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Overlegalizing Silences: Human Rights and Nonstate Actors

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2017

Robert McCorquodale*
Affiliation:
University of Nottingham, United Kingdom

Abstract

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Type
Overlegalizing Human Rights
Copyright
Copyright © American Society of International Law 2002

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References

1 E.g., Ergi v. Turkey, 1998-IV Eur. Ct. H.R. 1751; Timurtas v. Turkey, App. 23531/94, (Eur. Ct. H.R. June 13, 2000), available at <http://www.ehcr.coe.int/eng.>.

2 A v. UK, 27 Eur. H.R. Rep. 611 (1999).

3 Committee on Economic Social and Cultural Rights, General Comment 4 on the Right to Housing, especially para 19.

4 Human Rights Committee General Comment 20 on the Prohibition against Torture and other Cruel, Inhumane or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, at para. 2.

5 McCorquodale, R. & Forgia, R. La, Taking off the Blindfolds: Torture and Non-State Actors, 1 Hum. Rts. L. Rev. 169 (2001)Google Scholar.

6 Sadiq Shek Elmi v. Australia, 7 Int’l H.R. Rep. 603, para. 6.5 (2000).

7 Otto, Dianne, Rethinking Universab: Opening Transformative Possibilities in International Human Rights Law, 18 Aust’l Y.B. Int’l L. 1 (1997)Google Scholar.

8 Philip Allott, Eunomia 288 (1990).

9 McCann v. United Kingdom, 21 Eur. H.R. Rep. 97 (particularly para. 213) (1995).