Syftet med uppsatsen är att utreda hur rätten till liv har ett samband med tvångsförsvinnande enligt den Inter-Amerikanska Domstolen om Mänskliga Rättigheter. För att uppnå uppsatsens syfte genomförs en rättsutredning kring gällande rätt, där en rättsdogmatisk metod och fallstudie applicerats. Uppsatsen kommer vidare att analyseras mot bakgrund av en rättsvetenskaplig teori, där relevant rättspraxis som den Inter-Amerikanska Domstolen om Mänskliga Rättigheter bemött samt en kortfattad genomgång av kontexters påverkan. Under utredningen av de konventionella källorna finns vissa krav för att uppfylla om en stat kan hållas ansvarig. Utifrån det och med de grova mänskliga rättighets kränkningarna staten utfärdat i åtanke, är bevisbördan och statsansvar av stor relevans för att klargöra sambandet mellan rättigheten och handlingen. Uppsatsen avslutas med att konkludera att det råder brister i hur den Inter-Amerikanska Domstolen om Mänskliga Rättigheter arbetar mot att förvara och skydda Mänskliga Rättigheter i fall som berör tvångsförsvinnande. / The aim of this paper is to evaluate how the right to life has a connection with the forced disappearance of persons, according to the Inter-American Court on Human Rights. In order to reach this purpose, a legal dogmatic approach and a case study is used, in the light of a legal theory. The research concerns relevant cases that the Inter-American Court on Human Rights has been confronted with, and, to clarify the contextual importance, a brief explanation on the surroundings is provided. With the grave human rights violations committed by State authorities in mind, the thesis shows that the standard of proof, and principle of state responsibility, becomes of importance, in order to be able to determine whether the right to life is violated in cases of forced disappearance. The essay will conclude that the issue prevails defectiveness in relation to preventing and protecting human rights in cases of forced disappearance of persons.

Since humans have existed on Earth, the environment has been one of the primary resources contributing to humans' ability to live life adequately. Pollution has not only destroyed natural life, but it has also diminished humans' right to life. The United Nations 1966 International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) guarantees "every human being has the inherent right to life," but how can one exercise this right in an environment that is degrading through pollution? This is the basis of which this thesis is surrounded; the issue of environmental pollution hindering humans' right to life. Thus, this thesis aims to show how legal action can be taken under the substantive right to life when environmental pollution occurs and negatively impacts humans and their surroundings. Specifically, this thesis shows how the right to life has been used in courts around the world through three primary approaches – State Constitution approach, Regional Treaty approach, and Blended approach – when environmental pollution has occurred. The different approaches will show different ways a court can come to the conclusion that there has been a violation of the right to life in the occurrence of environmental pollution. Through a comparative-analysis of the different approaches, this thesis presents yet another way to protect not only the environment, but also the rights of humans who have been negatively affected by environmental pollution.

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"Mémoire présenté à la faculté des études supérieures en vue de l'obtention du grade de Maîtrise en droit (LL.M.)". Ce mémoire a été accepté à l'unanimité et classé parmi les 10% des mémoires de la discipline. / À la suite d'attaques terroristes massives est apparue une motivation féroce qui risque d'être manipulée pour justifier des excès de force. Voulant prévenir des attaques armées contre leurs intérêts, certains États ont adopté des politiques de « tuerie ciblée » pour éliminer de façon permanente des terroristes en sol étranger qui menacent leur sécurité. II est pourtant illégal de tuer des individus en l'absence de conflits armes sans égard au droit à la vie. La présente recherche tient à déterminer si, en vertu du droit international, des États peuvent neutraliser par force des individus dangereux ou bien venir au secours d' otages en sol etranger. En étudiant l'article 51 de la Charte des Nations Unies, un certain nombre de conclusions sont apparues, notamment que des opérations pour « arrêter ou neutraliser » ne peuvent avoir lieu que dans des États qui supportent des terroristes ou qui restent indifférents face à leur présence, et que I'expression « guerre contre Ie terrorisme » ne peut permettre des «tueries ciblées » sans avoir à considérer les droits à la vie et à la légitime défense. Puisque toute division entre les membres de la communauté internationale peut venir limiter la prévention d'attaques, le fait que la coopération entre les États ayant abolis la peine de mort et ceux ayant recours aux « tueries ciblées » puissent en souffiir fait l'objet de cet ouvrage. Ladite recherche conclue que l'utilisation de « tueries ciblées » en dehors du contexte de conflits armés ne peut être permis qu'en dernière mesure lorsque réellement nécessaire pour prévenir des attaques armées et protéger la vie. / From the ashes of devastating acts of terrorism has arIsen a resolve so powerful that measures of counterterrorism risk being manipulated by states to justify excess. In an attempt to prevent armed attacks against their interests, a number of states have adopted policies of targeted killing to permanently incapacitate terrorists on foreign soil. The intentional killing of suspected offenders, however, cannot be lawfully carried-out by states in the absence of armed conflict without regard for the right to life. The following research attempts to determine whether it is permissible for nations to use force on foreign soil to . incapacitate dangerous individuals or rescue hostages under international law. By studying article 51 selfdefense of the United Nations charter, a number of conclusions are asserted, namely that operations to "arrest or neutralise" can only be carried-out in states that support terrorists or are complacent to their presence, and that declaring "war on terrorism" cannot allow governments to kill suspected terrorists in countries where there is no war, except in a manner that is reconcilable with the rights to life and selfdefense. Since division among members of the international community may ultimately diminish their ability to collectively suppress international terrorism, the potential for hindered cooperation between abolitionist states and those that carry-out targeted killings is also addressed. The current research concludes that targeted killings can only be justified outside the context of armed conflict when they are truly necessary as a last resort to prevent armed attacks and save lives.

The aim of this thesis is to define, what is the position of right to life in the system of protection of human rights and whether is the death penalty a justifiable institute in international human rights law. The thesis focuses on the death penalty and its history in connection with the right to life as an inherent human right. It explores the conventions, protocols and resolutions that are related to the matter. The thesis is divided into seven chapters, whereas first of them is introduction, where the author asks questions about vindicability of the capital punishment. That is followed by a brief history of the death penalty and explanation of the purpose of the punishment. Following chapter looks into a view of international society on the death penalty, summing up views of international governmental organizations, as well as non- governmental. Fundamental part of the thesis is a chapter disserting on the right to life, its history, where we can find right to life in international law, interpretation of right to life and case law. Last chapter deals with an issue of a crime as an act of forfeiting the right to life. The analysis consists of criticizing the conclusions made in the course of the thesis and propositions of further possibilities.

The diploma thesis deals with the selected aspects of the dilemma of the basic human right according to Declaration of Basic Rights, paragraph 6. It focuses mainly on controversial themes such as euthanasia, abortion and death penalty. It provides readers with the definition of the conflict of these three perspectives with breaking the right to life. It shows historical development of the enactment in the Czech Republic and also in the international context. Last but not least, it describes the attitude of selected states (namely Germany, USA and China) to the solution of conflict relations within this area. The attitude of other states is foreshadowed in terms of euthanasia and abortion.

Title: The right to life guaranteed by the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms Author: Simona Divoká Department: Department of international law Supervisor: prof. JUDr. Pavel Šturma, DrSc. Abstract: The thesis is mainly focused on the interpretation of the article 2 of the Convention which guarantees one of the most important human rights, the right to life. In the first part of the thesis I deal with the European Convention on Human Rights, especially its aplication to be clear when the violation of the Convention is possible. Then I concentrate on the functioning of European Court of Human Rights which was constituted for the purpose to execute the control of compliance with rights and liberties guaranteed by the Convention and Additional Protocols to the Convention which contracting states obligate to fulfill. Then I handle the interpretation of the article 2 of the Convention and I try to describe with the help of judicature of the Court which obligations must be fulfilled by the contracting states and how the contracting states must behave to comply with the Convention. Substantive and procedural obligations give rise to contracting states. These obligations can be divided into positive and negative obligations. I continuously describe these...

The aim of this thesis is to clarify the concept of the right to life in the legislative in the Czech Republic and in abroad with a comparison with its unnatural end, while abortion and euthanasia. This work is primarily devoted to law regulation of these institutes, but also covers other aspects such as religion, philosophy and science. It is designed so that each and every chapter is in its introductory section devoted to the formulation of the topic, the historical development in the Czech Republic but also abroad, it introduces the possible procedures and attitudes, it mentions for example and briefly compares similar institutes. Other parts of the diploma deal with legislation whether the right to life, abortion or euthanasia, provides comparison of domestic legislation with internationals. In light of the judgments of the European Court of Human Rights points the views and attitudes on the subject at the international level. The final section is then evaluated core issues especially from the standpoint of law.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-26T20:28:53Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Flavio Luiz Teixeira Junior.pdf: 1201306 bytes, checksum: 49a74139d58f63cf11a035d20b548b72 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009-04-15 / This work aims to present that, in the brazilian law, the unborn is human person since the conception, owning rights originated of his personality, althought the most important is the fundamental right to life. The subject matter involving this right to life originates of the respect to dignity of the human person value, which runs the principle of human life, inserted in the Federal Constitution, but also incorporated by the international conventions that the Brazil is signatary, and that influences all the brazilian juridic ordenament. As the right is coherence and uniformity, it presents that the protection of the right to life of the unborn happens as much by the civilistic optic like with the right to support recognized by doctrine and jurisprudence, and with the heatlhy development of the pregnancy, product of the total protection doctrine , as by the penal optic, with the tipification of the offense of the abortion. This protection happens even though the seed of relativization of this right to life, like in the judgment of the constitutionality of using human embryo as a source of steam cell, by divergent interpretations of legal texts, or by the appeal for the legalization of the eugenic abortion / O presente trabalho objetiva demonstrar que, no direito brasileiro, o nascituro é pessoa humana desde a concepção, possuindo direitos decorrentes de sua personalidade, sendo que o mais importante é o fundamental direito à vida. A temática envolvendo este direito à vida se origina do valor da dignidade da pessoa humana, do qual decorre o princípio do respeito à vida humana, inserido na Constituição Federal, mas também assimilado dos tratados internacionais que o Brasil é signatário, e que influencia todo o ordenamento jurídico brasileiro. Como o direito é coerência e uniformidade, demonstra-se que a proteção ao direito à vida do nascituro ocorre tanto sob a ótica civilista como com o direito aos alimentos reconhecido pela doutrina e jurisprudência, e com o desenvolvimento sadio na gravidez, produto da doutrina da proteção integral , quanto sob a ótica penal, com a tipificação do delito de aborto. Essa proteção existe mesmo frente à semente de relativização deste direito à vida, como no julgamento da constitucionalidade do uso de embriões humanos como fonte de células-tronco, por interpretações divergentes dos textos legais, ou pelo apelo para a legalização do aborto eugênico

Made available in DSpace on 2016-03-22T17:26:38Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Gilmara Timm _Dissetacao.pdf: 922281 bytes, checksum: eac803a6e2f40859b5acec5268b2b50a (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011-12-15 / The transplant activity is considered as one of the most important medical innovations of this century, attracting more media attention and public opinion than other technologies or therapeutic ways. A possible explanation is that the donation-transplant process, beyond technical aspects, it has ethical, legal and moral implications. According to health policy we see the government as main state agent, not only for defining the legislation to be applied, but also in relation to requiring from the hospital institutions the application of the legislation regarded to the topic, making countries of the same continent show different indexes in relation to donations and transplants. For developing this study was applied the methodology of a qualitative research, through documental methodology, as well as descriptive and comparative, with Dialectical Criticism approach with the aim of analyzing the Donation and Transplants Policies of Brazil and Uruguay, searching to identify their similarities and differences. Data collecting were carried out from Brazilian and Uruguayan Legislation, as well as from administrative rules and resolutions related to organ donations and transplants of these countries. The documents used were of public domain published on official governmental websites of these countries. The systematized data were analyzed from the content analysis technique, allowing to reveal symmetries and asymmetries in the Brazilian and Uruguayan legislations and to identify limiting aspects in the donation of organs and transplants process in these countries, through pre-established categories. In this study we can conclude that both countries use the criterion of death as the Death Encefálica.No Brazil organ donation is permitted while in Uruguay's donation is presumed. The diagnosis of ME is more succinct in Uruguay than in Brazil. In Brazil there are easier to donate an organ to a living relative. Both countries exempt the requirement for judicial authorization in the case of living donation to a spouse, Brazil extends the exemption for the spouse, while the Uruguayan law is silent in this regard. In Brazil, the family interview is an essential part in the donation process. In Uruguay, the family interview will only occur if the deceased was not express in life the desire to donate or not. In both countries there is a social control in relation to the waiting list for an organ and tissue. Both countries are characterized with regard to crimes transplants as crimes against life and they bring in their penal legislation types incriminating against professionals and health institutions. Both countries seek to meet assistencialmente the giver and receiver. Finally, it is observed that this study is a snip of a bigger Health Care Research Program in the Mercosur, coordinated by Professor Dr. Vera Maria Ribeiro Nogueira / A atividade de transplante é considerada como um dos mais importantes avanços médicos deste século, exercendo uma atração na imprensa e na opinião pública maior do que outras tecnologias ou formas terapêuticas. Uma possível explicação para este fato é que o processo doação-transplante, além dos aspectos técnicos, tem implicações éticas, morais e legais. Nessa política de saúde vemos como agente principal o Estado, tanto no momento de definir a legislação a ser aplicada, como também no que tange a cobrar das instituições hospitalares o cumprimento da legislação atinente ao tema, o que faz com que países de um mesmo continente apresentem índices muito diferenciados em relação à doação e transplantes. Para o desenvolvimento deste estudo foi aplicado o método de uma pesquisa qualitativa, através de uma metodologia documental, descritiva e comparativa, com abordagem Dialético-Crítica, onde se pretendeu analisar as Políticas de Doação e Transplantes do Brasil e do Uruguai, buscando identificar suas semelhanças e diferenças. A coleta de dados se deu a partir das legislações do Brasil e do Uruguai, bem como em portarias e resoluções em matéria de doação de órgãos e transplantes desses países. Os documentos que subsidiaram a análise foram de domínio público, publicados em sites oficiais dos governos desses países. Os dados sistematizados foram analisados a partir da técnica de análise de conteúdo, permitindo desvelar simetrias e assimetrias nas legislações do Brasil e do Uruguai e identificar aspectos limitadores do processo de Doação de Órgãos e Transplantes nesses países, mediante categorias pré-estabelecidas. Neste estudo pode-se concluir que ambos os países utilizam o critério de morte como sendo o da Morte Encefálica.No Brasil a doação de órgãos é consentida enquanto que no Uruguai é doação é presumida. O diagnóstico de ME é mais sucinto no Uruguai do que no Brasil. No Brasil há maior facilidade de se doar um órgão em vida para um parente. Ambos países dispensam a exigência de autorização judicial em se tratando de doação em vida para cônjuge, o Brasil estende a dispensa para o companheiro, enquanto que a lei Uruguaia é omissa nesse aspecto. No Brasil a entrevista familiar é parte fundamental no processo de doação. No Uruguai a entrevista familiar só irá ocorrer se o falecido não manifestar em vida o desejo ou não de doar. Em ambos os países há um controle social em relação à fila de espera por um órgão e tecido. Ambos os países caracterizam os crimes em matéria de transplantes como crimes contra a vida e ambos trazem em suas legislações tipos penais incriminadores em relação aos profissionais e instituições de saúde. Ambos os países procuram atender assistencialmente o doador e receptor. Por fim, cabe ressaltar que este estudo é um recorte de um projeto maior de Pesquisa em Atenção à Saúde no MERCOSUL, coordenado pela Profª Dra. Vera Maria Ribeiro Nogueira