Human rights law and international treaties play a crucial role in promoting and protecting fundamental rights across the globe. However, recent research indicates that many international treaties ...
Professor Jeremy Rabkin, in a paper written for the First Principles on Human Rights project, argues for an unapologetic defense of U.S. sovereignty and America’s process for treaty ratification.
The principal international human rights documents clearly protect the ... It should be noted that although the Standard Minimum Rules are not a treaty, they constitute an authoritative guide ...
If Australia signs an international human rights treaty it is making a preliminary endorsement of the treaty. Signing the instrument does not create a binding legal obligation but does demonstrate the ...
In its current form, the international investment treaty regime may stymie the business and human rights agenda in various ways. The regime may incentivize governments to favour the protection of ...
The treaty views disability as a result of ... clarifies the content of human rights principles and their application to the situation of persons with disabilities; provides an authoritative ...
whether in the forms of treaties, customary international law, general principles, regional agreements and domestic law, through which human rights are expressed and guaranteed. Indeed ...