Sentences with phrase «human rights instrument»

Where a provision of an international human rights instrument is transposed into a statute, the prima facie legislative intention is that the transposed text should bear the same meaning in the domestic statute as it bears in the treaty.

In construing the provisions of an international human rights instrument, Australian courts give weight to the views of specialist international bodies such as the European Court of Human Rights [32] and the human rights treaty bodies established under the provisions of particular human rights treaties.

The most recent UN human rights instrument is of course the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD), negotiated and fought for by disabled people across the world.

Lawyer Ayisi explained that the Charter is binding on African states because * The African Charter on Human and Peoples» Rights (also known as the Banjul Charter) is an International Human Rights Instrument that is intended to promote and protect Human Rights and basic freedoms on the African continent *

As a human rights instrument, the International Code provides governments with a very specific set of policies to benefit a particular target population; in this case pregnant women and new mothers.

[1] The International Code was adopted by the World Health Assembly in 1981 and has since become an accepted human rights instrument.

If one were to take totality of some fifty major international and regional human rights instruments the number of rights would obviously increase even further.

The right to life and equality is enshrined in a number of international human rights instruments.

Prohibitions on abortion by sovereign states are not only compatible with the requirements of international human rights instruments but are in fact the most probable interpretation of those requirements.

The letter, signed inter alia by the EU ambassador, Francesca Mosca, cited various international human rights instruments to claim that abortion was a «fundamental human right».

«The EU is still a long way from meeting its obligations under World Health Assembly Resolutions and human rights instruments.

The United Nations has published an expert consensus interpretation on how several United Nations human rights instruments protect LGBT persons: it is called the Yogyakarta Principles.

«In a case involving the Republic of Niger, the ECOWAS Court of Justice stated that «slavery is considered as a serious violation of human dignity and is formally prohibited by all international human rights instruments.

Human Rights in Codes of Ethics of Scientific and Professional Societies Language that expresses commitment of scientific and professional societies to the principles enshrined in international human rights instruments.

«The University of Minnesota Human Rights Library houses one of the largest collections of more than sixty thousand core human rights documents, including several hundred human rights treaties and other primary international human rights instruments.

He then discusses the various attributes of intellectual property rights that are protected by international or regional human rights instruments and explores approaches that have been used to resolve conflicts between human rights and the non-human rights aspects of intellectual property protection.

Therefore, when international human rights instruments are invoked they often fail to provide justice for women.

Most human rights instruments only empower states to act against states as opposed to empowering individuals or groups to act in their own interests.

78 This is evident even in the most visionary human rights instruments.

This can be the only explanation as to why no state, the entity with the power to address such atrocities, has acted on behalf of these women via the human rights instruments accessible only to them.

The affirmation of the indivisibility and interdependence of all human rights, as expressed in most international human rights instruments (3), is often a mere rhetorical affirmation that conceals the fact that the satisfaction of civil and political rights prevails over the so - called second - generation rights.

This point is underscored in several soft - law instruments including in the 1999 UNESCO Declaration on Science and the Use of Scientific Knowledge, according to which «[a] ll scientists should commit themselves to high ethical standards, and a code of ethics based on relevant norms enshrined in international human rights instruments should be established for scientific professions.»

Furthermore, it offers an interesting perspective from which we can observe the development of an area of freedom, security and justice in Europe, and how the relationships between the two main European human rights instruments — the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the EU («CFREU») and the European Convention of Human Rights («ECHR») and the related case law emanating from the courts of Luxembourg and Strasbourg — are evolving.

Moreover, the Court was not inclined to rely on or invoke human rights instruments.

Section III then critically assesses the coverage of the essential elements clauses, with a specific focus on the conduct that is required from the contracting parties, the «common values» which are included in such clauses and the human rights instruments they refer to.

houses... more than twenty - three thousand core human rights documents, including several hundred human rights treaties and other primary international human rights instruments.

Slavery is prohibited in a series of modern international treaties and human rights instruments.

In addition, both types of institution are subject to human rights law, such as provincial and federal human rights legislation, the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and international human rights instruments that Canada has ratified.

The Judge considered that the right to privacy, although not among the fundamental rights that are affirmed in the Bill of Rights, was one recognised in international human rights instruments and had also received increasing recognition in New Zealand law.

Sharon McIvor, Pamela Palmater and Shelagh Day, Chair of FAFIA's Human Rights Committee, will request that the IACHR urgently communicate with Canada regarding its legislative failure to grant equal status to Indigenous women and their descendants immediately and take an active role in monitoring Canada's compliance with its human rights obligations to Indigenous women and girls under regional human rights instruments.

They are also regularly involved in advising and bringing proceedings under other human rights instruments such as the United Nations» International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights as well as EU law.

The court may be asked to consider arguments for a «modernization» of the Hague Convention mechanism, in particular, whether it should be reinterpreted through the lens of the rights of the child arising under human rights instruments (e.g., the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms or the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child).

The right to housing is an element within the right to an adequate standard of living and is recognised as central to the realisation of all economic, social and cultural rights.32 The right to adequate housing is also recognized in other international human rights instruments including; the Universal Declaration of Human Rights; the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women; the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination.

Although the Mabo decision (50) was influenced by contemporary international human rights instruments and standards, especially in respect of the norm of non-discrimination, (51) and by the jurisprudence of the International Court of Justice in respect of the doctrine of terra nullius, (52) it is the interweaving of international law and United States law (especially the Marshall US Supreme Court decisions in respect of Indigenous rights) that is more deeply embedded in the Mabo decision.

They also raise concerns about the extent to which the Court in De Rose has unnecessarily expanded the NTA's requirement for connection and interpreted it in a way that may infringe on the right enshrined in human rights instruments to participate in the cultural life of the community.

[18] In doing so, it elaborates the rights already set out in human rights instruments, including the treaties to which Australia is a party.

Recommendation 5: That the Government negotiate with Aboriginal peoples regarding community justice procedures and the use of alternative dispute resolution mechanisms and processes that recognise the diversity of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander laws that are consistent with all international human rights instruments.

The CERD Committee has further stated explained, «Although the Commonwealth government is responsible for ratifying international human rights instruments, the implementation of their provisions requires the active participation of the states and territories...», CERD Concluding Observations on Australia, UN Doc: A / 49/18, para 542.

The obligatory nature of international human right instruments with regard to the administration of native title under the NTA is further strengthened by the inclusion of section 7 (2) in the NTA.

Although the Commonwealth government is responsible for ratifying international human rights instruments, the implementation of their provisions requires the active participation of the states and territories... [145]

Where this is the case they should, as a matter of law as well as principle, exercise their powers under the NTA consistently with relevant international human rights instruments, and in particular the prohibition on racial discrimination found in the ICERD and Australia's Racial Discrimination Act.

[16] In doing so, it elaborates the rights set out in human rights instruments, including the treaties to which Australia is a party.

The right to adequate housing is contained in a number of international human rights instruments including; the Universal Declaration of Human Rights; the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women; the Convention on the Rights of the Child, and the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination.

Human rights issues that may be considered in the UPR can include anything that is contained in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and human rights instruments to which a country is party (i.e., human rights treaties that have been ratified by the country).

State and territory governments and other government institutions should also exercise their powers under the NTA in ways that are consistent with the international human rights instruments to which Australia is a party, including the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination (the «ICERD»).

Commonwealth and State governments negotiate with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples about amending relevant legislation to reflect the rights of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples to live in accordance with their laws, customs and traditions, consistent with all international human rights instruments, and to ensure that Australian laws will not impose unnecessary restrictions upon the exercise of those rights.

Recommendation 2: That the Government negotiate with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples about amending relevant legislation to reflect the rights of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples to live in accordance with their laws, customs and traditions, consistent with all international human rights instruments, and to ensure that Australian laws will not impose unnecessary restrictions upon the exercise of those rights.

Commonwealth, State and Territory governments negotiate with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples regarding community justice procedures and the use of alternative dispute resolution mechanisms and processes that recognise the diversity of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander laws that are consistent with all international human rights instruments.

Not exact matches

If we think of the corporation (for - profit or otherwise) as an instrument or technology by means of which people seek to achieve their goals, then it becomes clear that the rights (or «rights») of different kinds of corporate persons depend not on what kind of entity they are, but on the the demonstrable goals of the human beings involved.

Two closed trial sessions took place on August 22 and September 24 in the Islamic Revolutionary Court of Judge Abolqasem Salavati, who is known to human rights organizations for being an instrument of Iran's security apparatus.