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Volume 15 of INTERIGHTS' Bulletin

 

No 3 Positive Obligations of States and the Protection of Human Rights

Articles Include:

 

Positive Obligations of States and the Protection of Human Rights
Dr Silvia Borelli
Research Fellow in Public International Law at University College London

 

Towards Global Responsibility for Human Rights Protection: A Sketch of International Legal Developments
Helen Duffy
Legal Director of INTERIGHTS (maternity leave May)

Adjudicating the Positive Duties Imposed by Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
Professor Sandra Liebenberg
Chair in Human Rights Law at Stellenbosch University, South Africa

 

Positive Obligations to Ensure Equality
Professor Sir Bob Hepple QC
Chairman of the European Roma Rights Centre, Budapest

 

The African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights and Positive Obligations
Dr Alain Didier Olinga
Research Director and Head of Department of International Law at the University of Yaounde II

 

Positive Obligations in the Inter-American Human Rights System
Tara J Melish and Ana Aliverti
Legal Adviser and Staff Attorney at the Center for Justice and International Law, Washington

 

Positive Obligations from Strasbourg – Where do the Boundaries Lie?
Philip Leach
Director of the European Human Rights Advocacy Centre at the London Metropolitan University

 

Implementing Judgments on the Positive Obligations of States
Geoff Budlender
Advocate of the High Court of South Africa

 

An International Right to Environment: a New Generation?
Alice Palmer
Director of the Foundation for International Environmental Law and Development, London
 

Preventing Slavery: Positive Obligations under the ECHR after Siliadin v France
Dr Cesare Pitea
Researcher in International Law at the University of Parma

Jus Cogens and Review of Security Council Resolutions before the Court of First Instance: The Cases of Kadi and Yusuf
Simon Olleson
Barrister at 13 Old Square Chambers, London

Small Steps: Prosecuting the Recruitment of Child Soldiers – the Case of Sam Hinga Norman
Adjunct Professor Noah Novogrodsky and Mathew Goldstein
Director of the International Human Rights Program and Researcher of the Program at the University of Toronto

UN Human Rights Committee Decision in K.L. v Peru
Pardiss Kebriaei
Legal Adviser for International Litigation at the Center for Reproductive Rights, New York

 

Prohibition on Racial Discrimination in Access to Nationality: Case of the Girls Yean and Bosico v The Dominican Republic
Francisco Quintana
Lawyer at the Inter-American Court of Human Rights

Leyla Sahin : Out of Scale Proportionality?
Dr Basak Çali
Lecturer in Human Rights at University College London

 

Violence against Women: Private Actors and the Obligation of Due Diligence
Professor Andrew Byrnes and Maria Graterol
Professor of International Law and Visiting Research Associate at the Australia Human Rights Centre, University of New South Wales, Australia

 

Reform of UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies: Summary of Recent International Discussions
Linda Pisciotta
Ph.D. candidate at the University of Milan-Bicocca

 

No 2 HIV/AIDS and Human Rights

 

Articles Include:

 

HIV/AIDS and Human Rights
James Welsh
Health and Human Rights Coordinator at Amnesty International, London

 

The Obligation of Governments in a Time of HIV and AIDS
Frans Viljoen
Professor of Law at the Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria

 

Using Law: The Impact of HIV/AIDS on Women and Children
Dr Jenny Kuper
Lecturer at the Law Department and Development Studies Institute, London School of Economics

 

HIV Prevention for Prisoners: A Public Health and Human Rights Imperative
Ralf Jurgens and Glenn Betteridge
Formerly of Canadian HIV/AIDS Network, Montreal

 

HIV/AIDS and Criminal Law in England and Wales: Criminalisation of HIV Transmission
James Chalmers
Lecturer in Law at the University of Aberdeen

 

Opposing the Criminalisation of HIV Transmission
Chris Morley
Policy and Publications Co-ordinator at the George House Trust, Manchester

 

HIV/AIDS Vaccine Trials and Human Rights
Ruth Macklin
Professor at the Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York

 

Clinical Trials and Fundamental Rights: the Tenofovir Experience in Cameroon
Judge Yvonne Akoa
Court of First Instance, Yaounde, Cameroon

 

HIV and the Americans with Disabilities Act: Unintended Challenges for Plaintiffs
Jennifer Sinton and Jonathan Givner
Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund, New York

 

Is the UN Providing Leadership on HIV/AIDS and Human Rights?
Joanne Csete
Executive Director of the Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network, Montreal

 

Intellectual Property and Access to Drugs for People Living with HIV/AIDS
Simon Walker
Human Rights Officer, UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, Geneva

 

State Obligations to Victims/Survivors of Domestic Violence: Ms AT v Hungary
Andrew Byrnes and Marcia Graterol
Professor of Law, Australian National University, Canberra

 

The 'Suspended Knot': The Judgment Suspending the Right to Marry
Anand Grover and Veena Johari
Lawyers Collective HIV/AIDS Unit, India

 

Litigating HIV/AIDS-Related Cases - Festus Odafe & Ors v Attorney General of the Federal Republic of Nigeria & Ors
John Oziegbe
Legal Resources Consortium, Nigeria

 

Living with HIV/AIDS Not a Bar to Deportation
Judith Oder
Legal Officer for Africa, INTERIGHTS

 

No 1 A Human Rights Court for Africa

 

Articles Include:

 

A Human Rights Court for Africa
Chaloka Beyani
Professor of International Law and Human Rights at the London School of Economics

 

Introduction to the African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights
Adama Dieng
Assistant Secretary-General of the UN and Registrar of the ICTR

 

The African Union and the Implementation of the Decisions of the African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights
Ben Kioko
Legal Counsel of the Commission of the African Union

 

The Relationship between the African Commission and the African Court: Lessons from the Inter-American System
Ariel E. Dulitzky
Senior Specialist in Human Rights at the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights

 

Protecting Human Rights in Africa through Supra-national Courts
Nsongurua J. Udombana
Senior Lecturer in the Department of Jurisprudence and International Law at the University of Lagos

 

Statement from the Seminar on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in Africa held in Pretoria, Sept 2004

 

Access to the African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights for Victims and Human Rights Organisations
Ahmed C. Motala
Executive Director of the Human Rights Institute of South Africa

 

Judicial Nomination Procedures for the African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights
Chidi Anselm Odinkalu
Senior Legal Officer at the Open Society Initiative, Nigeria

 

Criminal Responsibility and Child Combatants before the Special Court for Sierra Leone
Mohamed Pfofana
Former intern from Harvard Law School Human Rights Program

 

State Reliance on Forced Confessions: UN Human Rights Committee Ruling against Sri Lanka
INTERIGHTS

 

Balancing National Security Concerns and Individual Rights in the Fight against Terrorism
Silvia Borelli
Research Fellow in Public International Law at the British Institute of International and Comparative Law

 

The Cyangugu Case: The Prosecutor v Ntagerura et al
Matthew S. Carlson
Associate Legal Officer at the UN ICTR

 

The Iraqi Special Tribunal
Alison Duxbury
Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Law, University of Melbourne

 

The Coalition for an African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights
Ibrahima Kane
Legal Officer for Africa at INTERIGHTS

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