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Svarbiausios žodžio laisvės ribojimo sąlygos Jungtinėse Amerikos Valstijose
(2011)
Freedom of speech in the United States is protected by the First Amendment to the United States Constitution. Such provision for freedom of speech shows that this freedom plays one of the exceptional roles in the system ...
Individualių žmogaus teisių gynimo galimybės Europos Žmogaus Teisių Teisme ir Jungtinių Tautų Žmogaus teisių komitete: lyginamasis aspektas
(2012)
The article is dedicated to the comparative analysis of the United Nations and European human rights system with the goal to establish a more efficient human rights forum. The article covers seven efficiency criteria ...
The Arab charter on human rights: the naissance of new regional human rights system or a challenge to the universality of human rights?
(2010)
The issue of human rights has always been a matter shared by politicians, lawyers, philosophers and sociologists. Since the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights scholars and human rights activists have ...
Response to large-scale atrocities: humanitarian intervention and the responsibility to protect
(2010)
The United Nations has shown recurrent inability to respond to international threats caused by severe human rights violations and thus failed to perform one of its main function—preservation of international peace and ...
Human rights in healthcare: some remarks on the limits of the right to healthcare
(2010)
Notwithstanding the expectations related to the ‘invasion’ of human rights into the field of healthcare, the complexity of this field raises some problematic questions about the applicability of such a legal instrument. ...
The concept of enforced disappearances in international law
(2010)
Enforced disappearance is not a new type of human rights violation. This phenomenon is taking place all over the world. Nevertheless, with the exception of the single provision in the Rome Statute, there is no universal ...
Apie pirmąsias konstitucijas ir jų reikšmę
(2010)
In this article the author analyzes the first written constitutions adopted at the end of the eighteenth century (the Constitution of the United States of 1787, the Constitution of Polish – Lithuanian State and the ...
Review of decisions of the European Court of Human Rights in cases against the Republic of Lithuania in 2010
(2011)
This article presents the review of the cases decided by the European Court of Human Rights against Lithuania during 2010. Authors provide the summary of relevant cases so that the potential reader is updated with the ...
Responsibility of transnational corporations for human rights violations: deficiencies of international legal background and solutions offered by national and regional legal tools
(2012)
The article deals with the question how transnational corporations can bear direct responsibility for human rights abuses they commit by analysing the deficiencies of the current international legal background with respect ...
Reservations to human rights treaties: problematic aspects related to gender issues
(2013)
In this article the author analyses specific reservations that are being done to the international documents for the protection of human rights and whether Vienna Convention on the Law of the Treaties applies to those human ...