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European Court of Human Rights: Case of Youth Initiative for Human Rights v. Serbia Ghent University
Legal Pluralism, Human Rights and the Right to Vote: The Case of the Noken System in Papua Hasselt University
The goal of this article is to explore the clash between international human rights law and a legal pluralist framework in the case of the noken system and also to investigate potential solutions to the clash. Elections in Indonesia are generally founded on the principle of direct, universal, free, secret, honest and fair voting. There is a notable exception in the Province of Papua, where tribes in the Central Mountains area are following the ...
Re-conceptualizing the right to seek and obtain asylum in international law : the role of regional human rights systems Ghent University
Over the past few years the issue of asylum has progressively become interrelated with human rights. Asylum-related stresses, including refugee flows and mass displacements, have mitigated the traditional idea of asylum as an absolute state right, in so far as international human rights standards of protection require that states may have the responsibility to provide asylum seekers with protection. Following this premise, the article argues ...
Freedom of expression in the digital environment : how the European Court of Human Rights has contributed to the protection of the right to freedom of expression and information on the internet Ghent University
This chapter analyzes the jurisprudence of the ECtHR on the right to freedom of expression (Article 10 ECHR) situated in the Internet environment. In a series of cases the ECtHR found that interferences with certain types of Internet content were necessary in a democratic society, referring to the (risk of) harmful impact of the content at issue, due to the Internet environment. The ECtHR in other domains found violations of Article 10 ECHR, ...