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Human Rights Blog: Islam and the Death Penalty
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Centre for Human Rights - an interdisciplinary research group at BCU Law School. Extra Mile Award 2013. United Nations Human Rights. Friday, 19 June 2015. Islam and the Death Penalty. By Prof Jon Yorke, Professor of Human Rights[1]. In the name of Allah , the Entirely Merciful, the Especially Merciful. When discussing the death penalty with retentionist Islamic states it should be established to what extent the Shari'a. The human rights standards against the death penalty are well known,[2] and should be...
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Human Rights Blog: Human Rights Education
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Centre for Human Rights - an interdisciplinary research group at BCU Law School. Extra Mile Award 2013. United Nations Human Rights. Student Mock United Nations Security Council Session. Undergraduate and postgraduate law students have put their knowledge into practice during a mock United Nations Security Council debate, hosted by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Leyla Buran stated that this event helped for future employment as being part, "of a mock United Nations Session has shown me that I can a...
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Human Rights Blog: State Parliamentary Focus
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Centre for Human Rights - an interdisciplinary research group at BCU Law School. Extra Mile Award 2013. United Nations Human Rights. The Death Penalty in Georgia: Bill 96 and the Case of Warren Hill. Bill 96 comes at a time when the United States Supreme Court will consider (30 September, 2013), the case of Warren Hill. OCGA, s. 42-5-36(d), states,. 2013-CV-233771, p. 2-3 (emphasis added). Brief in Hill v. Humphrey. Which held that it is unconstitutional to execute an inmate who has mild mental retardati...
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Human Rights Blog: Inter-American Human Rights
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Centre for Human Rights - an interdisciplinary research group at BCU Law School. Extra Mile Award 2013. United Nations Human Rights. On 22 July 2013, the Office of the Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights condemned the murder of Alberto Lopez Bello, a journalist at El Imparcial. Violence, Threats and Hostilities Against the Members of the Media. Petition 11.739, Report No. 50/99, Mexico, Hector Felix Miranda, April 13, 1999 (Merits). Subsequent Imp...
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Human Rights Blog: United Nations Human Rights
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Centre for Human Rights - an interdisciplinary research group at BCU Law School. Extra Mile Award 2013. United Nations Human Rights. United Nations Human Rights. Call for New UN Strategies to Combat Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances. In the session the the UN Working Group reported on 17 enforced disappearances, but noted that there are over 400 existing cases from around the world. See, http:/ www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp? Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Islam and the Death Penalty. THE HIDDEN CRIME ...
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Human Rights Blog: State Judicial Focus
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Centre for Human Rights - an interdisciplinary research group at BCU Law School. Extra Mile Award 2013. United Nations Human Rights. SCOTUSblog and Following Cases in the United States Supreme Court. Academics, lawyers, and civil society experts comment on pending cases and causes making their way through the state and federal courts to the being granted “certiorari” by the court. For example, in the case of Association for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics, Inc. 2013, at www.scotusblog.com/? Briefs...
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Human Rights Blog: European Human Rights
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Centre for Human Rights - an interdisciplinary research group at BCU Law School. Extra Mile Award 2013. United Nations Human Rights. The Grand Chamber found the determining factor in that the applicants could have received a lower sentence had the 1976 Criminal Code been applied. Significantly, as the 2003 Code operated so as to disadvantage the applicants concerning a more stringent sentence, there had been a breach of Article 7. See, http:/ www.echr.coe.int/Pages/home.aspx? Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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Human Rights Blog: Exposing Injustice: the Meriam Ibrahim Case in Sudan
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Centre for Human Rights - an interdisciplinary research group at BCU Law School. Extra Mile Award 2013. United Nations Human Rights. Thursday, 12 March 2015. Exposing Injustice: the Meriam Ibrahim Case in Sudan. By Miss Nabila Okino and Miss Nushin Rahman, African Region Editors, BCU LLB Students (2013-2016). Nationally enacted legislation having effect only in respect of the Northern states of the Sudan shall have as its sources of legislation Islamic Sharia and the consensus of the people. Meriam Ibrah...
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Human Rights Blog: March 2015
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Centre for Human Rights - an interdisciplinary research group at BCU Law School. Extra Mile Award 2013. United Nations Human Rights. Thursday, 12 March 2015. Exposing Injustice: the Meriam Ibrahim Case in Sudan. By Miss Nabila Okino and Miss Nushin Rahman, African Region Editors, BCU LLB Students (2013-2016). Nationally enacted legislation having effect only in respect of the Northern states of the Sudan shall have as its sources of legislation Islamic Sharia and the consensus of the people. Meriam Ibrah...
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Human Rights Blog: African Human Rights
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Centre for Human Rights - an interdisciplinary research group at BCU Law School. Extra Mile Award 2013. United Nations Human Rights. In African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights v. the Republic of Kenya. The Ogiek Community claim to have been subject to repeated attempts of forced eviction, harassing and intimidation by government officials, and they also argue Kenyan property law does not recognise their claims to communal ownership of the forest. As such, their recourse to law is frustrated.
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