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Heiner Bielefeldt “Sources of Solidarity : A Short Introduction to the Foundations of Human Rights”

Aug 29th, 2022 | By NMRZ

The book “Sources of Solidarity” offers a profound introduction to the foundations of human rights. The author Heiner Bielefeldt is member of the NMRZ and chair of human rights and human rights politics at the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg.

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The Struggle against Torture in Italy – The Failure of the Italian Law

by Gaia Hefti Torture is considered to be the most common human rights violation in today's modern world, not only in underdeveloped and/or authoritarian countries, but also in long-established democracies with strict laws about the topic (Goodhart 2016). In 1948, with the prohibition of torture included in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR),…

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