The 60 or so nations that subscribe to the common law tradition had for centuries broadly accepted the same legal definitions of what constitutes a charity. In recent years, however, a number of countries have embarked on charity law reform processes, designed to strengthen the regulatory framework and to review and encode common law concepts. A primary driver of reform was the need to modernise national charity law and ensure human rights compatibility. In light of these reforms, this book takes stock of how charity law is adapting to face the challenges presented by human rights.
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The 60 or so nations that subscribe to the common law tradition had for centuries broadly accepted the same legal definitions of what constitutes a...
Business corporations can and do violate human rights all over the world and they are often not being held to account. Emblematic cases and situations such as the state of the Niger Delta and the collapse of the Rana Plaza factory are examples of what appears to be systemic corporate human rights abuses which are not being adequately prevented and remedied. The picture seems to be one of limited accountability of business in the human rights area. "Business and human rights" as a field seeks to enhance the accountability of business companies and business people in the human rights area...
Business corporations can and do violate human rights all over the world and they are often not being held to account. Emblematic cases and situati...
The human rights of communities in many resource-rich, weak governance States are adversely affected, not only by the acts of States and their agents, but also by powerful non-State actors. Contemporary phenomena such as globalisation, privatisation and the proliferation of internal armed conflict have all contributed to the increasing public influence of these entities and the correlative decline in State power.
This book responds to the persistent challenges stemming from non-State actors linked to extractive industries. In light of the intersecting roles of multinational...
The human rights of communities in many resource-rich, weak governance States are adversely affected, not only by the acts of States and their agen...
Business corporations can and do violate human rights all over the world, and they are often not held to account. Emblematic cases and situations such as the state of the Niger Delta and the collapse of the Rana Plaza factory are examples of corporate human rights abuses which are not adequately prevented and remedied. Business and human rights as a field seeks to enhance the accountability of business companies and businesspeople in the human rights area, or, to phrase it differently, to bridge the accountability gap. Bridging the accountability gap is to be understood as both setting...
Business corporations can and do violate human rights all over the world, and they are often not held to account. Emblematic cases and situations s...
As of the end of 2015, there were 40.8 civilians who had been internally displaced by conflicts and effects of natural disasters in various parts of the world. Internally displaced persons (IDPs) are currently the largest group of persons receiving assistance from some of the main international humanitarian organisations. With the largest concentration of internally displaced persons (IDPs), the African continent has been the worst affected region. While previously IDPs have largely been neglected under international law, the first-ever continental binding treaty on internal displacement,...
As of the end of 2015, there were 40.8 civilians who had been internally displaced by conflicts and effects of natural disasters in various parts o...
There is a clear overlap between securing socio-economic human rights for all persons and arranging adequate access to essential public services across society. Both are necessary to realise thriving, inclusive societies, with adequate living standards for all, based on human dignity. This edited volume brings together the two topics for the first time. In particular, it identifies the common challenges for essential public services provision and socio-economic human rights realisation, and it explores how socio-economic rights law can be harnessed to reinforce better...
There is a clear overlap between securing socio-economic human rights for all persons and arranging adequate access to essential public services ac...
This book sails in uncharted waters. It takes a human rights based approach to tax havens, and is a detailed analysis of structures and the laws which generate and support these. It makes plain the unscrupulous or merely indifferent ways in which, using tax havens, businesses and individuals systematically undermine and for all practical purposes eliminate access to remedies under international human rights law. It exposes as abusive of human rights a complex structural web of trusts, companies, partnerships, foundations, nominees and fiduciaries; secrecy, immunity and smoke screens. It...
This book sails in uncharted waters. It takes a human rights based approach to tax havens, and is a detailed analysis of structures and the laws wh...
Recent decades have seen many changes too adoption law and practice with a sharp decline in the voluntary relinquishment of children, an increase of children in the public care systems of developed nations and the decrease in children being made available for intercountry adoption by developing countries. In addition human rights has increasingly come to bear on adoption in relation to issues such as the ethical dilemmas inherent in intercountry adoption and the sometimes conflicting rights of adoptees and birth parents in relation to accessing agency birth records.
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Recent decades have seen many changes too adoption law and practice with a sharp decline in the voluntary relinquishment of children, an increase o...
