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Taking Human Dignity More Humanely
2016
The chapter argues that Kantian autonomy has sometimes been misunderstood, as if Kant would have viewed any choice as lawful, whatever its content might be. It should be noted that Kant followed earlier thinkers who had already found human rights (or natural rights) in the ‘dignity of human nature’. Thus Kant was not the first thinker to connect human rights with dignity, and the latter with human nature. The link between human rights, human nature and the expression ‘dignity’ appeared in the eighteenth century, but earlier than Kant.
The principle of non-refoulement vs national security in the post 9/11 era
2022
The terrorist attack on September 11, 2001, had largely raised the problem of terrorism in international society. Governments launched campaigns against terrorism, one of them being the War on Terror, which as a result, raised controversial issues. One of the challenges is the fundamental human rights protection, namely the protection granted under the principle of non-refoulement. In the post-9/11 era, states started to be more concerned about their national security, and thus of individuals who enter their territories or already reside there. The main research question of this thesis is to analyze the impact of 9/11 on striking balance between the principle of non-refoulement and national…
Notes on privacy from the jurisprudence of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights
2013
En el presente artículo los profesores Zelada y Bertoni realizan un minucioso e interesante estudio del artículo 11 de la Convención Americana sobre Derechos Humanos a través de la jurisprudencia de la Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos. In this paper, professors Zelada and Bertoni perform a thorough and interesting study of Paper 11 of the American Convention on Human Rights analyzing the jurisprudence of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights.
Democrazia deliberativa e Convenzione europea dei diritti umani
2010
Deliberative democracy and the European Convention on Human Rights Theories of deliberative democracy have rapidly become very popular amongst political scientists. The central argument of these theories is that democratic legitimacy of lawmaking does not lie (or does not only lie) in the elected character of Parliaments but in public delib- eration processes. Decisions have to be justified by reasons and reasons have to be publicly debated. Legitimacy also depends on the opportunity for citizens to participate effectively in public debates. In this paper I argue that the European Court of Human Rights can be a key player in promoting a democracy based on public deliberation and that in the…
The Ambivalently Good Human Rights
2016
Resisting Immigration Detention
2016
The aim of this article is to provide a normative analysis of the ways in which immigrants resist immigration detention. After having outlined (in Section 2) some general features that make immigration detention a rather abnormal condition for human beings to be kept in, I distinguish three main forms of resistance to it: institutionalized, non-institutionalized, and anti-institutional. I first spell out, in Section 3, some individual characteristics of these forms of resistance. Then (in Sections 4 and 5), using Italy as my test case, I suggest, for each of these forms, an interpretation of their normative meaning (that is, their meaning according to both the relevant legal rules and their…
The Contribution of the Inter-American Human Rights Bodies to Evolving International Law on Indigenous Rights over Lands and Natural Resources
2010
AbstractBecause of the special relationship with land that characterises indigenous groups, rights over land and natural resources are at the heart of indigenous claims under international law. The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and the Inter-American Court have developed a copious jurisprudence on the subject matter and contributed to the establishment of certain minimum indigenous peoples' land rights under customary international law. This article analyses the Inter-American judicial discourse on land issues in the light of the current status of relevant international law and reflects upon the potential contribution of the former to the further development of the latter. It fo…
The Understanding of Human Rights and Rule of Law from the Perspective of Kohlberg’s Theory
2015
Human rights, democracy and the rule of law are considered to be the foundations of the normative order of modern societies (Habermas, 1996). Even though the universal validity of human rights is often criticized, they represent an ethical minimum consensus of the global society as conventions on human rights have been ratified by more than 150 states.
Derecho natural y derechos humanos: síntesis práctica y complementariedad teórica
1998
En este artículo se argumentan los siguientes puntos: 1. El lenguaje de los derechos humanos surge en Occidente en sintonía con la subjetivización de la idea de derecho iniciada a finales de la Edad Media. En ello se advierte sin dificultad la diferencia existente entre las modernas declaraciones de derechos humanos, y la doctrina clásica del derecho natural, que era una doctrina eminentemente práctica, integrada en la virtud de la justicia 2. Una fundamentación consistente de los derechos humanos en la idea de dignidad debe remitir necesariamente bien a un plano trascendental bien a un plano ontológico. Por su parte, el esclarecimiento de la idea de dignidad permite profundizar en la natur…