Since the adoption of term femicide for gender-based killings women, theoretical development and transition this definition to a legal concept has contributed acknowledgment phenomenon as most extreme manifestation violence against women. In international sphere, regional systems protection human rights appear fertile soil victims claim protection. Consequently, European Court, Inter-American, ...

Background: In all wars, the only group that suffers even more than the military is the civilians, because they are the target of these conflicts due to their physiological condition, and because they are less able to defend themselves, they are more at risk than others. Individuals are exposed and more exposed to violence and violations of rights and freedoms than any other individual or group...

Twenty-eight in depth interviews were conducted with victims, stakeholders and criminal justice staff to investigate legislative policing responses image-based sexual abuse England Wales. The research identifies fundamental failures within these therefore calls for urgent change. Findings indicate that victims face prosecution barriers due various limitations the law as well police failure impl...

International human rights law, as a system underpinned by the Westphalian paradigm, heavily relies on role of territorial States in protection rights. However, model that allocates obligations within and between suffers serious limitations regarding corporate abuses. Host States, whose territory abuse occurred, are often unwilling and/or unable to hold TNCs liable provide remedies for victims....

317 Evidence of severe torture in Zimbabwe, which is experiencing unrest in the weeks leading up to the country’s presidential election in March, has been uncovered by a human rights organisation. A delegation from Physicians for Human Rights, Denmark, which visited Zimbabwe last month, has reported finding “a series of persons who gave consistent and similar accounts of exposure to torture.” M...

Sexual violence within the context of armed conflict is not a recent phenomenon. It has existed for as long existed. According to international law, Bosnia and Herzegovina must compensate victims sexual during war, thereby mitigating effects such war crimes. However, Herzegovina's failure effectively implement reparations wartime negative impact on their status. The reparation system are ineffe...