis Monteiro offers an interdisciplinary and topical introduction to the International Education Law, broadly defined, striving to explain why the normative integrity of the right to education carries far-reaching revolutionary significance.
Download or read book Democracy and Goodness written by John R. Wallach and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-01-25 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Proposes a new democratic theory, rooted in activity not consent, and intrinsically related to historical understandings of power and ethics.
Download or read book The Right to Self determination written by Aureliu Cristescu and published by New York : United Nations. This book was released on 1981 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Climate Change and Human Rights written by Stephen Humphreys and published by ICHRP. This book was released on 2008 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
