Read Books Online and Download eBooks, EPub, PDF, Mobi, Kindle, Text Full Free.
Counter Terrorism Policy And Human Rights Eleventh Report
Download Counter Terrorism Policy And Human Rights Eleventh Report full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online Counter Terrorism Policy And Human Rights Eleventh Report ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!
Author :Great Britain. Parliament. Joint Committee on Human Rights Publisher :The Stationery Office ISBN 13 :9780104013038 Total Pages :60 pages Book Rating :4.0/5 (13 download)
Book Synopsis Counter-terrorism Policy and Human Rights (eleventh Report) by : Great Britain. Parliament. Joint Committee on Human Rights
Download or read book Counter-terrorism Policy and Human Rights (eleventh Report) written by Great Britain. Parliament. Joint Committee on Human Rights and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2008 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The main purpose of this Report is to comment on the adequacy of the additional safeguards which the Government has indicated it intends to bring forward to meet the human rights concerns about its proposal to extend the maximum period of pre-charge detention to 42 days. The report explains the Committee's conclusion that the additional safeguards are inadequate to protect individuals against the risk of arbitrary detention. The Committee recommends that the Government provide Parliament with the evidence on which it relies when it says that the threat from terrorism is growing. It also calls for information about the use made of the extended power to detain without charge for up to 28 days since it was last renewed in July 2007. No amount of additional parliamentary or judicial safeguards can render the proposal for a reserve power of 42 days' pre-charge detention compatible with the right of a terrorism suspect to be informed "promptly" of the charge against him under Article 5(2) ECHR. The Government has not included in the Counter-Terrorism Bill a provision to improve the existing arrangements for parliamentary review of the operation of extended pre-charge detention, and the report puts forward amendments to the Bill to improve such arrangements. In the Committee's view the recent examples of questionable information sharing by the intelligence services, which risk making the UK complicit in torture or other inhuman or degrading treatment, show that there is a need for substantive legal safeguards to guarantee against the arbitrary and disproportionate use of the power to disclose and use such information. The Committee proposes amendments to strengthen safeguards.
Book Synopsis Human Rights and Counter-terrorism in America's Asia Policy by : Rosemary Foot
Download or read book Human Rights and Counter-terrorism in America's Asia Policy written by Rosemary Foot and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-11-25 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the effects of the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington of 11 September 2001 on America's human rights and counter-terrorism policies towards a number of countries in Asia. Five countries have been chosen for examination, divided into two front-lines states (Pakistan and Uzbekistan), two second-front countries (Indonesia and Malaysia), and a third-front country, China. The paper also looks at changes in US domestic legislation and its treatment of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay and elsewhere in order to analyse the extent to which the US promotion of an external human rights policy might also have been compromised by its own legislative changes as a result of the struggle against terrorism. The paper concludes that the attacks on US territory, overall, have constrained America's willingness and capacity to promote an external human rights policy with respect to these five countries. However, some attention - especially at the rhetorical level - to these countries' human rights records has been retained to differing degrees among the five states. This degree of difference is not explained entirely in reference to a country's perceived centrality to the struggle against terrorism. It depends on the extent to which the US executive and legislative branches are united - either singly or in combination - in their disapproval of a state's record, or in their understanding about how best to reach the policy goals that are sought.
Book Synopsis Counter-terrorism Policy and Human Rights (thirteenth Report) by : House of Lords
Download or read book Counter-terrorism Policy and Human Rights (thirteenth Report) written by House of Lords and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2008-10-13 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a report on aspects of the Government's counter-terrorism strategy since the 2005 election. This book draws attention to criticisms of the UK's counter-terrorism law and policy in various reports by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, and the UN Human Rights Committee. HC 1077.
Author :Great Britain: Parliament: Joint Committee on Human Rights Publisher :The Stationery Office ISBN 13 :9780108459702 Total Pages :78 pages Book Rating :4.4/5 (597 download)
Book Synopsis Counter-terrorism policy and human rights (seventeenth report) by : Great Britain: Parliament: Joint Committee on Human Rights
Download or read book Counter-terrorism policy and human rights (seventeenth report) written by Great Britain: Parliament: Joint Committee on Human Rights and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2010-03-25 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Joint Committee on Human Rights calls for a fundamental, independent review of the necessity for and proportionality of all counter-terrorism measures adopted since September 11 2001. It questions the way that the policy imperatives of national security and public safety have been used to justify squeezing out human rights considerations. Since September 11 2001, the Government has continuously claimed that there is a "public emergency threatening the life of the nation". The Committee questions whether the country has really been in this state for over eight years. A permanent state of emergency skews public debate about the justification for rights-limiting counter-terrorism measures. It is unacceptable that the Director General of the Security Service refuses to appear before it to give public evidence - despite giving public lectures and media interviews. The Committee finds the Government's narrow definition of complicity in torture significant and worrying and calls for an urgent independent inquiry into the allegations of complicity in torture. The Government should drop the draft bill still being held in reserve to allow pre-charge detention to be extended to 42 days. And more work should be done on measures - such as bail and the use of intercept evidence - that could reduce the use of pre-charge detention. The Intelligence and Security Committee should become a proper Parliamentary committee with an independent secretariat and legal advice and appointing an independent reviewer of counter-terror legislation who reports directly to Parliament not the Government.
Author :Great Britain: Parliament: Joint Committee on Human Rights Publisher :The Stationery Office ISBN 13 :9780104012307 Total Pages :52 pages Book Rating :4.0/5 (123 download)
Book Synopsis Counter-terrorism policy and human rights (ninth report) by : Great Britain: Parliament: Joint Committee on Human Rights
Download or read book Counter-terrorism policy and human rights (ninth report) written by Great Britain: Parliament: Joint Committee on Human Rights and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2008-02-25 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On 30th January 2008 the Home Secretary laid before both Houses of Parliament a draft Order to renew the control order legislation, the third annual extension of the control order regime. The Government takes the view that no amendments to the legal framework are necessary. The Committee disagrees and considers it imperative for the Government to amend counter-terrorism laws where experience has shown them to lead to breaches of human rights. Amongst their recommendations are: ensurance of timely availability of Lord Carlile's annual report on the control orders; the need to strengthen the intrusive powers contained in the control orders; modification of the Prevention of Terrorism Act to impose a maximum daily limit 12 hours on the curfew which can be imposed; review of the fairness of the special advocate procedure and a need to take into account the Committee's own earlier recommendations concerning this; maintaining the preferred policy of priority of prosecution; and greater transparency of decisions that prosecution is not possible.
Author :Great Britain: Parliament: Joint Committee on Human Rights Publisher :The Stationery Office ISBN 13 :9780104012260 Total Pages :72 pages Book Rating :4.0/5 (122 download)
Book Synopsis Counter-terrorism policy and human rights (eighth report) by : Great Britain: Parliament: Joint Committee on Human Rights
Download or read book Counter-terrorism policy and human rights (eighth report) written by Great Britain: Parliament: Joint Committee on Human Rights and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2008-02-07 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the Counter-Terrorism Bill before its second reading in the House of Commons. This title concentrates on five significant human rights issues needing thorough parliamentary scrutiny: pre-charge detention; post-charge questioning; control orders and special advocates; the threshold test for charging; and the admissibility of intercept.
Author :Great Britain: Parliament: Joint Committee on Human Rights Publisher :The Stationery Office ISBN 13 :9780104011317 Total Pages :164 pages Book Rating :4.0/5 (113 download)
Book Synopsis Counter-terrorism policy and human rights by : Great Britain: Parliament: Joint Committee on Human Rights
Download or read book Counter-terrorism policy and human rights written by Great Britain: Parliament: Joint Committee on Human Rights and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2007-07-30 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Copies are supplied by TSO's On-demand publishing section
Author :Great Britain: Parliament: Joint Committee on Human Rights Publisher :The Stationery Office ISBN 13 :9780108459481 Total Pages :94 pages Book Rating :4.4/5 (594 download)
Book Synopsis Counter-terrorism policy and human rights (sixteenth report) by : Great Britain: Parliament: Joint Committee on Human Rights
Download or read book Counter-terrorism policy and human rights (sixteenth report) written by Great Britain: Parliament: Joint Committee on Human Rights and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2010-03-04 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Counter-terrorism policy and human rights (sixteenth Report) : Annual renewal of control orders legislation 2010, ninth report of session 2009-10, report, together with formal minutes and written Evidence
Book Synopsis Counter-Terrorism and Human Rights in the Case Law of the European Court of Human Rights by : Ana Salinas de Frias
Download or read book Counter-Terrorism and Human Rights in the Case Law of the European Court of Human Rights written by Ana Salinas de Frias and published by Council of Europe. This book was released on 2013-04-01 with total page 461 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Terrorism has become one of the major threats facing both states and the international community, in particular after the terrorist attacks in the United States, Madrid and London, which revealed a whole new scale and dimension of the phenomenon. An effective response is absolutely necessary; this response, however, cannot undermine democracy, human rights, the rule of law or the supreme values inherent to these principles.There is no universally agreed definition of "terrorism", nor is there an international Jurisdiction before which the perpetrators of terrorist crimes can be brought to account. The European Court of Human Rights is the first international Jurisdiction to deal with such a phenomenon. For many decades and through more than four hundred cases, it has elaborated a clear, integrated and articulated body of case law on responses to terrorism from a human rights and rule of law perspective. Thus, this is a handbook on counter-terrorism with a special focus on due respect for human rights and rule of law.This book compiles the doctrine laid down by the European Court of Human Rights in this field with a view to facilitating the task of adjudicators, legal officers, lawyers, international IGOs, NGOs, policy makers, researchers, victims and all those committed to fighting this scourge. The book presents a careful analysis of this body of case law and the general principles applicable to the fight against terrorism resulting from each particular case. It also includes a compendium of the main cases dealt with by the Strasbourg Court in this field and will prove to be a most useful guiding tool in the sensitive area of counter-terrorism and human rights.
Book Synopsis Un Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities by : Joint Committee on Human Rights
Download or read book Un Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities written by Joint Committee on Human Rights and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2009-04 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report follows the Committee's first report of session 2008-09 on the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (HL paper 9/HC 93, ISBN 9780104014165) in which the Committee welcomed the Government's intention to ratify the Convention but drew attention to proposals for reservations and interpretative declarations. The Committee was concerned that there had been insufficient scrutiny of these proposals, not least because draft texts had not been published, and that the Office for Disability Issues had not robustly challenged Government departments about their proposals. The Government laid the Convention before Parliament on 3 March, heralding the beginning of the ratification process. Four reservations and one interpretative declaration were proposed. The Committee has criticised the Government for ruling out formal consultation on these proposals and also drawn attention to the limited opportunities for parliamentary scrutiny and control of the ratification of treaties. Ratification should take priority over potentially lengthy and futile discussions about whether or not to enter reservations but the Government's approach to some of the reservations has been unduly cautious and may detract from the position role the UK has played in relation to the Convention. The Committee considers that the reservation relating to service in the armed forces is open to challenge as incompatible with the object and purpose of the Convention. The reservation relating to immigration control is felt to be too broad, its purpose has not been adequately explained and so it should be dropped. The Government should clarify matters in relation to the reservation and declaration on education and should consult on how to deal with the treatment of benefits appointees.
Author :Great Britain. Parliament. Joint Committee on Human Rights Publisher :The Stationery Office ISBN 13 :9780104013687 Total Pages :116 pages Book Rating :4.0/5 (136 download)
Book Synopsis Monitoring the Government's Response to Human Rights Judgments by : Great Britain. Parliament. Joint Committee on Human Rights
Download or read book Monitoring the Government's Response to Human Rights Judgments written by Great Britain. Parliament. Joint Committee on Human Rights and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2008 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the Committee's second annual report monitoring the Government's response to human rights judgments in the European Court of Human Rights. The Committee criticises the Government for its failure to respond to many of its recommendations in its previous report (17th report session 2006-07, HL 128/HC 728, ISBN 9780104011065). The Committee believes the Government should take a consistent and transparent approach across departments to the way in which it responds to declarations of incompatibility and judgments fro the European Court, with the Ministry of Justice co-ordinating the response to adverse judgments. This report also examines a number of issues arising from outstanding judgments: access to artificial insemination for prisoners and their partners; controlling membership of trade union; prisoners' voting rights; investigations into cases involving the use of lethal force; security of tenure for gypsies and travellers, and the corporal punishment of children.
Author :Great Britain: Parliament: Joint Committee on Human Rights Publisher :The Stationery Office ISBN 13 :9780108459368 Total Pages :32 pages Book Rating :4.4/5 (593 download)
Book Synopsis Demonstrating respect for rights? by : Great Britain: Parliament: Joint Committee on Human Rights
Download or read book Demonstrating respect for rights? written by Great Britain: Parliament: Joint Committee on Human Rights and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2010-02-03 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Government response to HL 141/ 522, session 2008-09 (ISBN 9780108444777) which was a follow up to HL 47-I/HC 320-I, session 2008-09 (ISBN 9780104014530)
Author :Great Britain: Parliament: Joint Committee on Human Rights Publisher :The Stationery Office ISBN 13 :9780108459269 Total Pages :82 pages Book Rating :4.4/5 (592 download)
Book Synopsis Legislative scrutiny by : Great Britain: Parliament: Joint Committee on Human Rights
Download or read book Legislative scrutiny written by Great Britain: Parliament: Joint Committee on Human Rights and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2010-01-18 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Constitutional Reform and Governance Bill was re-introduced in the House of Commons on 19 November 2009 and the Committee welcomes a number of aspects of the Bill which is implementing some of the commitments made by the Prime Minister in his Governance of Britain statement in July 2007. But the Committee considers there are a number of significant omissions from the Bill including in relation to judicial appointments, parliamentary scrutiny of security and intelligence matters, and the restrictive judicial interpretation of the meaning of public function in the Human Rights Act. They recommend amendments relating to the latter two points. They also look at Protest around Parliament, Ratification of Treaties and Right to a fair hearing and access to a court in the determination of civil rights.The Video Recordings Bill was introduced into the House of Commons on 15 December 2009 and is a fast track piece of legislation which repeals and revives the provisions of the Video Recordings Act 1984 in order to enable them to be notified to the European Commission under the Technical Standards Directive and so secure its enforceability. The Committee considers the human rights issues raised by this Bill should be subjected to parliamentary scrutiny. However as the 1984 Act, serves as an important child protection purpose, that are currently unenforceable, the Committee accepts the need for fast tracking this legislation and does not propose to further scrutinise this Bill.
Author :Great Britain: Parliament: Joint Committee on Human Rights Publisher :The Stationery Office ISBN 13 :9780108459603 Total Pages :142 pages Book Rating :4.4/5 (596 download)
Book Synopsis Equality and Human Rights Commission by : Great Britain: Parliament: Joint Committee on Human Rights
Download or read book Equality and Human Rights Commission written by Great Britain: Parliament: Joint Committee on Human Rights and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2010-03-15 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Incorporating HC 1842-i and ii of session 2008-09
Book Synopsis The Un Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities by :
Download or read book The Un Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities written by and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2009 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities builds on existing human rights treaties including the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the International Covenant on Economic Social and Cultural Rights. The UN Handbook for Parliamentarians on the Convention stresses that it is not intended to create new rights, but "clarifies the obligations and legal duties of States to respect and ensure the equal enjoyment of all human rights by all persons with disabilities". Its purpose is to: "Promote, protect and ensure the full enjoyment of all human rights and fundamental freedoms by all persons with disabilities, and to promote respect for their inherent dignity." The UK was among the first countries to sign the Convention on 30 March 2007. The findings of our recent inquiry on the rights of adults with learning disabilities showed that although UK law and policy on the treatment of adults with learning disabilities takes a human rights based approach, the day to day experiences of people with learning disabilities are not so positive. Ratification will send a strong signal to all people with disabilities in the UK, and abroad, that the Government takes equality and the protection of their human rights seriously. The Government first publicly stated that reservations to the Convention were being considered in its response to our Report on the treatment of adults with learning disabilities, in May 2008, more than a year after it signed the Convention. Despite the Committee's call for a full explanation of the government's views on the compatibility of domestic law with the Convention, the were then provided with little detail on the reservations being considered or the Government's approach to the process. The Committee considers that progress towards ratification of the Convention by the UK has so far lacked transparency and has unfortunately alienated disabled people and their organisations. This is unacceptable in the light of the clear Convention commitment which the Government intends to make to the involvement of disabled people in the development of policies and laws which affect them. This approach undermines the previous role that the UK Government has played in championing equality for disabled people and their leading role in negotiating the terms of the UNCRPD.
Author :Great Britain. Parliament. Joint Committee on Human Rights Publisher :The Stationery Office ISBN 13 :9780108459139 Total Pages :136 pages Book Rating :4.4/5 (591 download)
Book Synopsis Any of Our Business? by : Great Britain. Parliament. Joint Committee on Human Rights
Download or read book Any of Our Business? written by Great Britain. Parliament. Joint Committee on Human Rights and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2009 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Businesses must have regard to human rights in several different contexts. Difficulties may arise if there are weaker governance mechanisms for protecting human rights overseas, or if firms take different approaches to the protection of certain human rights in the UK and elsewhere. This report considers a complex range of issues, starting from the position that the UK should play a leadership role to ensure that all firms respect human rights wherever they operate. The work of the UN Secretary General's Special Representative on Human Rights and Transnational Corporations is welcome but the Committee would support clearer guidance for meeting obligations. The OECD also has guidelines on multinational enterprises as monitored by National Contact Points. The UK National Contact Point, though much improved, still falls short of the necessary criteria and powers needed by an effective remedial body. The Committee argues that an international agreement on business and human rights should be the ultimate objective, although they accept that no such agreement is likely in the near future. There is considerable scope for joint working on a regional level and globally to agree a consistent approach to business and human rights and the Committee believes that the UK Government could do more to explain the responsibility on businesses to respect human rights and the standard of due diligence this entails
Author :Great Britain. Parliament. Joint Committee on Human Rights Publisher :The Stationery Office ISBN 13 :9780108459245 Total Pages :222 pages Book Rating :4.4/5 (592 download)
Book Synopsis Work of the Committee in 2008-09: Second Report of Session 2009-10 Report, Together with Formal Minutes and Written Evidence by : Great Britain. Parliament. Joint Committee on Human Rights
Download or read book Work of the Committee in 2008-09: Second Report of Session 2009-10 Report, Together with Formal Minutes and Written Evidence written by Great Britain. Parliament. Joint Committee on Human Rights and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2010 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A report that provides an overview of the Committee's work during the 2008-09 parliamentary session and draws attention to improvements to the human rights landscape in the UK which it has commended in reports during the year. It also mentions a number of continuing areas for concern.
