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Criminal Liability of Cooperations for Trafficking in Human Beings for Labour Exploitation

(c) Global Policy Volume 8, Issue 4, November 2017

Book: Criminal Liability of Cooperations for Trafficking in Human Beings for Labour Exploitation

Authors: Planitzer, Julia; Katona, Nora

Global Policy Verlag, 2017

Julia Planitzer and Nora Katona have published their paper on “Criminal Liability of Cooperations for Trafficking in Human Beings for Labour Exploitation” in the November issue of Global Policy.

The paper holds that legal instruments at the European level, such as the Council of Europe Convention on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings, clearly define that States have an obligation to establish corporate liability for trafficking in human beings (THB). However, upon closer look at national legislation in Europe, one recognises that the norms within this framework are not being enforced to their fullest extent.

Preventive human rights monitoring in child and adolescent psychiatry and welfare institutions

Neuropsychiatrie 2/17

In their article, Ernst Berger and Caroline Paar offer an overview of the Austrian legal framework regarding monitoring visits to psychiatric hospitals or residential homes/groups for children and juveniles supervised by youth welfare services.

Under OPCAT, six commissions has been assigned with the mandate to visit places of detention as a preventive mechanism against torture and other forms of ill-treatment – to that effect, this includes the facilities mentioned above. The Authors discuss key issues of the monitoring process as well as the commission´s findings and recommendations.

Open access: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40211-017-0244-z (in German only)

Buch: Preventive human rights monitoring in child and adolescent psychiatry and welfare institutions
Autor_innen: Paar, Caroline; Berger, Ernst
Springer Verlag, 2017

European Yearbook on Human Rights 2017

European Yearbook on Human Rights 2017

With growing populism and further backlash against human rights defenders, 2016 saw a year of growing human rights challenges. Across 33 contributions in five sections, the European Yearbook on Human Rights 2017 explains and contextualizes key developments in human rights in the past year. With special sections dedicated to each of the three main organizations charged with securing human rights in Europe (EU, Council of Europe and OSCE), as well as a section on cross-cutting issues, the Yearbook provides much-needed analysis and insightful commentary.

Veröffentlichung der Studie zum Prinzip des gegenseitigen Vertrauens und der Prävention von unmenschlicher Behandlung in der EU: die Rolle von justizieller Zusammenarbeit und Nationalen Präventionsmechanismen

The Future of Mutual Trust and the Prevention of Ill-treatment – Judicial cooperation and the Engagement of National Preventive Mechanisms

On the 14th March 2017, the HUDI team at the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Human Rights, in conjunction with the Academy of European Law (ERA) in Trier completed a study entitled ‘The Future of Mutual Trust and the Prevention of Ill-treatment - Judicial cooperation and the Engagement of National Preventive Mechanisms.’

Human Rights in Business - Removal of Barriers to Access to Justice in the European Union

Human Rights in Business - Removal of Barriers to Access to Justice in the European Union

The EU-funded research project 'Human Rights in Business' explored judicial and non-judicial remedies within the EU to hold companies domiciled in a Member State liable for human rights violations for which they or their subcontractors are responsible, wherever the damage might have occurred. The project team formulated answers to the question how parties concerned by human rights violations, may they directly or indirectly be caused by corporate actions, are able to receive judicial remedy and compensation.

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