Human Rights Law Review Volume 19 Issue 4

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The Construction of Gender and Sexuality in the Approach of Key International Law Actors to the Circumcision of Children

Sandland,, Ralph

2019 Human Rights Law Review

doi:10.1093/hrlr/ngz030

Abstract This article analyses the approach of key international actors to the circumcision of children, seeking, first, to understand why the policy towards the circumcision or genital cutting of girls is so different from that towards boys. As part of this project, the article considers the...

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Accessibility and Foreseeability in the Application of the Principle of Legality under General International Law: A Time for Revision?

, de Souza Dias, Talita

2019 Human Rights Law Review

doi:10.1093/hrlr/ngz029

ABSTRACT The principle of legality is one of the most fundamental principles of domestic and international criminal law. It features in some of the most prominent human rights instruments, and its application has been scrutinised by various human rights courts and international criminal...

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The European Court of Human Rights, Transitional Justice and Historical Abuse in Consolidated Democracies

Gallen,, James

2019 Human Rights Law Review

doi:10.1093/hrlr/ngz032

Abstract In recent years, both transitional justice and the role of the European Court of Human Rights in dealing with historical abuses have evolved. Transitional justice has begun to address widespread or systemic human rights abuses outside of the contexts of armed conflict and authoritarian...

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Redress for Involuntarily Sterilised Trans People in Sweden against Evolving Human Rights Standards: A Critical Appraisal

Alaattinoğlu,, Daniela; Rubio-Marín,, Ruth

2019 Human Rights Law Review

doi:10.1093/hrlr/ngz026

Abstract Involuntary sterilisation is a long-standing practice that has targeted vulnerable and marginalised groups in different historical and geographical contexts. These include transgender and transsexual people who have often had to undergo sterilisation as a requirement for legal gender...

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A Dignified Death for All: How a Relational Conceptualisation of Dignity Strengthens the Case for Legalising Assisted Dying in England and Wales

Reichstein,, Angelika

2019 Human Rights Law Review

doi:10.1093/hrlr/ngz033

Abstract Criminalising assisted dying is irreconcilable with human dignity and condemns a small number of individuals to significant suffering. Human rights law requires the protection of privacy, but States are given some flexibility in terms of balancing the right to respect for private life...

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A Hostile Environment for Children? The Rights and Best Interests of the Refugee Child in the United Kingdom’s Asylum Law

Brittle,, Ruth

2019 Human Rights Law Review

doi:10.1093/hrlr/ngz028

Abstract Children experiencing persecution, torture, ill-treatment, exploitation and violence are compelled to flee across international borders to seek protection in another state. When a child seeks international protection, the framework of rights under the Convention on the Rights of the...

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The Right to Conscientious Objection to Military Service: Recent Jurisprudence of the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention

Toomey,, Leigh

2019 Human Rights Law Review

doi:10.1093/hrlr/ngz031

conscientious objection to military service, arbitrary detention, freedom of thought, conscience and religion, Article 18 International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, Republic of Korea 1. INTRODUCTION The criminalisation of...

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Book Review

Heri, Corina

2019 Human Rights Law Review

doi:10.1093/hrlr/ngz025

Most scholars of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR or the Convention) are by now familiar with the concept of ‘European consensus’, a comparative method of interpretation developed by the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR or ‘the Court’) that has been attracting growing scholarly...

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Books Received

2019 Human Rights Law Review

doi:10.1093/hrlr/ngz027

A. S. Barros, Governance as Responsibility: Member States as Human Rights Protectors in International Financial Institutions (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2019, 263 pp). S. Carrera, J. Santos Vara and T. Strik (eds), Constitutionalising the External Dimensions of EU Migration Policies...

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