This section contains selected national cases that concern human rights protection from the Constitutional Court of South Africa, the Supreme Court of India and the Supreme Court of the United States.
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- Human Rights Concepts, Ideas and Fora
- Part I: The Concept of Human Rights
- Human Rights Fora
- Substantive Human Rights
- The Right to Due Process
- The Right to Freedom of Expression and Religion
- The Right to Intergrity
- The Right to Liberty
- The Right to Privacy and Family Life
- The Right to Property
- The Rights Related to Labour
- The Right to an Adequate Standard of Living
- The Right to Health
- The Right to Education and Culture
- The Right to Participate in Society
- The Right to Equality and Non-discrimination
- The Human Rights Protection of Vulnerable Groups
- Human Rights in Relation to Other Topics
- Human Rights Actors
- Human Rights Instruments
- Complaints Procedures of the International Human Rights Supervisory Bodies
- Comparative Analysis of Selected Case-Law ACHPR, IACHR, ECHR HRC
- The Right to Life
- The Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination
- The Right to Equal Protection and The Prohibition of Discrimination
- Concept and Importance of the Principle of Non-Discrimination
- Direct and Indirect Discrimination
- Prohibited Grounds of Discrimination
- The Principle of Non-Discrimination as a Vehicle for the Protection of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
- Concluding Remarks
- The Right to Freedom from Torture, or Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment
- What is torture and ill-treatment?
- Mental distress as torture or ill-treatment
- The Death Row Phenomenon
- Extradition, Expulsion, Deportation and Refoulement
- Duty to Investigate Allegations of Torture and Ill-Treatment
- Conditions of Detention
- The Prohibition of Torture and Ill-Treatment and the Right to an Effective Remedy
- Concluding Remarks
- The Right to Health
- The Right to Respect for Private and Family Life
- The Right to Property
- What is the right to property?
- Major Requirements: Lawfulness and Proportionality
- Interference Leading to Limitation in the Enjoyment of Property
- Interference leading to deprivation or affecting enjoyment
- Various aspects related to the interpretation of property rights
- Imputation/Jurisdiction
- Ratione Temporis
- Absence of Protection Under the United Nations System
- Concluding Remarks
- The Right to Freedom of Opinion and Expression
- The Rights to Due Process
- Efficiency of justice: providing final judgements within a reasonable time
- What is Due Process?
- What is the right to a fair trial?
- An Independent, Impartial and Competent Tribunal
- Respect for the Rights of the Parties to a Trial, Notably in Defence
- What is the right to an effective remedy?
- The Right to Access to Court
- Concluding Remarks
- Human Rights Cases
- General Comments, Special Issue Papers and UN Fact Sheets
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