Second Class Rights: How Amnesty International & Human Rights Watch Fail Women in the Middle East

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne Herzberg
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Middle East ◽  
International Human Rights ◽  
Amnesty International ◽  
International Human ◽  
Class Rights

scholarly journals Virunga National Park - Steder og rettigheder for gorillaer og mennesker i Afrika

2015 ◽  
Vol 43 (119) ◽  
pp. 13-34
Author(s):  
Frits Andersen
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Animal Rights ◽  
National Park ◽  
Global Scale ◽  
Short Description ◽  
Reform Movements ◽  
International Human Rights ◽  
Amnesty International ◽  
International Human ◽  
Congo Free State

The article outlines some of the historical traces for the eco-crisis that presently threatens the first and most outstanding national park in Africa, homeland of the mountain gorilla. After a short description of the site, the article presents the Congo Reform Movement’s campaign against the bloody suppression in the Congo Free State around 1900, often referred to as the Red Rubber-regime. The Congo Reform Movements “Atrocity Meetings” are considered to be the first human rights campaign, because they established the rhetorical models that we find today in Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and Global Witness. The article argues that we can detect similar and highly problematic structures in the animal rights campaigns which took on a global scale in the 1970s – initiated among others by Dian Fossey and her famous and infamous fight for the protection of mountain gorillas in the Virunga mountains. Both human rights campaigns and animal rights campaigns share a responsibility, I argue, for the eco-crisis at Virunga. Finally I present the documentary Virunga from 2014 as a model and as a rhetorical alternative.

A Human Rights Approach to Statelessness in the Middle East

2002 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 527-552
Author(s):  
Curtis F. Doebbler
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Middle East ◽  
International Law ◽  
Political Change ◽  
International Human Rights Law ◽  
Human Rights Law ◽  
International Human Rights ◽  
Adequate Response ◽  
International Human

Despite repeated attempts to eliminate statelessness and to provide for the protection of stateless persons, international law has not been able to provide an adequate response to these problems. In the Middle East the problem has continued to grow as social and political change pushes people into becoming stateless and fails to provide those who are stateless with adequate protection. The treaties that have attempted to prevent this practice have failed. At the same time the lex specialis aimed at protecting people from the consequences of statelessness have also failed. The result has been a lacuna in the protection of stateless persons. This article suggests that a step towards filling this gap might be made by applying general international human rights law to protect stateless persons.

Part 2 Interrelations between Constitutionalism and Sharī’ah: Antagonism or Complementarity?, 2.1 Constitutionalism in Islamic Countries: A Survey from the Perspective of International Law

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wolfrum Rüdiger
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Middle East ◽  
International Law ◽  
Historical Development ◽  
Islamic Law ◽  
International Human Rights ◽  
Human Rights Treaties ◽  
International Human ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter examines the influence of international law and Islamic law on the constitutions of Islamic states. It discusses the historical development of the relationship between Islamic law and international law; reference to human rights and international law in the constitutions of Islamic states (Africa, Middle East, and Asia); and the impact of the Sharīʻah on the ratification of international human rights treaties.

Part II Historical and Legal Sources, Ch.7 The Foundations of Justice and Human Rights in Early Legal Texts and Thought

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lauren Paul Gordon
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Middle East ◽  
International Human Rights Law ◽  
Human Rights Law ◽  
Ancient China ◽  
International Human Rights ◽  
Ancient India ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
Legal Texts ◽  
International Human

This article examines the contributions of early legal texts and thoughts to the development of the concept of justice and human rights. It analyses ideas about justice and human rights in ancient Near and Middle East, ancient China, ancient India, Classical Greece and Rome, the Medieval Period, the Renaissance, and the Enlightenment Period. It considers the relevant works of several ancient thinkers including Mencius, Plato and Cicero and suggests that they provided significant lessons and laid the essential foundations for developments that eventually would result in international human rights law.

Nongovernmental International Human Rights Organizations: The Case of Hong Kong

2014 ◽  
Vol 47 (03) ◽  
pp. 642-653
Author(s):  
Wai-man Lam
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Hong Kong ◽  
Final Analysis ◽  
Fund Raising ◽  
Hybrid Regimes ◽  
International Human Rights ◽  
Amnesty International ◽  
Human Rights Organizations ◽  
International Human ◽  
Developed World

ABSTRACTThis article examines the contributions of nongovernmental international human rights organizations (NGIHRO) in promoting a broad sense of human rights in hybrid regimes using the cases of Amnesty International Hong Kong (AIHK), Green Peace Hong Kong (GPHK), and Oxfam Hong Kong (OHK). It contends that NGIHROs have made significant contributions to public education and fund-raising in Hong Kong. However, with regard to the human rights conditions, it is erroneous to consider Hong Kong as part of the developed world. Together with other probable political considerations, doing so may have led to gaps in the organizations’ roles and functions as advocates for human rights in Hong Kong. In the final analysis, this article uses the political protests in Hong Kong to illustrate the importance of addressing the implications of demands for preserving the local identity and alternative lifestyles in the broader understanding of human rights.

scholarly journals Amnesty International dan Penghapusan Hukuman Mati di Malaysia

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 235-257
Author(s):  
Yanti Kristina Sianturi ◽  
Irza Khurun'in
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Death Penalty ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Political Rights ◽  
Transnational Advocacy ◽  
International Human Rights ◽  
Death Row ◽  
Amnesty International ◽  
Death Row Inmates ◽  
International Human

Malaysia is a country where the death penalty is still present and frequently practiced. It is due to different understandings of the death penalty itself. The absence of the Malaysian government in various international human rights treaties also increases unfair trials on death row inmates. The high number of death row inmates in Malaysia represents a severe human rights violation. The abolition of the death penalty is one of the current global human rights agendas. It goes against the right to live regulated by various international human rights instruments, such as the ICCPR (International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights) and the Declaration of Human Rights. One of the INGOs actively advocating the abolition of the death penalty in Malaysia is Amnesty International. This study looks at Amnesty International’s transnational advocacy tactics in encouraging the death penalty abolition in Malaysia from 2015 to 2018. The method used is descriptive research by collecting primary and secondary data and using transnational advocacy networks by Keck and Sikkink. The results of this research show that the efforts used by Amnesty International in this advocacy include information politics, symbolic politics, leverage politics, and accountability politics.

Defying Communism

2020 ◽  
pp. 138-160
Author(s):  
Aryeh Neier
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Cold War ◽  
Soviet Bloc ◽  
International Human Rights ◽  
Amnesty International ◽  
Human Rights Organizations ◽  
Human Rights Movement ◽  
International Human ◽  
The Cold War ◽  
Communist Countries

This chapter examines the rise of the international human rights movement as significant force in world affairs. It draws attention to the Cold War, in which the context of international human rights took place. It also talks about the “Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch” as one of the leading non-governmental human rights organizations operating globally that was established at different stages of the Cold War era. The chapter focuses on the emergence of the human rights movement in the communist countries, as well as its development on the other side of the Cold War divide. It illustrates the demonstration over the arrests of Andrei Sinyavsky and Yuli Daniel in 1965, which marked the beginning of the emergence of a human rights movement in the Soviet bloc countries.

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