{"title":"Breaking the silence: challenging legal limits to pursue human rights violations","authors":"Lukas Hrabovsky","doi":"10.1504/IJHRCS.2021.10036311","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/IJHRCS.2021.10036311","url":null,"abstract":"Forced disappearance represents one of the most serious violations of human rights. In order to fight this humiliating practice, international community adopted the Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Forced Disappearance. Nowadays, Spain is being confronted with its bloody past under Franco's era. His fascist dictatorship is marked with grave violations of human rights. When turning to democracy, Spain opted for forgetting past wrongs. This consensus between former foes was embodied in the so-called Pact of Forgetting. Today, it serves as an argument for domestic courts for denying justice to the victims of Franco's regime calling for justice. Yet, the victims have been desperately calling for justice at Spanish courts and European Court of Human Rights. The Spanish courts, however, found themselves 'between the mill wheels'. They have to balance between the will of Spaniards embodied in the Pact of Forgetting, and the International Human Rights Framework.","PeriodicalId":40799,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Human Rights and Constitutional Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47201511","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The process of reform of the Spanish Constitution and parliamentary minorities","authors":"Paloma Requejo Rodriguez","doi":"10.1504/ijhrcs.2021.10036299","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/ijhrcs.2021.10036299","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40799,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Human Rights and Constitutional Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66901511","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Status of human rights in contemporary India: a study of trends in incidents of violation, judicial developments and institutions (20142019)","authors":"A. Jha","doi":"10.1504/IJHRCS.2021.10037948","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/IJHRCS.2021.10037948","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40799,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Human Rights and Constitutional Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66902128","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Culture and women's rights: assessment of the practice of widow inheritance and succession from relativist and universalist views","authors":"Kelemework Birukie Zewdie","doi":"10.1504/IJHRCS.2021.10037951","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/IJHRCS.2021.10037951","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40799,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Human Rights and Constitutional Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66902391","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A human right to music - an ethical justification","authors":"P. G. Kirchschlaeger","doi":"10.1504/ijhrcs.2021.10040107","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/ijhrcs.2021.10040107","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40799,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Human Rights and Constitutional Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66903622","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The (extra) constitutionality of election postponement in Ethiopia amidst COVID-19 pandemic","authors":"Marew Abebe Salemot","doi":"10.1504/ijhrcs.2021.10041826","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/ijhrcs.2021.10041826","url":null,"abstract":"Election postponement in Ethiopia, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, has raised critical constitutional questions that have never been really thought before in the country's constitutional law jurisprudence. This is because the state of emergency measure in Ethiopia, to contain the spread of COVID-19, was in conflict with constitutional deadlines for elections. The constitutional lacuna is complicated by the absence of explicit constitutional provisions that indisputably govern election postponement. Finally, the House of Federation (HoF), Upper House of Ethiopia which is empowered to interpret the Constitution, postponed the planned election indefinitely under the aegis of constitutional interpretation. The decision undoubtedly contradicts the Ethiopian Constitution since the HoF provided superficial analysis and fallacious reasoning and failed to meaningfully grapple with the serious constitutional issues.","PeriodicalId":40799,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Human Rights and Constitutional Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66904039","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Forced marriage in the USA: international law and the US policy","authors":"Nitu Kumari","doi":"10.1504/ijhrcs.2021.10042004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/ijhrcs.2021.10042004","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40799,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Human Rights and Constitutional Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66904371","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Procedures for the review of constitutionality of constitutional amendments in the Spanish legal system","authors":"María Del Camino Vidal Fueyo","doi":"10.1504/IJHRCS.2021.10036305","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/IJHRCS.2021.10036305","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40799,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Human Rights and Constitutional Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66902357","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Freedom of artistic expression in the ambit of Article 19, with special reference to communal disharmony","authors":"Letishiya Chaturvedi, Poorna Dixit","doi":"10.1504/ijhrcs.2021.10039863","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/ijhrcs.2021.10039863","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40799,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Human Rights and Constitutional Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66903587","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mishandling the issue of gender dysphoria in India - an analysis of the transgender persons (Protection of Rights) Act, 2019","authors":"Vinayak Jhamb, Manini Syali","doi":"10.1504/ijhrcs.2021.10040579","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/ijhrcs.2021.10040579","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40799,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Human Rights and Constitutional Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66903721","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}