Responsibility for basic and human rights following the withdrawal from Afghanistan
On Germany’s duty to protect particularly vulnerable Afghans
This paper demonstrates the extent to which Germany has a duty to protect the basic and human rights of people in Afghanistan as a consequence of the international military mission and the withdrawal of international troops. This duty is about protecting people who are in physical and mortal danger. It stems from the right to life and physical integrity enshrined in Germany’s Basic Law and in human rights treaties.
The latest developments since end of February, when thousands of people arrived at the Greek-Turkish border and tried to reach the EU, provoked a questioning of fundamental international refugee and human rights law and longstanding problems of the Common…
Giving birth to the Human Rights Council (HRC) in 2006 via its Resolution 60/251, the UN General Assembly (UNGA) already determined to review the functions and the work of the HRC after five years, that is, in 2011. The review process had already started in…
This handbook examines areas of cooperation between United Nations human rights treaty bodies and national human rights institutions. A review of a broad range of options for complementary activities between monitoring institutions at the national and the…
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