The First and Second Generation of Human Rights

Human Rights Review, 1999

The Georgia Journal of International and Comparative Law, 1977

South African Journal on Human Rights, 1987

The state of emergency has continued during the period under review, with no changes being made to the security regulations. Several orders restricting funerals were issued by commissioners of police. Amendments were made to the press regulations, which are discussed in the MEDIA section below. The State President gave notice, in terms of the Republic of South Africa Constitution Act lOO of 1983, that as of 31 July 1987, the Minister of Law and Order will table the names of detainees who have been held for more than 30 days (GN 1710 GG 10857 of 31 July 1987). This function, in terms of s3(4) of the Public Safety Act 3 of 1953, was previously performed by the Minister of Justice. Detentions Government figures show that l 439 people have been detained for 30 days or more since the declaration of the current state of emergency on ll June 1987. The total number of detainees held for 30 days or more since the beginning of the last state of emergency on 12 June 1986 is 16 282 (Weekly Mail 25 September 1987). Mr Vlok, Minister of Law and Order, announced that 41 children had recently been released from detention, and that there were now only 69 children under 18 being held in terms of emergency provisions (The Argus 20 October 1987). According to the Detainees' Parents Support Committee (DPSC), between 200 and 300 children between 16 and_ 18 years of age are still in detention (Weekly M ail 16 October 1987). Their figures show that between January and September 1987, 292 people were detained in terms of the Internal Security Act 74 of 1982. Of these, 228 are still in detention. This does not include emergency detainees (Report for August/ September (DPSC)). In an affidavit the Minister of Law and Order stated that he had received 4 600 requests from lawyers for reasons for the detention of their clients. Consequently, they had had to wait up to four weeks for an answer(DPSC Report on State of Emergency 31 August 1987). The death ofNobandla Elda Bani in North End Prison, Port Elizabeth, on 29 July brought the death toll of emergency detainees to four, and hers was the sixty-fifth death in security detention since 1963. She was the first woman to die in detention. She was a diabetic, and spent most of the last

2011

A primary mission of international non-governmental organizations (INGOs) like Amnesty International (AI) and Human Rights Watch (HRW) is to monitor the human rights records of governments, calling attention to state transgressions and pressuring governments for reform. As part of their activities, human rights INGOs periodically allege that a government is responsible for ill-treatment or torture; other times, they accuse a government of demonstrating a pattern of abusive behavior.

2018

Dissertação de Mestrado em Estudos AfricanosO principal objetivo dessa tese é investigar quais os valores culturais e as crenças metafisicas que subjazem à prática cultural do infanticídio de crianças-irân e os consequentes desafios aos direitos humanos internacionais legalmente definidos. A pesquisa foca-se no fenómeno das crianças-irân, especificamente entre os Pepeis (etnia maioritária no setor de Biombo, Guiné-Bissau, onde foi desenvolvido o trabalho de campo). A análise desta prática não foi alheia ao sistema metafísico animista subjacente, frisando a importância atribuída às forças sobrenaturais e às funções que são chamados a desempenhar na realidade física. O maior contributo desta pesquisa reside na apresentação dos desafios que a prática coloca aos direitos humanos internacionalmente e legalmente definidos. Primeiramente, discute-se o aparente antagonismo entre algumas práticas culturais e os direitos humanos, à luz do debate sobre o direito à cultura. Em segundo lugar, an...

Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities

That the field of Literary Studies and Human Rights have been intersecting for some time to produce what has been termed an 'interdiscipline' is old news. Critics like Lynn Hunt, Joseph Slaughter, Elizabeth Goldberg, Alexandra Schultheis Moore and James Dawes, pioneering the field, and anthologies such as The Routledge Companion to Literature and Human Rights (2016) and Theoretical Perspectives on Human Rights and Literature (2012), to mention just two, produced in the recent years have more or less mapped the field thoroughly. Emphasizing the role of form, language and genre, while simultaneously alert to questions of injurability, trauma and the role of life-sustaining environments and collapsing social ontologies, critical work represented in these volumes have defined the field. Then, explorations in the visual imagery of Human Rights in works such as Visualizing Human Rights (2018) have begun to look at the visual sign systems-mainly photographs-in which the Human Rights theme has found its place. Other studies have traced Human Rights themes in children's literature, dystopian fiction, popular films and of course canonical texts from literature-from Shakespeare to the sentimental novel. What is abundantly clear from such works is that Human Rights discourses have taken multiple forms, tones and styles. Memoirs, fiction, popular culture can equally encode these discourses as an Amnesty Report-and in the process reach a wider audience too.

International journal of multidisciplinary and current research, 2017

Human rights are those rights and conditions conferred to human beings by virtue of being human. Human rights are commonly understood as those rights which are necessary to live a standard and decent life. Human rights are offered by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in relation to matters such as security of person, slavery, torture, protection of the law, freedom of movement & speech, religion, and assembly, and rights to social security, work, health, education, culture, & citizenship etc. These rights are awarded to all human being on the basis of equality and these are equally available to all men and women irrespective of any differences. However, in the existing human rights framework violations of women’s rights have been overlooked and their experiences have not been counted. Realization of discrimination against women within prevailing human rights framework has led to the growth of protests all over the world to recognize various rights specific to women’s lives a...