Current issues on Human Rights

he 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of HumanRights was a good reason to reflect. Nowadays, there is certainambiguity as to whether human rights are a moral, political orlegal concept. What are the specific consequences of enforcing rightsin these particular classifications. United Nations bodies defend theuniversality, indivisibility and interdependence of human rights, butthere is no unanimous agreement with these characteristics.On 23-24 May 2019, a human rights symposium, entitled Currentissues on human rights, was held at Carlos III University, GetafeCampus. 30 scholars with diverse backgrounds and areas of expertisecame from 13 countries, spread across 4 continents. This book includessome of the interventions in that human rights symposium, whichwas organised by the Research Committee 26 on human rights of theInternational Political Science Association -IPSA-, the Department ofInternational and Ecclesiastical Law and Philosophy of Law and thehuman rights Institute Bartolomé de las Casas of Carlos III Universityof Madrid.

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CURRENT ISSUES ON HUMAN RIGHTS

SCIENTIFIC ASPECTS OF THE UDHR AS A CULTURAL MILESTONE

HUMAN RIGHTS IN HISTORY: CIVIC RIGHTS AND THE RIGHTS OF MAN, THE PREDECESSORS OF HUMAN RIGHTS

CONSTITUTIONAL IMPUNITY: HOW U.S. COURTS ARE BREAKING THE PROMISE OF UNIVERSAL HUMAN RIGHTS, A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS

RESEARCH, EDUCATION AND PROMOTION OF HUMAN RIGHTS UNIVERSALITY: RESPONSIBILITY OF ACADEMICIANS

TRUSTWORTHY ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND HUMAN RIGHTS

THE RIGHT TO FREEDOM OF OPINION AND EXPRESSION IN THE UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS A CONTEMPORARY PERSPECTIVE

HOW CAN THE INTERNET CHANGE HUMAN RIGHTS ON ONLINE HATE SPEECH REGULATIONS?

GLORIFICATION OF TERRORIST ACTS AND PROTECTION OF FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION IN SPAIN: LAST DEVELOPMENTS

SOCIAL RIGHTS IN EUROPE AND FREE PLATFORM WORK

THE EFFECTIVENESS OF BUDGET PUBLIC HEARINGS IN THE DEFINITION OF PRIORITIES IN PUBLIC POLICIES FOR THE CONCRETIZATION OF SOCIAL RIGHTS

DO THE SAME-SEX COUPLES HAVE THE RIGHT TO MARRY UNDER THE RULES OF THE UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS AND THE CONSTITUTION OF REPUBLIC OF POLAND FROM 1997?

HUMAN RIGHTS BEHIND BARS. PAYING A DEBT THAT KEEPS ON GROWING .

THE INEFFECTIVENESS OF THE CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT NUMBER 81/2014 AND THE DECONSTRUCTION OF THE FOUNDATIONS OF CONTEMPORARY SLAVERY LABOR IN BRAZIL

LIMITATION OF POLITICAL RIGHTS. THE CASE OF THE FIRST DEMOCRATIC ELECTION IN PORTUGAL (1975)

NATIONALISM, PLURALISM AND MINORITIES IN SPAIN: THE CASE OF CATALONIA

HUMAN RIGHTS, SELF-DETERMINATION OF PEOPLES AND SECESSION

CATALONIA: IS THE HOLDING OF A REFERENDUM TO DECIDE ON THE SECESSION OF A TERRITORY IN ACCORDANCE WITH INTERNATIONAL LAW?. THE EFFECTS OF THE RECOGNITION OF STATES219

ETHNICAL IDENTITY AND RECOGNITION BETWEEN COLONIAL AND POST-COLONIAL RIGHTS .

THE (POSSIBLE) ROLE OF OMBUDS IN IMPLEMENTATION OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS 2030: CASE OF RUSSIA IN THE BIOPOLITICAL FIELD OF GENDER EQUITY .

CLIMATE CHANGE AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT: FACING PRESENT CHALLENGES AND WORKING TOWARDS GOALS AND THE FUTUR

UNACCOMPANIED MIGRANT MINORS: VULNERABLE AND VOICELESS

THE (UN)PROTECTION OF INTERNALLY DISPLACED PERSONS UNDER THE GLOBAL COMPACT ON REFUGEES

THE GLOBAL COMPACT FOR MIGRATION AGREEMENT AND THE PRINCIPLE OF UNIVERSALITY OF HUMAN RIGHTS: THE GENDER PERSPECTIVE .

THE SECURITIZATION OF MIGRATION IN UNITED STATES. HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS OF IRREGULAR IMMIGRANTS

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