Questions tagged [human-rights]
For questions about human rights and their protection under law. "Human rights" are those that are broadly recognized as both universal and worthy of respect by law even if not explicitly protected by law.
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Can my landlord add additional fees for items listed as included in my rent?
I live in Virginia,USA and I have been in my apartment for 3 years and each year when I sign my lease for renewal it states that my washer and dryer fees are included in my rent if applicable. The ...
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What services is it a war crime to cut off or eliminate access to?
Many news sources say cutting off a region from water, intentionally is a war crime.
This is rooted in proclimations like the INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE OF THE RED CROSS (ICRC),
In essence, water is a ...
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Can the school force me to log into my social media accounts?
I live in the UK and go to a public school. Sometimes the school will force students to log into the social media account because there might be some cyberbullying. Is this legal if they have a reason?...
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Is it legal for me to ask people who are applying to work for me if they were in a sorority in college and not hire them if they were? [closed]
Long story short, I have issues with sorority girls dating back to when I was younger that I don't really want to elaborate on here. I have little to no problem with fraternity brothers, and so I ...
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Can civil action be taken against private people for breaching, or impeding/obstructing, or chilling the exercise of one’s human rights?
Can civil action be taken against private people for breaching, or impeding/obstructing, or chilling the exercise of one’s human rights?
Alice assaulted Bob at a demonstration by grabbing his placards ...
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Do people possess the "right to live"?
Regardless of what country of law is in question, is there an inalienable right to live, like Thomas Jefferson effectively said in the US Declaration of Independence?
Consider that some force ...
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Does a person have a right to a bench trial?
There is the famous right to be tried by a jury of your peers, but do you also have the right to a bench trial, if you prefer?
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Identifying people protected by estate rights
When a person writes an article or book about a living person, the author has to deal with issues like publicity rights, rights to privacy, moral rights, and defamation. If I'm not mistaken, these ...
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ABRA Powers violative of human rights act
Parliament tomorrow passes the Arbitrary Bullocks Removal Act 2023, entitling (but crucially not obliging; in other words, bestowing a power though not a duty) the minister of Justice to arbitrarily ...
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What is the story with declarations of incompatibility and the otherwise ostensible binding Ness of the human rights act?
My understanding was always the governments couldn’t actact contrarily to HRA rights.
On the other hand there is this regime of judicial so called “declarations of incompatibility” which are albeit ...
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Legal challenges against age-restricted housing
It’s fairly common when looking for real estate to see “adults only,” “seniors only,” or “55+” restrictions for strata/condominium properties. I would expect this to be a cut and dried case of ...
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How to accomplish a court hearing after arrest without being stuck in prison cell for more than 4 years like Assange? [closed]
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Police: I'm arresting you.
Me: You are breaking the law, what I do is minor.
Police: No, I'm arresting you, what you do is more than minor.
Arrested.
Now the question is: ...
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What laws define resident and employee rights and protections on federal land, esp. administered by the National Park Service?
How do you look up which laws apply to people who live, work, operate businesses, etc., on a particular parcel of U.S. federal land, especially on land administered by the National Park Service?
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How to get official confirmation if anyone has filled a police complaint against me or not
My wife has alleged that she made a police complaint against me in Germany for a false domestic violence case. Is there a way to find out if any complaint has truly been filed against me or not if I ...
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Is free willing protected rights? What if Artificial Intelligence agent have self conscious, is it protected from human editing its willing? [closed]
Say it is now some years later, we have created an artificial intelligence (AI) agent with self conscious and capable of thinking in a loop of thought under bounded rationality just like humans do...
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Is there any legal avenue for declaration of residence in Denmark with the right to not have a home?
This website (https://international.kk.dk/cpr-number) clearly states a condition for officially becoming a resident in Denmark and getting a CPR number is that you have an actual residence, a place to ...
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Musical video production [closed]
I paid a video man to film a lady dancer and myself in a hotel dancing to my new music to be released. I wrote the lyrics, composed, recorded and sang it myself. He signed a contract with the hotel ...
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Are there or can there be human rights to have access to AI? [closed]
While I am doing math, computer science or programming, I am greatly benefiting from the use of GPT4 (ChatGPT4) and I don't want that some governmental agency removes access to GPT. I have not had the ...
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What are the “protocols” to the ECHR?
The European convention of human rights has “protocols” to it. What essentially are these?
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Does property include money in the sense of ECHR right of peaceful enjoyment?
ECHR protocol 1 article 1 protects the right to peacefully enjoy one’s property. Does this include money? For example if one has frozen, seized or confiscated by fines, would this be Applicable as ...
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Does protocol 1 article 1 (peaceful enjoyment) cover charging of rent for another to occupy property?
Does the right to peacefully enjoy one’s (residential/real) property [and possessions…] in the ECHR guarantee/protect the right to let it out to others for them to inhabit in exchange for rent?
In ...
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Are there any EU countries in which it is not allowed as a matter of course to own (and let out) unlimited residential properties? [closed]
Underlying this question I would like to know if there is anything in the ECHR for example that inherently proscribes a country stigmatising to any degree the ownership of properties (perhaps beyond a ...
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What are the Statute of Limitations for New York City and State Human Rights Laws?
I am looking for some clarification on the Statute of Limitations for both the New York State Human Rights Law and the New York City Human Rights Law.
Under Section 297 of the New York State Human ...
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Rights of remand prisoner in India to visit ailing sick mother [closed]
A remand prisoner in India having criminal cases in multiple states.
In remand for over 8 years.
The prisoner's mother is very sick with various health issues and wanted to spend few days with mother ...
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Is Uruguay violating humans rights by not conceding the right to nationality?
Myanmar and Uruguay are currently the only countries in the world that deny immigrants any path to naturalization. Uruguayan legal citizenship has special characteristics. A person who acquires it ...
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Do all legal persons have human rights?
For example, a corporate legal person can be proceeded against with criminal charges. Instinctively, one would be inclined to apply such "human" rights as that to a fair trial in protecting ...
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What is the appropriate court for an action relating to a breach of the Human Rights Act 1998 (HRA)?
See Why must claims against the police for human rights act breaches be brought within 1 year?
If a public body acts contrary to one’s convention rights, what is the appropriate court in which to take ...
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What was the most direct predecessor to Human Rights Act 1998?
HRA is said to be "constitutional." Which is slightly peculiar, as "constitutional" acts often precede the majority of a republic's other active statutes, and come reasonably early ...
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What type of human being can help? Which one specifically? [closed]
I have with me more than 1500 documents associated with abduction and human trafficking as well as probate fraud and political corruption associated with the district attorney's Office in Orange ...
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What is the definition of "Race" used in ICERD?
It seems like it's not defined in the convention (International Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Racial Discrimination). But does race only mean colour in the convention?
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International standards on prisoners' right to vote
Are there any international standards or declarations/conventions on prisoners' right to vote?
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ICCPR article 26 "birth or other status"
What does birth or other status mean in Article 26 of International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights?
Does it have the same connotation as "political or other opinion" in that the ...
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How is the 'right to life' reconciled with the legal authority of military officers? (to issue orders that will cause deaths)
I'm not familiar with the academic or practical debates for this topic so I would like to ask it here.
The closest related was this decision of the German supreme court regarding plane shootdowns: ...
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What is the legal status of New Zealand's tobacco legislation vis-a-vis the Human Rights Act of 1993?
The government of New Zealand recently passed a law aimed at eliminating tobacco usage. Rather than prohibiting the purchase of tobacco products altogether, the law instead prohibits their purchase by ...
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If you know someone is committing infant abuse, do you also commit a crime if you choose not to report it?
What are a person's legal responsibilities if they believe that someone is currently committing infant abuse, but are not certain that they are doing so.
For example, they might learn this from ...
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How speedy must a trial be to for the purposes of article 6, ECHR?
Article 6 of the European Convention on Human Rights requires criminal trials to be fair and speedy. What is the time threshold for a trial to transpire is for it to be deemed "speedy" or ...
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Is banning crusade costumes in Qatar denying freedom of expression?
Crusaders banned in qatar
English fans with crusader costumes were banned in Qatar.
Is this a violation of freedom of speech/expression and, consequently, a violation of basic human rights of Article ...
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What effect would leaving the ECHR have on the cases it was used in?
There is a growing interest within the UK for leaving the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) with a Government and Parliament online petition reaching 17,260 signatures supporting this idea. The ...
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How much social media control can your employer exert over you?
Can a swiss employer force the employee to change the display picture and full name of your personal linkedin profile?
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Is there any country that acknowledges people’s right to not participate?
I was trying to look through the US Code to see where it says what I would consider to be the axioms of a country and its law, something like:
There is an entity called “The United Stated”
This is ...
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What law is to prevent to say n-word in France
This is a question I am asking because I am not in best of health and I have been bullied by some nationals which are non-european , non -african.
I am african and study in a university of France. ...
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Does the acceptance of a 'legitimate aim' in the context of Article 8 ECHR also imply its acceptance in the context of Article 14 ECHR?
Suppose that the European Court of Human Rights qualifies a certain policy aim, such as the protection of the Member State's health system, as constituting a 'legitimate aim' in the context of Article ...
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I'm a victim of racism by the border police of Bulgaria [closed]
I was excited to visit Bulgaria, I flew all the way to Sofia (Bulgaria), but unfortunately, I was not able to enter it for no reason. I provided everything they wanted me to provide, but no luck (...
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Are non-contact visitations at max-security federal prisons sometimes supervised? (US)
Not sure if this answer as posed in the title is sufficiently about law to be on-topic. If so, my question defers to the more legal alternative:
Is it legal for a federal prison to supervise the non-...
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Search warrants for the property of people not suspected of a crime
I'm interested in the New York City jurisdiction.
Imagine a person is involved, or suspected to be involved, in a crime, yet they are not suspected of having committed any crime. For example, imagine ...
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Can prisoners of war be exchanged against their will?
Assume the following situation:
You live under an authoritarian regime.
Your country is at war with another country, which has a far more favorable human rights record.
Your attitude of your regime ...
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The right to vote and property ownership?
In 1792, in France even men without property were enfranchised.
How was it before exactly? What is meant by ‘without property’? Only those who didn’t own a home or a piece of land? Or any kind of ...
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Does the arrivecan app go against the Canadian charter?
I was looking through the Canadian charter, and Section 6 piqued my interest. It states, in subsection 2, that
Every citizen of Canada and every person who has the status of a permanent resident of ...
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What are my rights if my boss paid me 600 euro too much for 2 years long?
My little brother, lets call him A for now, came to me today and said his boss, call him B, came to him and said that he (B) had been paying him (A) 600 euro too much for 2 years long. Ofcourse B ...
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Do sentient Artificial Intelligences have legal rights?
There has been lots of talk about whether sentient AI (assuming such emerge) would have rights under existing laws, but I don't understand it at all, from a legal standpoint.
Take the Declaration of ...
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