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What are indigenous peoples?
Human dignity and human security in times of terrorism
In this book, it is explained that despite a current drop in the number of deaths, terrorism should still be considered a serious and widespread problem. However, the responses to this phenomenon are often more problematic from a long-term perspective. With the human rights framework under serious pressure, this edited volume offers a timely, important and critical in-depth analysis of human digni
Taking stock : Relevance of human rights norms in 'other' international courts
Unilateral exceptions to international law : Systematic legal analysis and critique of doctrines that seek to deny or reduce the applicability of human rights norms in the fight against terrorism
It is well known that many governments have resorted to a wide range of constructions to justify, underi nternational law, their unilateral exceptions to human rights in the name of countering terrorism. This paper seeks to take stock of a range of arguments, doctrines or constructionsth at states may resort to when seeking to justify their unilateral exceptions to human rights norms in the fight
The Human Rights Committee’s Pronouncements on the Right to an Effective Remedy : An Illustration of the Legal Nature of the Committee’s Work under the Optional Protocol
Minority rights : Additional rights or added protection?
The United Nations international covenant on civil and political rights : Article 27 and other provisions
The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (‘ICCPR’) is the only human rights treaty that has universal coverage both geographically and in respect of its personal scope, and that includes a specific provision on the rights of minorities, or to be more exact, on the rights of members of minorities. Here the Covenant differs also from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which d
The Right of a people to enjoy its culture : Towards a Nordic Saami rights convention
Preface
Constitutionalism and Approaches to Rights in the Nordic Countries
Finland's success in combatting COVID-19 : Mastery, miracle or mirage?
Assessing human rights compliance during COVID-19
Leading the World Requires a New Approach to Terrorism, Based on a Moral Principle
The Impact of Human Rights Law on General International Law
Traditional international law aims to protect the values and interests of states. The rapidly increasing corpus of international human rights law (including international humanitarian law and international criminal law) increasingly challenges the basic tenets of general international law. In order to become accepted as the law of the world community, general international law needs to reflect bet
International Human Rights Law
Consistent with Article 38 of the Statute of International Court of Justice, the primary sources of international human rights law can be identified as treaty, custom, and general principles of law derived from national legal systems. Treaty provisions in human rights law are often textually fairly open-ended and hence will need to be read in the light of institutionalized practices of interpretat
Impact of post-9/11 counter-terrorism measures on all human rights
Towards evidence-based discussion on surveillance : A Rejoinder to Richard A. Epstein
Why We Worry : A Sociological Explanation
Something must have changed in society. We weren’t always this worried. Not always caught up in disastrous scenarios in our minds. What is this nagging voice in our head? Why won’t it stop, and why are we so fixated on it? In Why We Worry, Roland Paulsen paints a broad picture of the cultural variations and historical evolution of anxiety. Through this lens, he invites readers to explore the parad