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Towards Human Rights Compliance in Australian Prisons
Imprisoned people have always been vulnerable and in need of human rights protections. The slow but steady growth in the protection of imprisoned people’s rights over recent decades in Australia has mostly come from incremental change to prison legislation and common law principles. A radical influence is about to disrupt this slow change. Australian prisons and other closed environments will soon be subject to international inspections by the United Nations Subcommittee on the Prevention of Torture (SPT). This is because the Australian Government ratified the Optional Protocol to the Convention Against Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (OPCAT) in Decemb...
Water Law and Cooperation in the Euphrates-Tigris Region
Water Law and Cooperation in the Euphrates-Tigris Region: A Comparative and Interdisciplinary Approach builds on the increased attention for international water governance questions in the UN International Year of Water Cooperation (2013) to evaluate various management issues related to the Euphrates and Tigris rivers, with particular attention to the legal governing framework. Alongside contributions by legal scholars from the respective riparian countries on the national water law, the book offers a unique interdisciplinary perspective on political, hydrological and environmental aspects of water management in the region. Additionally, the overall legal implications of water sharing and wa...
Yearbook of the European Convention on Human Rights/Annuaire de la convention européenne des droits de l'homme, Volume 55 (2012)
The Yearbook of the European Convention on Human Rights, edited by the Directorate General of Human Rights and Legal Affairs, is an indispensable record of the development and impact of the world’s oldest binding international human rights treaty. It reviews the implementation of the Convention both by the European Court of Human Rights and by the Council of Europe’s Committee of Ministers, responsible for supervising the application of the Court’s judgments in the member states. The Yearbook includes: Full text of any new protocols to the Convention as they are opened for signature, together with the state of signatures and ratifications. Full listing of Court judgments; judgments bro...
Klimawandel und Sicherheit
In jungster Zeit wurde der Klimawandel immer wieder mit fragiler Staatlichkeit, einem Kampf um Ressourcen oder Fluchtlingsstromen in Verbindung gebracht. In diesem Buch untersuchen Experten die Zusammenhange und fragen, ob der Klimawandel groaere sicherheitspolitische Aufmerksamkeit finden sollte. Dazu nehmen die Autoren die in der Debatte verwendeten Begriffe in den Blick und analysieren mogliche Risiken anhand von konkreten Folgen und regionalen Beispielen. Zwar konnen Wasserknappheit, Nahrungsmittelengpasse, schmelzendes Eis oder wetterbedingte Naturkatastrophen die Handlungsfahigkeit schwacher Regime uberlasten, Wanderungen auslosen oder die wirtschaftlichen Grundlagen einzelner Lander beeintrachtigen. Die Reaktionen auf diese Herausforderungen sind jedoch sehr unterschiedlich und nicht zwingend mit Gewalt verbunden. So birgt der Klimawandel Gefahren, kann aber auch Handlungsspielraume eroffnen. Die Suche nach adaquaten Politikansatzen hat gerade erst begonnen. Die Autoren pladieren fur eine kooperative, problemorientierte und nachhaltige Antwort, um den Bedarf an sicherheitspolitischen Eingriffen gering zu halten.
Arctic Science, International Law and Climate Change
Developments in the Arctic region are increasingly part of international discussion. The book contains a comprehensive and interdisciplinary analysis of the current problems around marine scientific research in the Arctic region. It combines scientific, legal and policy aspects. The main questions addressed are: ongoing and future Arctic marine research, marine research in the Arctic Ocean in practice, the legal framework, enlarged continental shelves and the freedom of marine science and particularities and challenges of the Arctic region. The contributors are leading experts in the field of politics, law and science.
