Intersex/disorders of sex development advocacy groups and associated health care professionals question the legitimacy of the Council of Europe issue paper, express their worries about its potentially harmful consequences, and urge the Council of Europe to consult more widely with relevant stakeholders.

1. On April 24, 2009 the World Health Organization (WHO) announced that it had received reports from the United States and Mexico about a new form of swine influenza, Type A (H1N1). Although the confirmed cases in the United States were relatively mild, the reports from Mexico were more alarming. Fifty-nine individuals, most of whom had been young and healthy, were dead in Mexico City alone.1 A...

Scholars have long discussed whether the rise of China poses a threat to Liberal International Order. However, there are methodological challenges studying effect rising power on established norms. In particular, participation powers in order is not exogenously determined. To make an empirical contribution this debate, we focus Beijing’s influence as member Human Rights Council. We exploit fact...

Abstract In the last two decades, Russian state actors and Orthodox Church have come to play an increasingly important role in undermining of established understandings international human rights law by reinterpreting its aims repurposing institutions, particular Universal Declaration Human Rights, United Nations Rights Council, European Court Rights. church leaders appropriated coopted languag...

Since the end of 2010s, some UN human rights treaty bodies have affirmed and enhanced states’ obligations in relation to environment. This “green turn,” deeply influenced by jurisprudence regional tribunals work Special Procedures, raises question potential recognition an autonomous right a healthy environment—that is, free-standing that is not primarily derived from existing rights. The claim ...

Canada Gay Lesbian and Bisexual Resource Directory [11] Canadian Human Rights Commission [12] Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives [13] Canadian Race Relations Foundation [14] Council of Canadians with Disabilities [15] Equality for Gays and Lesbians Everywhere (EGALE) [16] Human Rights in Canada: A Historical Perspective [17] Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG) [18] Urban A...

Canada Gay Lesbian and Bisexual Resource Directory [11] Canadian Human Rights Commission [12] Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives [13] Canadian Race Relations Foundation [14] Council of Canadians with Disabilities [15] Equality for Gays and Lesbians Everywhere (EGALE) [16] Human Rights in Canada: A Historical Perspective [17] Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG) [18] Urban A...

Canada Gay Lesbian and Bisexual Resource Directory [11] Canadian Human Rights Commission [12] Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives [13] Canadian Race Relations Foundation [14] Council of Canadians with Disabilities [15] Equality for Gays and Lesbians Everywhere (EGALE) [16] Human Rights in Canada: A Historical Perspective [17] Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG) [18] Urban A...