Doctrines about the rights of persons in international and regional law: non-refoulement, the margin of appreciation, derogation in emergencies, the Martens clause for the laws of war, human rights law as a field, and the rights traditions of Ubuntu and of Islamic criminal law that are compared with them. A doctrine belongs here when its cited article describes a human rights or humanitarian rule. It excludes inter-state doctrines.
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International human rights law (Wikipedia)
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International human rights law (IHRL) is the body of international law designed to promote human rights on social, regional, and domestic levels.
Margin of Appreciation (Wikipedia)
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The margin of appreciation (or margin of state discretion) is a legal doctrine with a wide scope in international human rights law.
Martens Clause (Wikipedia)
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The Martens Clause (pronounced /mar'tɛnz/) is an early international law concept first introduced into the preamble of the 1899 Hague Convention II, Laws and Customs of War on Land.
Non-Refoulement (Wikipedia)
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Non-refoulement () is a fundamental principle of international law anchored in the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees that forbids a country from deporting ("refoulement") any person to any country in which their "life or freedom would be threatened" on account of "race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or political opinion".
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