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economic and social rights Archives | Normative Power Europe?
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This blog is hosted on Ideas on Europe. Tag Archives: economic and social rights. Dear fellow jurists, human rights are about politics, and that’s perfectly fine. By Normative Power Europe? Posted in Global and International. Politics and Public Policy. Economic and social rights. Right to housing in Spain: What have the Romans ever done for us? By Normative Power Europe? Should we say thousands, tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands? Posted in Law and Justice. Politics and Public Policy. I must adm...
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Order versus Justice in the selection of the next UN Secretary General | Normative Power Europe?
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This blog is hosted on Ideas on Europe. Order versus Justice in the selection of the next UN Secretary General. The battle to replace Ban Ki-moon has begun. A recent article. By Colum Lynch ( @columlynch. This time some people are committed to change the way the Secretary General gets chosen. A number of civil society organisations are campaigning under the platform #1for7billion. The first generation are often called pluralists and the second one, solidarists . Cochran. Explains the difference between t...
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BRICS Archives | Normative Power Europe?
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This blog is hosted on Ideas on Europe. Are freedom, social justice, democracy and human rights appealing outside the West? By Normative Power Europe? The puzzle is probably as applicable to Europe as to the rest of the world. Looking at the way intelligence agencies have been spying over European citizens, or at the legacy of poverty that the austerity policies are leaving behind, we can legitimately wonder if freedom, social justice, democracy and human rights are at all […]. Posted in Current Affairs.
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What human rights norms do Western European countries promote? | Normative Power Europe?
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This blog is hosted on Ideas on Europe. What human rights norms do Western European countries promote? William Hague and Angelina Jolie are hosting a global summit in London to put an end to sexual violence in conflict. In June 2013, Madrid hosted the 5th world conference on (against) death penalty. It was organised by an abolitionist group ( ECPM. And sponsored by the Governments of Spain, France, Switzerland and Norway. And, related to this, what kind of norms do they promote? I hold a different opinion.
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democracy Archives | Normative Power Europe?
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This blog is hosted on Ideas on Europe. A short response to Bellamy. By Normative Power Europe? Last week a few members of King’s College London held the first session of our reading group on Law and Social Sciences. We discussed Richard Bellamy’s Rights as Democracy (2012), and we also read Isaiah Berlin’s seminal Two Concepts of Liberty (1958) with Skinner’s critique, A Third Concept of Liberty (2002). In his article, Bellamy […]. Posted in Law and Justice. Politics and Public Policy. 169; UACES 2016.
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Against the criminalisation of foreign fighters with the discourse of terrorism | Normative Power Europe?
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This blog is hosted on Ideas on Europe. Against the criminalisation of foreign fighters with the discourse of terrorism. Last week, interior ministers of the 15 countries sitting at the UN Security Council met to discuss foreign fighters. They did so as part of the follow-up of Resolution 2178 (2014). Which defines foreign fighters as people. And according to the Director of Europol, between 3,000 and 5,000. Of them would come from EU countries. As noted by Scheinin. The formulation of these provisions r...
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Right to housing in Spain: What have the Romans ever done for us? | Normative Power Europe?
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This blog is hosted on Ideas on Europe. Right to housing in Spain: What have the Romans ever done for us? Should we say thousands, tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands? I must admit we were not sure how to start the report Evicted Rights: Right to Housing and Mortgage Evictions in Spain. Published by Amnesty International Spain on 23 June 2015 (see here. Why is Amnesty International working on this now? Asked Monty Python. Well, among other things, they gave us contract law, including mortgages.
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Amnesty International Archives | Normative Power Europe?
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This blog is hosted on Ideas on Europe. Tag Archives: Amnesty International. Dear fellow jurists, human rights are about politics, and that’s perfectly fine. By Normative Power Europe? Posted in Global and International. Politics and Public Policy. Economic and social rights. Why Amnesty’s word still matters – #ICM2015. By Normative Power Europe? Posted in Global and International. Right to housing in Spain: What have the Romans ever done for us? By Normative Power Europe? I must admit we were not sure h...
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What the celebration of the 800th anniversary of Magna Carta tells us about Britain’s idea of human rights | Normative Power Europe?
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This blog is hosted on Ideas on Europe. What the celebration of the 800th anniversary of Magna Carta tells us about Britain’s idea of human rights. Yesterday, 15 June, Britain celebrated the 800. Not bad for someone who not long ago didn’t know. The literal translation of Magna Carta (it’s Great Charter , by the way). David Cameron is not alone in his enthusiasm. Others. Have claimed that we still enjoy the rights won in 1215. BBC refers to Magna Carta. Yet, leaving that aside for now, something else cal...
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“The Interview” and the sanctity of private business in public international law... since the 16th century | Normative Power Europe?
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This blog is hosted on Ideas on Europe. The Interview and the sanctity of private business in public international law… since the 16th century. By now it is well known that Sony was cyber attacked some weeks ago allegedly as a reaction to The Interview , a satirical film that depicts the assassination of Kim Jong-Un. I haven’t seen the film and I don’t know anybody who has seen it, but Barbara Demick, a North Korea specialist writing in New Yorker. That they are all for civil liberties: Freedom of speech...
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