• The attacks "amount to violations of international humanitarian and human rights law, " they said.

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  • The Countryside Alliance, a lobbying group, is preparing to challenge the ban under human rights law.

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  • Those responsible for serious violations of international humanitarian law and serious violations and abuses of human rights law must be held accountable.

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  • Universality is the beating heart of the body of international human rights law as it has developed over the past six decades.

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  • Respect for human rights and for fundamental freedoms without distinction of any kind is a fundamental rule of international human rights law.

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  • The High Court ruled the policy was "incompatible" with human rights law.

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  • The President of the Philippines Benigno Aquino has signed a new human rights law on the abduction of individuals by state officials.

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  • They are a clear violation of international human rights law and Sudan's own international commitments, notably the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.

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  • His position was fiercely criticised by Professor Conor Gearty of the London School of Economics, one of Britain's leading experts on human rights law.

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  • South Korea currently has a broad human rights law that ostensibly protects gays and lesbians, but it has no mechanism to punish those who discriminate.

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  • Earlier in the year hunt supporters failed to get the lower courts to rule that the legislation breached human rights law, trading and employment regulations.

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  • International human rights law also prohibits specific violations, and governments have a responsibility to take action to stop violence against women regardless of who is perpetrating that violence.

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  • The Conservatives pointed out that the part of her bill which allowed legal aid to be sought by domestic abuse victims without means testing could contravene human rights law.

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  • Justice Secretary Chris Grayling has said he is "absolutely certain" the Conservatives will go into the next election with a "plan" that could involve a change in human rights law.

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  • It has even been discouraged from capturing pirates, because they might demand asylum in Britain, a request with which the UK might have to comply under international human rights law.

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  • Her Highness Sheikha Moza introduced the new publication, which examines the intersection between international human rights law, humanitarian and criminal law with respect to violations of the right to education.

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  • He specialized in international law and human rights law.

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  • So human rights law must clean up the mess.

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  • Alan Miller, professor of human-rights law at Strathclyde University, says that any body with public functions local councils, quangos like employment-law tribunals, and even privatised utilities will come under the scope of the human-rights law.

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  • One interesting straw in the wind is the new legal opinion that the provision that publishers who don't join a self-regulation system could face tougher damages in the courts, if they're sued for libel, may break human rights law.

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  • That verdict could impact on thousands of indigenous communities in Ecuador and beyond who want their governments to adhere to international human rights law that requires them to consult with indigenous peoples before giving developments on their land the go-ahead.

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  • The commission argued that viewing sectarianism as "Protestant-Catholic religious prejudice, political factionalism, or even 'tribalism' " placed it outside the context of well-established international human rights law, specifically the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, which came into force back in 1969.

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  • U.S. Army Lieutenant General Francis Wiercinski drew on his own experiences to make a powerful case to senior officials from the Burmese Defense Ministry that national security is helped rather than hindered by transparency and independent monitoring, and by compliance with international humanitarian law and human rights law.

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  • The petitioners-consisting of 10 industry groups and 2 individuals-had argued that the pilot program exceeded the TLC's authority and that it violated several provisions of the New York City Charter and New York City Administrative Code, City rulemaking procedures, the City Human Rights Law, and State and City environmental statutes.

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  • "Furthermore, Congress should immediately hold public hearings with independent experts to examine the administration's legal reasoning and ensure that the administration is following the 'rule book' for the use of lethal force that already exists: international human rights law and, in the very narrow circumstances to which it applies, international humanitarian law, " the group said.

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  • Lord Pannick argued that there was no danger of a successful challenge under human rights law, because the European Court of Human Rights precedent was firmly against the idea that people had a human right to a particular kind of religious marriage - so if a marriage was refused for religious reasons, the courts would uphold that decision.

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  • The rarely-used 1988 war crimes and human rights abuses law is known as a "universal jurisdiction" offence.

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  • To make that admittedly difficult case, the best place to start is to see how human-rights law works in practice.

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  • Nevertheless, this survey will argue that human-rights law, for all its failures, has marked a genuine turning point in world affairs.

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  • Along the way he has tested some would say stretched international human-rights law.

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