Academic literature on the topic 'Inter-American Convention on the Prevention'

While certain aspects of women's rights had been addressed in earlier OAS instruments and more generally in the American Declaration on the Rights and Duties of Man and in the American Convention on Human Rights, many consider that the issue of women's rights was first incorporated in the normative corpus of the Inter-American Human Rights System (IAHRS) with the 1994 adoption of the Belém do Pará Convention on the Prevention, Punishment, and Eradication of Violence Against Women. This treaty obliges states to prevent, punish, and eradicate violence against women, taking special account of vulnerabilities due to race, ethnic background, migrant status, age, pregnancy, socioeconomic situation, etc. It defines the concept of violence against women and forces states to ensure that women live free of violence in the public and private sphere. It also grants the Commission and the Court the ability to process individual complaints regarding alleged violations of the treaty. Since 1994, the Commission has also established a Rapporteurship on the rights of women, which assists the IACHR in its thematic or country reports and visits, as well as in the processing of women's rights–related petitions. In recent years, the jurisprudence of the Commission and the Court has addressed several fundamental issues related to women's rights, in particular regarding violence against women, women's right to equality, and reproductive health.

Latin American feminists brought up the issue of violence in the 1970s under military rule or situations of armed conflict. These contexts made feminists specifically concerned with state violence against women. Women's organizations pointed to torture and rape of political prisoners and the use of rape as a weapon of war and connected these forms of violence to deeper societal patterns of subordination and violence against women in both the private and public spheres. Processes of democratization in the region brought new opportunities to institutionalize norms to end violence against women (VAW), and in many countries feminists managed to get the issue on the political agenda. In the mid 1990s, the region pioneered international legislation on VAW that uniquely included state-sponsored violence. The Inter-American Convention on the Prevention, Punishment and Eradication of Violence against Women (1994) established an international obligation for states to prevent, investigate, and punish VAW regardless of whether it takes place in the home, the community, or in the public sphere. While Latin American governments massively ratified this convention, national legislation was not brought in line with the broad scope of the international convention. This points to the complex and often contradictory dynamics of institutionalizing norms to oppose VAW in multilevel settings.

The 11 September 2001 terrorist attacks introduced the United States to domestic and complex terrorism. According to terrorism experts, public and private sector targets are indistinguishable to the perpetrators of this evolved form of terrorism. The global chemical industry’s counteroffensive against international terrorism depends in part on implementation of the Chemicals Weapons Convention (CWC), long supported by the American Chemistry Council (ACC) and its sister associations in the International Council of Chemical Associations (ICCA). This paper describes the U.S. chemical industry’s response to September 11th and how adherence to the letter and spirit of the CWC helps prevent terrorism.

On 18 July 2008, the OECD Council adopted amendments to the OECD Model Convention, by which inter alia the mutual agreement procedure of Article 25 was supplemented with an arbitration clause. This clause provides for a mandatory arbitration procedure if contracting states fail to reach a mutual agreement within a two-year period if the taxpayer request so. Subsequent to this arbitration clause, the OECD also developed procedural rules that states can use during the arbitration procedure. This article evaluates whether, almost six years after its adoption, the OECD arbitration clause has been included in double tax conventions concerning the prevention of double taxation. This article also evaluates to what extent the procedural rules provided for by the OECD are adopted.

Recent years have witnessed a troubling rise in reports of assault, intimidation, and abuse directed at politically active women. The United Nations General Assembly first called for zero tolerance for violence against female candidates and elected officials in Resolution 66/130 in 2011. In 2012, Bolivia became the first country in the world to criminalize political violence and harassment against women, in response to a more than decade-long campaign by locally elected women to document the numerous injuries and abuses they confronted. Resonating across the region, this development led the states-parties to the Inter-American Convention on the Prevention, Punishment and Eradication of Violence against Women to endorse a Declaration on Political Violence and Harassment against Women in 2015.

On May 14, 1954 the Inter-governmental Conference on the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict which convened in The Hague, managed to adopt the text of the Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict (1954 Hague Convention). Apart from the Convention as such, the Regulations for the Execution of the Convention, a Protocol directed towards the prevention of the exportation of cultural property from occupied territories during armed conflicts, and three Resolutions were adopted.

The article carries out a systematic analysis of the principle of prohibition of family violence in terms of the implementation of European and international standards in the conditions of martial law in Ukraine. The essence of the principle of prohibition of violence in the family is analyzed, taking into account the provisions of the UN Declaration on the Eradication of Violence against Women, the Inter-American Convention on the Prevention, Punishment and Elimination of Violence against Women, the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa, adopted in Maputo ( Mozambique) on July 11, 2003 and the Istanbul Convention. The provisions of the EU Strategy on gender equality for 2020-2025 have been studied. Attention was drawn to the need to implement comprehensive measures to prevent and combat gender-based violence. Particular attention is paid to the Directive on combating violence against women and domestic violence, proposed for adoption in 2022.
 The consequences of last year's ratification by Ukraine of the Convention of the Council of Europe on the prevention of violence against women and domestic violence and the fight against these phenomena have been established with significant caveats.
 The practice of implementing obligations to implement the mechanism for the prevention of domestic violence has been clarified, including through the analysis of the activities of various services in Ukraine, as well as national and regional statistics on domestic violence.
 It is substantiated that Ukraine is not responsible for the perpetration of domestic violence in the occupied and non-controlled territories. At the same time, it is responsible for the effectiveness of the principle of combating domestic violence in conditions of war in controlled territories. In view of the statistical data, the deterioration of the situation, taking into account the need to implement European approaches, it is proposed to make changes to the Law "On Prevention and Combating Domestic Violence" and to provide for such a form of modern violence as cyber violence and establish responsibility for it.

While the United States is now an international leader in the fight against genocide and human rights abuses, it only recently ratified the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide– forty years after the convention's unanimous adoption by the UN General Assembly. Korey provides a description of the long struggle for ratification of the Genocide Convention, detailing decades of work by a committee of fifty-two nongovernmental organizations lobbying the Senate and the American Bar Association, the treaty's key opponent. Despite the public support for the United Nations and human rights by the United States, failure to ratify the Genocide Convention stemmed primarily from the fear that international covenants were threats to U.S. sovereignty. The United States finally overcame this fear with the ratification of the Genocide Convention in 1988, which opened the door for U.S. leadership.

The Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACtHR), after 28 years of conflict with the Argentine state, finally ruled in favor of the rights of the indigenous communities of Salta, Argentina. The Court condemned Argentina for violating the right of these indigenous communities to their cultural identity, a healthy environment, and adequate food and water. The Court ordered specific action in Argentina for the restitution of those rights, including urgently needed access to food and water, reforestation and the recovery of indigenous culture. Lhaka Honhat is a landmark judgment for the IACtHR sets a precedent concerning the direct justiciability of Article 26 of the American Convention on Human Rights (ACHR). This is the first ruling by this Court to independently analyze the human right to a healthy environment. “Lhaka Honhat” establishes clearer rules for State actions concerning the principle of prevention of environmental damage caused by private individuals and establishes guidelines for restitution and compensation for the violation of indigenous (collective) rights when their natural resources are affected. A more comprehensive reading of the scope of protection under Article 26 in future court cases is likely.

This article focuses on the role and potential of the un Committee on the Rights of the Child with regard to the prevention of statelessness at birth by looking to what extent this topic has been addressed and how this can be improved. It discusses what obligations follow from the Convention on the Rights of the Child (crc) with regard to the prevention of statelessness, such as the right to acquire a nationality and birth registration (article 7, crc). In addition, its monitoring framework is assessed, inter alia, by analysing 419 Concluding Observations of the crc Committee. On the basis of identified gaps, it provides several recommendations, including a designed new general comment.