War and peace: the ANZAC spirit and human rights

A series of papers given by the various speakers at the Australian Human Rights Commission’s War and Peace: The Anzac spirit and human rights 2014 seminar. Summary Every year around Anzac Day, Australians and New Zealanders remember those who fought in all wars and conflicts over the last 100 years. As the national human rights institutions of Australia and New Zealand we wanted to mark the anniversary of the start of the First World War by examining the relationship between the Anzac spirit and the evolution of international human rights.   We therefore convened a seminar on the 1st of May 2014 that examined the following questions: What was it that New Zealanders and Australians believed they were fighting for during the First World War? Is it merely a romantic myth that the Anzacs fought for individual freedom and liberty against the threat of national aggrandisement and racial superiority? Was it a war of ideas between the individualist democratic enlightened French and English tradition and the German heroic ideal of sacrifice for the common good? In short, did such lofty ideas as liberty really stimulate the Anzac bravery in a conflict that was so many thousands of miles from us? How did the Anzac experiences from 1914-18 shape and articulate the global human rights based regime that we have 100 years later in the 21st Century?       &nbsp

Derecho internacional de los derechos humanos y aborto en América Latina

América Latina presenta algunas de las leyes más restrictivas del mundo en materia de aborto. Si bien sólo tres países—Chile, El Salvador y República Dominicana—no contemplan ningún tipo de excepción o rebaja de la pena por la realización de abortos, en la mayoría de los países y jurisdicciones la ley incluye excepciones a la pena sólo cuando resulta necesario para salvar la vida de una mujer embarazada y en otras circunstancias puntuales específicamente definidas. Aún en los casos donde el aborto no está penalizado por ley, las mujeres suelen tener un acceso severamente limitado al mismo como consecuencia de la ausencia de regulaciones adecuadas y de la voluntad política necesaria. El acceso al aborto seguro y legal puede salvar la vida y facilitar la igualdad de las mujeres. Las decisiones de las mujeres en materia de aborto no tienen que ver solamente con sus cuerpos en términos abstractos, sino que, en términos más amplios, se encuentran relacionadas con sus derechos humanos inherentes a su condición de persona, a su dignidad y privacidad. Los obstáculos existentes para este tipo de decisiones en América Latina interfieren con la capacidad de las mujeres de ejercer sus derechos, dando lugar a prácticas clandestinas e inseguras que constituyen una de las principales causas de mortalidad materna en gran parte de la región

Forced Child Labor in Uzbekistan’s 2008 Spring Agricultural Season: A Report Based on Surveys in Two Rural Districts in Uzbekistan

This document is part of a digital collection provided by the Martin P. Catherwood Library, ILR School, Cornell University, pertaining to the effects of globalization on the workplace worldwide. Special emphasis is placed on labor rights, working conditions, labor market changes, and union organizing.ILRF_Uzbekistan_Child_Labor_2008.pdf: 28 downloads, before Oct. 1, 2020

Annual Review 2011-2012

Highlights of the 2011-2012 Annual Review include our work: launching a UT-hosted website containing millions of digitized documents from the Historic Archive of the National Police of Guatemala, contributing to a MacArthur Foundation study on the use of electronic evidence in human rights cases, creating an online exhibit on Frances T. "Sissy" Farenthold, and exploring the promises and pitfalls of property rights at our eighth annual conference.UT Librarie