Browsing Procedural Law by Subject "Human rights"

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Autonomous weapons in armed conflict and the right to a dignified life : an African perspective

Heyns, C.H. (Christof H.) (Routledge, 2017-04-11)

Autonomous weapons are weapons that, once activated, can without further human intervention select and engage targets. This raises the possibility that computers will determine whether people will live or die. The ...
Jan Christian Smuts (1870–1950) in context : an answer to Mazower and Morefield

Gravett, W.H. (Willem) (Routledge, 2017)

This article engages with the recent scholarship of Mark Mazower and Jeanne Morefield regarding the South African and Commonwealth statesman Jan Christian Smuts (1870–1950), and in particular with their contention that ...
The Smutsian concept of 'human rights'

Gravett, W.H. (Willem) (Taylor and Francis, 2016-12)

As the historian, Mark Mazower, illustrates in No Enchanted Palace (2009), the origins of human rights standards are not as pristine and pure as humankind generally would like to believe. Mazower raises the question of the ...
“To save succeeding generations from the scourge of war” : Jan Smuts and the ideological foundations of the United Nations

Heyns, C.H. (Christof H.); Gravett, W.H. (Willem) (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017)

The story of the founding of the United Nations reflects its complicated ideological foundations. Jan Smuts, who wrote the words “human rights” into the Charter, was also the premier of white-ruled South Africa. ...

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