After the horrors of Second World War, European countries established a new political and legal framework with aim protecting individuals against excesses State preventing such from happening again. This order was launched by Council Europe, founded in 1949 promoting human rights democracy throughout Europe. The Council’s first task to draft Convention on Human Rights, adopted 4 November 1950, ...

It focuses on intersectionality as one of possible parameters contemporary constitutionalism. examines the interconnection fundamental notions non-discrimination, race, gender, class and labour market in design notion based analysis judgment handed down by Inter-American Court Human Rights case explosion fireworks factory Santo Antônio de Jesus (BA), drawing inspiration from thought Kimberlé Cr...

The attention given to bioethics and biolaw has grown throughout the decades in framework of European Union, since first steps were taken field medical products, with adoption Council Directive 65/65/EEC. Moving from EU Treaties, which provide legal bases for biorights as well some potentially competing principles interests, four freedoms, this study adopts a human rights-based approach assesse...

In 1994, the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) affirmed that Sexual and Reproductive Health and rights (SRH&R) are human rights. Pursuant to this, several international instruments contributed to global consensus on how reproductive health rights are intrinsically linked to other fundamental human rights. The Government of the Republic of Zambia (GRZ) has fully commi...

This article is an attempt to defend the rights of the traditional family: not simply against the redefinition of marriage, but more fundamentally against a re-conceptualization of human freedom and human rights. To this end, it contrasts what Saint John Paul II calls an individualistic understanding of freedom and a personalistic notion of the same in order to argue that human freedom is calle...