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Singapore And The Universal Periodic Review: An Unprecedented Human Rights Assessment, Mahdev Mohan
Singapore And The Universal Periodic Review: An Unprecedented Human Rights Assessment, Mahdev Mohan
Research Collection Yong Pung How School Of Law
Singapore will soon submit a national report to and subsequently appear before the UN Human Rights Council for a universal periodic review of its human rights laws and practices. This review will elicit a rare and unprecedented expression of whether and how Singapore feels it has adhered to international human rights law, and ways in which it may further refine or calibrate its domestic practices. This article seeks to identify Singapore’s human rights achievements; highlight challenges it should be prepared to address; and recommend measures it should adopt to promote human rights.
Home State Responsibility And Local Communities: The Case Of Global Mining, Sara L. Seck
Home State Responsibility And Local Communities: The Case Of Global Mining, Sara L. Seck
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Home states that are actively engaged in global mining have considered and rejected calls to regulate the conduct of transnational mining corporations so as to prevent and remedy human rights and environmental harms. This reluctance to regulate is often expressed as a concern that extraterritorial regulation will conflict with the sovereignty of foreign states. This paper argues that the public international law of jurisdiction is permissive of home state regulation that can be justified under the nationality or territoriality principles, provided that there is no true conflict with an exercise of host state jurisdiction. In the human rights and environment …
Access To Justice -- Variations And Continuity Of A World-Wide Movement, Bryant G. Garth, Mauro Cappelletti, Nicolo Trocker
Access To Justice -- Variations And Continuity Of A World-Wide Movement, Bryant G. Garth, Mauro Cappelletti, Nicolo Trocker
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Access To Justice: The Newest Wave In The Worldwide Movement To Make Rights Effective, Bryant G. Garth, Mauro Cappelletti
Access To Justice: The Newest Wave In The Worldwide Movement To Make Rights Effective, Bryant G. Garth, Mauro Cappelletti
Articles by Maurer Faculty
The present essay is one of the fruits of a four-year comparative research project entitled "Florence Access-to-Justice Project," sponsored by the Ford Foundation and, with a slightly more local focus, the Italian National Council of Research (CNR). The essay will serve as the General Report introducing the Project's forthcoming four-volume series. The volumes, being published by Sijthoff (Leyden and Boston) and Giuffr6 (Milan) under the general editorship of Mr. Cappelletti are: Volume I. Access to Justice: A World Survey (edited by Messrs. Cappelletti and Garth); Volume II. Access to Justice: Studies of Promising Institutions (edited by Mr. Cappelletti and Mr. …