Islamic Studies on Human Rights and Democracy
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Barriers to Immigrant Defendants’ Access to Justice during the Prosecution Phase in Iranian Criminal Justice System
(Research Center for Human Rights, Peace and Democracy, 2019-06-01)Access to justice consists of equal enjoyment and fulfillment of all members of society, especially those potentially, deprived of rights e.g. vulnerable groups, from high quality legal services, access to judicial ...
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“Legal Capacity” Under the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: In Support of Supported Decision-Making
(Research Center for Human Rights, Peace and Democracy, 2019-06-01)The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), which entered into force in 2008, has been ratified or acceded to by 183 countries. The author examines the elusive juridical notion of “legal ...
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Supporting Measures for Witnesses, the Informed, Victims in Organized Crimes
(Research Center for Human Rights, Peace and Democracy, 2019-06-01)The protection of witnesses, both from the perspective of individual rights and from the perspective of public good and social expediency, has always been the focus of legal schools because witnesses and the informed either ...
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A Review on the Book of Islam and Human Rights in Practice: Perspectives across the Ummah by Hossein Mir Mohammad Sadeghi
(Research Center for Human Rights, Peace and Democracy, 2019-01-01)
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The Role and Place of Public Opinion on the Death Penalty for Drug Crimes in Iranian Criminal Law by Behzad Razavifard and Mehraban Bolourian
(Research Center for Human Rights, Peace and Democracy, 2019-01-01)Public opinion is regarded as one of the main factors determining the severity of actions taken by the judiciary towards criminals. Its role is also being emphasized in the criminal policy, either criminalization, penalization ...
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Best Interests of the Child’s Status in the Iranian Legal System and the Precedent by Maryam Ghanizade Bafghi
(Research Center for Human Rights, Peace and Democracy, 2019-01-01)Although the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), which was ratified by the Iranian parliament in March 1994, had a paramount role in considering children's interests, the notion of the Best Interest of the Child ...
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The Situation of Human Rights in Iran Based on Documents of Human Rights Council by Majid Bozorgmehri
(Research Center for Human Rights, Peace and Democracy, 2019-01-01)In an inclusive examination of documents and basic principles of international cooperation, one might find that the improvement of human rights in a given country takes place as a result of several underlying measures such ...
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Protecting Victims of Terrorism as a Social Concern: With a View to International and Regional Developments by Mehrdad Rayejian Asli
(Research Center for Human Rights, Peace and Democracy, 2019-01-01)Terrorism is one of the most serious phenomena of concern to many countries as well as to the international community as a whole at least during last decades. In the meanwhile of its several characteristics, including the ...
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The Typology of the Reaction of Islamic Government to Political Crimes by Ghassem Mohammadi
(Research Center for Human Rights, Peace and Democracy, 2019-01-01)Political crime is regarded to be a recent term introduced in Iran simultaneously with the Constitutional Revolution (Mashrooteh). Despite the fact that the duty to define and the determination of its instances ...
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The Islamic Concept of Political Crime and the Jury in Iran by Hossein Mehrpour
(Research Center for Human Rights, Peace and Democracy, 2019-01-01)Prior to the Bill Defining ‘Political Crimes', passed on January 24, 2016 by the Islamic Consultative Assembly (Iran's Parliament), the term "political offenses" was never defined in Iran legal sphere, as a jurisdiction ...
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The Emergence of Political Crime Concept by Mohammad Ali Ardebili
(Research Center for Human Rights, Peace and Democracy, 2019-01-01)At the early stages of the formation of human developed societies, penal reactions to political crimes were mainly within the protection sphere provided for the sovereign as the first representation of public sovereignty. ...
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Editorial by Professor Hossein Mir Mohammad Sadeghi
(Research Center for Human Rights, Peace and Democracy, 2019-01-01)
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Protecting Religious Diversity for Building Peace and Preventing Violence by: Janet Blake
(Research Center for Human Rights, Peace and Democracy, 2017-01-01)This article seeks to take a broadly human rights-based perspective to the question of the role that religion can play in building peace, preventing violence and reaching reconciliation in post-conflict situations. It takes ...
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The Metaphysics of Violence and Nihilism by: Nader El-Bizri
(Research Center for Human Rights, Peace and Democracy, 2017-01-01)The metaphysical essence of nihilism embodies a radical devaluing of reality and a depreciation of life in being ontologically fixated on non-being and at times appealing to positivistic scientism to flatten existence and ...
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The Metaphysics of Violence: Comparative Reflections on the Thought of René Girard and Mahatma Gandhi by: Edward J. Alam
(Research Center for Human Rights, Peace and Democracy, 2017-01-01)This is not an essay on the acts of violence, but on violence per se. The purpose is to expose violence for what it is in its essence, so as to renounce it, and thus make room for genuine peace. It is widely ...
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Varieties of Violence by: Hossein Mir Mohammad Sadeghi
(Research Center for Human Rights, Peace and Democracy, 2017-01-01)Violence is a primordial phenomenon dating back to the time when Adam and his sons resided on the Earth. As in all former eras, the twenty first century also is the eye witness of the bitter consequences of the dark side ...
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Challenges and Opportunities of Protecting Iran's Cultural Heritage: Uncoordinated Movement towards Environmental Sustainability by Sousan Cheraghchi
(Research Center for Human Rights, Peace and Democracy, 2018-05-01)From the earliest days of their existence, humans have had close interaction with the natural environment surrounding them, in order to satisfy their survival and reproductive needs as well as their mental and cultural ...
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Role of Local Knowledge in Nature Conservation and Restoration: Experience of GEF SGP UNDP in I.R. Iran by Laleh Daraie
(Research Center for Human Rights, Peace and Democracy, 2018-05-01)With a civilization that is thousands of years old, culture and nature have formed close linkages in Iran that are more complex than commonly recognized by mainstream environmental institutions and programmes. Cultural ...
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Cultural Landscapes Significant to Indigenous Peoples by James A.R. Nafziger
(Research Center for Human Rights, Peace and Democracy, 2018-05-01)The core concept of “cultural landscapes" is a tool that has helped shape research agendas and policy in several disciplines. These include, for example, archaeology, anthropology, cultural heritage law, economic development ...
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Indigenous Peoples, Intangible Cultural Heritage and Environmental Sustainability by Julian Burger
(Research Center for Human Rights, Peace and Democracy, 2018-05-01)This paper looks at what the concept of intangible cultural heritage means for indigenous peoples. It will consider how that heritage has been and continues to be appropriated, used without consent, commoditised or profaned. ...
