Freedom of religion and conscience is regarded among one of the human rights in international documents signed or declared after the World War II. In this paper I investigate from a legal perspective whether the freedom of religion and conscience and religious minority rights that Alevis enjoy in Turkey are in line with the standards in relevant international documents. Therefore I firstly exam...

the criminal matters is one of the important achievements of modern human right. the mentioned concept is also the initiative of european court of human rights and one of the important elements of the implementation of article 6 of the european convention on human rights. one of the main results of recognizing this concept is the fact that administrative and disciplinary violations that may not...

On the 18th June the United Nations Human Rights Council unanimously adopted a resolution (A/HRC/8/L.18) on ‘The elimination of discrimination against persons affected by leprosy and their family members.’ This historic resolution was sponsored by 59 member states and made specific reference to key earlier documents, namely the Universal of Declaration of Human Rights (1948) and the Internation...

the international responsibility of state, constitute one of the most important questions in the field of the international law. with adoption of draft article about state responsibility by ilc (2001), the subject of human rights, remain. in the other word, is this draft, include any field of state responsibility and any conduct arising from private actors, or the subject of human rights remind...