{"title":"Atrocity crimes and international law: responsibility to protect, intercession, and non-forceful responses <b>Atrocity crimes and international law: responsibility to protect, intercession, and non-forceful responses</b> , by Stacey Henderson, Routledge, 2023, 182 pp, £120.00 (Hardback), ISBN: 1-003-22089-4","authors":"Nils Alexander Alwon","doi":"10.1080/18918131.2023.2278679","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/18918131.2023.2278679","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42311,"journal":{"name":"Nordic Journal of Human Rights","volume":"120 19","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135137571","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":"Philosophical Foundations of International Law: Legally-Protected Interests <b>Philosophical Foundations of International Law: Legally-Protected Interests</b> by Morten Bergsmo, Emiliano J. Buis and SONG Tianying (eds) Torkel Opshal2022, 402 pp, $ 14,16 (hardback) and ebook free, ISBN-10 8283481215","authors":"Marina Aksenova","doi":"10.1080/18918131.2023.2272335","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/18918131.2023.2272335","url":null,"abstract":"Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes1 See, for instance, chapter 7 dedicated to the exploration of communitarianism in the Western and African philosophical traditions. Kafayat Motilewa Quadri, Vahyala Kwaga and Tosin Osasona, ´Forging a Modern African Perspective on ‘Unity’ as a Collective Legal Interest in International Criminal Law´ pp. 264 et sq.2 Rod Rastan argues in chapter 9 that countless international instruments reveal humanity´s struggle with multiple conflicting identities. The idea of ´unity´ cannot be superimposed on these patterns. Rather, Radstan, invites enhanced self-perception to question the structures that have been normalized. See Rod Rastan, ´Unity and Disunity in International Criminal Justice´, p. 361.3 For instance, Morten Bergsmo, Emiliano J. Buis and SONG Tianying argue in chapter 1 that forward-looking international law should encourage deliberative participation in law-making of various populous non-Western states. The invitation is to go beyond labelling states and towards inclusion. See Morten Bergsmo, Emiliano J. Buis and SONG Tianying, ´Protected Interests in International Criminal Law´, p. 3.4 For instance, David Baragwanath argues ´[r]econciliation in the context of criminal law concerns principle and practicality in restoring human relations following discord¨. See chapter 5 ‘Reconciliation’ as a Philosophical Foundational Concept in International Criminal Law´ p. 158.5 Pierre Bourdieu, ´The Force of Law: Toward a Sociology of the Juridical Field´ (1987).38 Hastings L.J. 8146 Randall Collins, Interaction Ritual Chains (Princeton University Press, 2005).7 Morten Bergsmo, Emiliano J. Buis and SONG Tianying, ´Protected Interests in International Criminal Law´, p. 32.8 Eg. Kavitha Chinnaiyan, Glorious Alchemy: Living the Lalitā Sahasranāma (New Sarum Press, 2020).9 See chapter 8 by Surabhi Sharma, ´Humanity and Unity: Indian Thought and Legal Interests Protected by International Criminal Law´, p. 286 et sq.10 For more on the general topic of phenomenology see Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Phenomenology of Perception (Routledge, 2005; original work first published 1945).11 See Rod Radstan´s chapter 9 for more on questioning established interpretative frameworks normalized through discourse, p. 361.12 Marina Aksenova, ´Global Citizenship and the Right of Access to Justice: Adapting T.H. Marshall’s Ideas to the Interconnected World´(2023) Humanit.Vol 14(2).","PeriodicalId":42311,"journal":{"name":"Nordic Journal of Human Rights","volume":"44 183","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135540148","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":"Exclusionary Inclusion? Peace Agreements and Provisions on Child Protection","authors":"Sean Molloy","doi":"10.1080/18918131.2023.2268997","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/18918131.2023.2268997","url":null,"abstract":"Peace agreements often serve as roadmaps for peacebuilding and the reconstruction of the post-conflict state. They do this by, among other things, delineating issues to be addressed as part of the transition from conflict to peace, reforms to be enacted, and the groups that are to benefit from them. It follows that what and who is included in a peace agreement matters. Often overlooked in the scholarship, however, are the potential implications—positive and negative—of the language adopted in peace agreements. With attention to language, this article examines how peace agreements address a particular but salient issue: child protection. It first provides an overview of existing provisions on the subject before contemplating the disempowering potential of the terminology used. The article demonstrates the need for more clarity in how commitments are constructed in peace agreements.","PeriodicalId":42311,"journal":{"name":"Nordic Journal of Human Rights","volume":"56 6","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135370962","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":"Deportation Limbo. State violence and contestations in the Nordics","authors":"Christine M. Jacobsen","doi":"10.1080/18918131.2023.2280332","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/18918131.2023.2280332","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42311,"journal":{"name":"Nordic Journal of Human Rights","volume":"212 1","pages":"497 - 499"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139324193","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 Conflict in Syria and the Failure of International Law to Protect People Globally: Mass Atrocities, Enforced Disappearances and Arbitrary Detentions <b>The Conflict in Syria and the Failure of International Law to Protect People Globally: Mass Atrocities, Enforced Disappearances and Arbitrary Detentions</b> , by Jeremy Julian Sarkin, Routledge, 2022, 306 pp, £35.09 (paperback), ISBN 9781032056647","authors":"Juan-Pablo Perez-Leon-Acevedo","doi":"10.1080/18918131.2023.2251820","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/18918131.2023.2251820","url":null,"abstract":"Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes1 E.g., Bertrand Ramcharan, The Protection Role and Jurisprudence of the United Nations Human Rights Council, Brill, 2022; Barbora Holá et al., (eds.), The Oxford Handbook on Atrocity Crimes, Oxford University Press, 2022.2 E.g., Yasmine Nahlawi, The Responsibility to Protect in Libya and Syria: Mass Atrocities, Human Protection, and International Law, Routledge, 2019; Pinar Gözen Ercan (ed.), The Responsibility to Protect Twenty Years On: Rhetoric and Implementation, Palgrave MacMillan, 2022.3 E.g., Daniel Silander and Don Wallace (eds.), International Organizations and the Implementation of the Responsibility to Protect the Humanitarian Crisis in Syria, Routledge, 2015; Michael Scharf et al.,, The Syrian Conflict’s Impact on International Law, Routledge, 2020; Alex Bellamy, Syria Betrayed: Atrocities, War, and the Failure of International Diplomacy, Columbia University Press, 2022.","PeriodicalId":42311,"journal":{"name":"Nordic Journal of Human Rights","volume":"122 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135895258","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":"Mobilizing the Rights of Migrant Workers: Swedish Trade Unions’ Engagement with Law and the Courts","authors":"Isabel Schoultz, Heraclitos Muhire","doi":"10.1080/18918131.2023.2250678","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/18918131.2023.2250678","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTMigrant workers, both regular and irregular, are at particular risk of having their rights violated. At the same time, there has been an absence of support for exploited immigrant workers from Swedish authorities and civil society. Lately, a number of trade unions and semi-union organisations in Sweden have developed methods to mobilize the rights of migrant workers experiencing exploitation on the Swedish labour market. This article investigates strategies utilized by trade unions to mobilize migrant workers’ rights by engaging with the law and the courts. It draws on qualitative interviews with trade union representatives and court judgements from the Labour Court and other civil courts. We identify legal practices that range from immediate legal assistance and everyday negotiations with employers to litigation in court. We show how the practical, aspirational, and creative engagement of a small group of trade union representatives with the law and courts has generated a new form for mobilizing the rights of migrant workers in the Swedish context. This form of legal mobilization is both instrumental and political, driven by the rhetoric of class struggle and a belief in the rights of migrant workers.KEY WORDS: migrant workerslabour exploitationtrade unionslegal mobilization Notes1 SVT ’Statsministerns städerska utvisad – arbetsgivaren utreds fortfarande’ https://www.svt.se/nyheter/inrikes/stadsministerns-staderska-utvisad-arbetsgivaren-utreds-fortfarande, accessed 25 May 20222 The criminal investigation into human exploitation was closed, which allowed for her expulsion.3 Mål A 17/22; Arbetaren ’ 100 000 kronor till statsministerns städare’ https://www.arbetaren.se/2022/03/15/100-000-kronor-till-statsministerns-stadare/, accessed 25 May 20224 Hannah Lewis and others, 'Hyper-precarious lives: Migrants, work and forced labour in the Global North' (2014) 39 Progress in Human Geography 5805 See Michael McCann and George Lovell, Union by Law (University of Chicago Press 2020); Paula Mulinari and Anders Neergaard, 'Trade unions negotiating the Swedish model: racial capitalism, whiteness and the invisibility of race' (2023) 64 Race & Class 486 Amanda Latimer ‘Super-Exploitation, the Race to the Bottom, and the Missing International’ In: Ness, I., Cope, Z. (eds) The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Imperialism and Anti-Imperialism, (2021) Palgrave Macmillan, Cham.7 See Janina Puder ‘Cheap Labour, (Un)Organised Workers. The Oppressive Exploitation of Labour Migrants in the Malaysian Palm Oil Industry’ (2022) In: Global Agricultural Workers from the 17th to the 21st Century. Series: Studies in Global Social History, Volume: 50. Publisher: Brill. Harsha Walia ‘Transient Servitude: Migrant Labour in Canada and the Apartheid of Citizenship’ (2010) 52 Race and Class 71.8 Anders Neergaard, '”Det fackliga löftet” : solidaritet, fackföreningsrörelse och arbetskraftsinvandring' in Petra Herzfeld Olsson Catharina Calleman (ed), Arbetskraft från hela världen : H","PeriodicalId":42311,"journal":{"name":"Nordic Journal of Human Rights","volume":"187 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136313961","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":"Nordic Criminal Justice in a Global Context: Practices and Promotion of Exceptionalism","authors":"Kristiina Koivukari","doi":"10.1080/18918131.2023.2252685","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/18918131.2023.2252685","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42311,"journal":{"name":"Nordic Journal of Human Rights","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135827331","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":"Samuel Moyn and Marcel Gauchet on the Relationship Between Human Rights, Neoliberalism, and Inequality","authors":"Tomas Wedin","doi":"10.1080/18918131.2023.2250676","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/18918131.2023.2250676","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42311,"journal":{"name":"Nordic Journal of Human Rights","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136071437","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":"Collective Legal Mobilisation: Exploring Class Actions in Sweden and Canada","authors":"Michael Molavi","doi":"10.1080/18918131.2023.2229697","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/18918131.2023.2229697","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42311,"journal":{"name":"Nordic Journal of Human Rights","volume":"4 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85450988","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":"Obligation to Provide Sexuality Education: Reviewing Women’s Right to Sexual and Reproductive Health under UN Human Rights Treaties","authors":"Hannah Ji-Jia Liu","doi":"10.1080/18918131.2023.2225971","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/18918131.2023.2225971","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42311,"journal":{"name":"Nordic Journal of Human Rights","volume":"57 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-07-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81562284","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}