Top Research Papers on Human Rights

Fully updated, the sixth edition of International Human Rights examines the ways in which states and other international actors have addressed human rights since the end of World War II. This unique textbook features substantial attention to theory, history, international and regional institutions, and the role of transnational actors in the protection and promotion of human rights. Its purpose is to explore the difficult and contentious politics of human rights, and how those political dimensions have been addressed at the national, regional, and especially international levels. Key features ...

This paper presents a roadmap for proactively engaging societal stakeholders to translate fundamental human rights into context-dependent design requirements through a structured, inclusive, and transparent process through the framework of Design for Values.

Human Rights and Social Work: Towards Rights-Based Practice helps students and practitioners understand how human rights concepts underpin the social work profession and inform their practice. This book examines the three generations of human rights and the systems of oppression that prevent citizens from participating in society as equals. It explores a range of topics, from ethics and ethical social work practice, to deductive and inductive approaches to human rights, and global and local human rights discourses. The language, processes, structures and theories of social work that are fundam...

This paper frames the ethical risks of hiring algorithms using international human rights law as a universal standard for determining algorithmic accountability and evaluates four types of algorithmic impact assessments in terms of how effectively they address the five human rights of job applicants implicated in hiring algorithms.

The world and all the social, political and productive relations contained in it have drastically changed with the rise of neo-liberalism. The speed of change is increasing at a vertiginous pace, as we witness how what once was considered implausible becomes real: Brexit; riots in France, Lebanon and Chile; the largest pandemic hitherto; and, most recently, worldwide protests sparked by the death of George Floyd in the United States. Underlying these political processes is the unresolved tension between the moral duty of ensuring human rights and dignity and the economic maxims advancing neo-l...

Key points of consensus are identified on how humanitarian practitioners can ensure that AI augments – rather than undermines – human interests while being rights-respecting, and specific tools and best practices that either already exist and can be adapted to the AI context, or need to be created, in order to operationalize this human rights framework.

This edited book brings you a collection of current, critical issues regarding the theory and practice of the European Court of Human Rights. The book is divided into three parts: procedural concerns, principles and jurisprudence, and interaction with national legal systems. Each chapter was written by an expert, with each author coming from a distinct background. The authors all presented at the 2019 University of Leipzig’s & University of Dresden’s 1st International Summer School on the European Court of Human Rights, with only select presenters asked to contribute to this book. The book...

The States’ specific right to derogate to human rights in circumstances of public emergency and the conditions of a legitimate derogation in the context of COVID-19 are introduced.

This collection explores current, critical issues regarding human rights theory and practice at the European Court of Human Rights. Taking a three part approach, it explores: procedural concerns, principles and jurisprudence, and interaction with national legal systems. With each contributor bringing their own unique perspective and expertise to key human questions of the day, it makes compelling reading for all human rights specialists, be they in academia or practice.

There are no doubt human rights advocates who would baulk at the claim that somehow human rights serves to advance the cause of neoliberalism. An important tool for protecting human dignity, advancing equality and supporting demands for justice cannot surely be complicit in the evident harms of neoliberal economic policies? Such harms are increasingly recognized by human rights practitioners, including non-governmental organizations and United Nations experts. To take a recent example, Philip Alston, the Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, described on a country visit to Sp...

Abstract The Blackstone’s Guide to the Human Rights Act 1998 provides clear, concise coverage of the operation and application of the Human Rights Act 1998, discussing the successes and criticisms of the Act and its possible amendment or its replacement. It also sets out the recent erosion of the universal applicability of the remedies in the Human Rights Act by the Illegal Migration Act 2023 and other current proposals. The Guide considers the case law of the European Court of Human Rights and the impact of Convention rights in landmark domestic judgments across a wide range of areas, includi...

The article outlines the automation which has taken place in the criminal justice domain and answers the question of what is being automated and who is being replaced thereby, and analyses encounters between artificial intelligence systems and the law by considering case law and by analysing some of the human rights affected.

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to undertake a “real-time” assessment of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the right to participate in hospitality and tourism and to illustrate where such rights are under threat. Design/methodology/approach This discussion is based on a review of current events, assessed through interpretation of a human rights lens. Findings Rights to participate in hospitality and tourism, particularly in parts of Asia, Europe and North America, were affected on a scale unprecedented in peacetime. Research limitations/implications The rights to participate in hospi...

This article aims to reorient thinking about the relationship between the long-standing social model of disability and the rapidly emerging human rights model. In particular, it contests the influential view that the latter develops and improves upon the former (the improvement thesis) and argues instead that the two models are complementary (the complementarity thesis). The article begins with a discursive analysis of relevant documents to investigate how each of the two models has been used in the crafting and monitoring of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. This h...

The article uses the frame of ‘vulnerability’ to consolidate the understanding of critical areas of concern and guide risk and impact mitigation efforts to protect human well-being.

The paper aims at analyzing the shared human rights focus and potential alliances between the trans depathologization perspective and the Human Rights in Patient Care framework.

Genetic variants associated with brain asymmetry overlapped with those associated with autism, educational attainment and schizophrenia, and were consistent with a known role of the cytoskeleton in left–right axis determination in other organs of invertebrates and frogs.

Abstract How does backlash from consolidated democracies affect the behavior of liberal international institutions? We argue that liberal international institutions have incentives to appease their democratic critics. Liberal institutions rely on democratic support for their continued effectiveness and can accommodate democratic critics at a lower legitimacy cost than non-democratic challengers. We examine this theory in the context of the European Court of Human Rights using a new dataset of rulings until 2019 and a coding of government positions during multiple reform conferences. Combining ...

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It is argued that voluntary guidelines are creating a set of de facto norms and re‐interpretation of the term ‘human rights’ for what would be considered ‘ethical’ practice in the field, exposing an urgent need for action by governments and civil society to develop more rigorous standards and regulatory measures, grounded in international human rights frameworks.